We are finishing our unit on Rocks and Minerals by learning about erosion. Ask your child what erosion is! Ask him/her to explain ways that we can help to control erosion.
Natural erosion is good for our Earth! Ask your child why!
Ask your child how farmers help prevent erosion of their fields!
With our last quiz we have wrapped up our unit on Geometry for Term One. We have moved on to Data Management. We will be using words like data, survey,pictograph, bar graph, circle graph, line graph, title, axes, labels, key, scale, range, mode, mean.
We created some data about our favourite colours in 4M. We used this data to make a pictograph. We learned that pictographs include a specific title, axes, labels, pictures or symbols, and a key. We discovered how to find out the range! Ask your child to explain each of these terms!
Students have been learning though out this year about how to make a singular noun into a plural. Here are some of the rules we have discovered so far!
Students worked with nets to create skeletons of solids. They used lots of wonderful math language such as solids, vertices, edges, faces, prisms, pyramids.
The following is a good example of a summary of the Native Canadian Legend "Maid of the Mist". Read through it to pick out the four points above. When reading with your child, ask him/her to summarize the story focusing on these four points!
As we continue our Science unit on Rocks and Minerals, students investigated a scientific term called weathering. Ask your child what weathering means! We used sugar cubes to investigate the effects of weathering on rocks and minerals. Ask your child to retell the experiment and encourage them to use words like investigate, observations, conclusions. Ask your child what can cause weathering and how does it cause weathering.
Students created solids using marshmallows and toothpicks! Ask your child what the marshmallows in a solid represent. What do the toothpicks represent?
Students were exploring crystals today! Ask your child to explain what a crystal is! Ask them to tell you what all crystals of the same minerals have in common. Here is an example of some crystals of the mineral quartz. Today, students made some paper examples of crystals. Interestingly, we are working on solids in Math right now. Students are seeing how often learning in school is connected!
Hi, my name is Mrs. Merlo and I have been teaching for a number of years. It is a privilege to spend each and every day with such a wonderful group of children and colleagues.