This morning we started with guided reading and our new centers for the week. After guided reading we worked on our Inuit History books. We read a story about an Inuit girl named Mikissuk and then talked about the types of food people traditionally ate in the arctic. We learned that they mostly ate meat because plants don't really grow very well in the arctic even in the summer thanks to the permafrost. Some types of meat that you could hunt and eat in the arctic are: Polar bear, seal, bow head whale, caribou, and arctic char. We weren't sure about Walrus but Isla has volunteered to research that for us. We also found out that you could eat eggs from birds like the ivory gull. In the summer you might also be able to gather berries.
After recess (today was treat day!!), we had word work time. The grade 1's continued practicing the 8 words on this week's list. We practiced by writing them down three times using our neatest printing. Our goal was to lock our spelling words into our minds and to focus on forming our letters properly at the same time. The grade 2's were working on creating word chains. Each word in the chain had to include the same vowel sound.
Next, we had math. Today we checked our understanding of counting by 5's by trying some work by ourselves. We had to complete some different counting by 5's patterns to see if we could figure them out on our own. If we needed help we used our hundred's charts and worked with Ms. Boyer or Mrs. Smith if we were still unsure.
After lunch we watched a short video about salt water and Ms. Boyer and Mrs. Hamby invited some students up to do a human demonstration to show what happens when we add salt to water. Ask me to do the demonstration for you! From the demonstration and the video we learned that when the salt is added to water it stops the water molecules from being able to bond (that means stick together). We learned that salt water has to become colder before it will push past the salt and freeze anyway. After the demonstration we went to our desks to answer this question:
What is the difference between salt water and fresh water?
We had to use the learning from our last two experiments plus today's demonstration to try to come up with our answer. Ask me what I wrote.
After science we had gym and music. This is our last week of volleyball practice.
Tomorrow our helper is: Shawn
