Class Blog May 21st - 31st
Last week we started building catapults for our engineering unit in Science. We used what we have learned about used leavers. We also looked back at the 7 steps of being an engineer. This helped us to remember to research catapults before we started building. Some of us even took notes and drew diagrams. After that we designed, tested and redesigned our catapults to see if they solved our problem.
In gym and Math we have been doing our class olympics. We have been using measurement to help us record our results. The first event that we did was the standing long jump and after that we did our running long jump. For both of these events we recorded our results to the nearest centimeter. Then we did a 75 m sprint. We used seconds to record our results for this event. the final events we did this week were a botchi ball shot put, where we used cm and a tennis ball throw which we recorded in meters.
We have been doing art about some of the countries that we have been researching. To represent China we did a traditional Chinese landscape. We included shading and perspective to make our picture look real. We used water colour paints which we layered to give them texture. To represent Egypt we have started to design our own Egyptian creatures. We used the heads of an animal from Egypt and put them on a human body just like one of the legends that we read in class.
In Language Arts we are reading our new class novel, The Name of This Book is Secret. We have been using strategies such as visualizing, connecting and code breaking to help us better understand the novel.
Finally, we have continued to design our slide show presentation for the countries that we have been researching. We are going to be doing a 3-5 minute presentation about our countries in front of the class and we are making a visual presentation to support our speeches. Our slides need to have pictures and words and we are even making notes to help us remember our speeches.
The starred questions are meant for the grade 4's and the non starred questions are what the grade 3 and 4's are meant to be working on this year.
Last week we started building catapults for our engineering unit in Science. We used what we have learned about used leavers. We also looked back at the 7 steps of being an engineer. This helped us to remember to research catapults before we started building. Some of us even took notes and drew diagrams. After that we designed, tested and redesigned our catapults to see if they solved our problem.In gym and Math we have been doing our class olympics. We have been using measurement to help us record our results. The first event that we did was the standing long jump and after that we did our running long jump. For both of these events we recorded our results to the nearest centimeter. Then we did a 75 m sprint. We used seconds to record our results for this event. the final events we did this week were a botchi ball shot put, where we used cm and a tennis ball throw which we recorded in meters.
We have been doing art about some of the countries that we have been researching. To represent China we did a traditional Chinese landscape. We included shading and perspective to make our picture look real. We used water colour paints which we layered to give them texture. To represent Egypt we have started to design our own Egyptian creatures. We used the heads of an animal from Egypt and put them on a human body just like one of the legends that we read in class.
In Language Arts we are reading our new class novel, The Name of This Book is Secret. We have been using strategies such as visualizing, connecting and code breaking to help us better understand the novel.Finally, we have continued to design our slide show presentation for the countries that we have been researching. We are going to be doing a 3-5 minute presentation about our countries in front of the class and we are making a visual presentation to support our speeches. Our slides need to have pictures and words and we are even making notes to help us remember our speeches.
The starred questions are meant for the grade 4's and the non starred questions are what the grade 3 and 4's are meant to be working on this year.
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