Did You Know…? The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

Today we started with our quiz on the provinces, territories, and capitals. Students did a wonderful job and many students remembered all the provinces, territories, and capitals! On Monday, we will have our last quiz on this. This quiz will be slightly different, to challenge students to demonstrate what they know. Need to practice at home? Check out the September links on the right. After, students reviewed the Great Lakes. That lead to a discussion on why so many communities are built on or around a major body of water. Students discussed the benefits such as resources (fishing, farming), access to water, and transportation options. We wanted to see if this was a pattern that continued throughout Canada. Using our knowledge of capitals, students examined a Canada map to see which capitals were near or on a body of water. What we discovered was that all the capitals were at least close to (in the case of Regina) a river, lake, or ocean. We will have to continue to explore how bodies of water impact settlement and ways of life in Canada throughout the year.

In Art we reviewed the primary, secondary, analogous, and complimentary colours that we studied last week. Then we discussed warm and cool colours. We have started a new project that we will be continuing next week. Students are using warm colours and cool colours to create contrast in their pieces. Check out some of our works in progress below!

In Science today we explored the role that the sun plays in temperature. First we examined how the movement of the Earth around the sun creates the seasons. To do so we looked at the following resource:

http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/mclass/season_simulator.html

Then we did a class experiment to discuss how the sun impacts daily temperatures. We used chart paper and a flashlight to track the “sun’s” (our flashlight’s) movement across the sky at 6:00 am, 10:00 am, 12:00 pm, 3:00 pm, and 6:00 pm. While we discovered that all of the paper was covered by the sun’s rays at 12:00 pm, we wondered why it might be warmer around 1:00-2:00 pm than it was at 12:00 pm. This lead us to discuss how the air and earth are absorbing the heat – something that we will continue to discuss next week!

Agenda:

Read 20 minutes

Language Arts – Writer’s Notebooks: Treasure Maps (Monday)

Math – pgs. 15-16 #1-5, 7, 8 (Monday)

Social – Classroom Maps  (Monday)

Terry Fox Run – Wednesday (Permission Forms needed ASAP)

Classroom Website/Twitter Permission Forms (ASAP)