Weekly Assignments – May 4-8

Hello and welcome to week 5!

Weekly Assignments Chart – May 4-8

I was so glad to talk with almost all of you last week on the phone. I will be calling again this week according to the schedule. If you would like to arrange another time, please let me know.

We will have a class meeting today at 11:00 am, and again on Wednesday. I hope we have fewer technical difficulties this week!

Please click here for this week’s Weekly Assignments Chart – May 4-8. I am available to help with any assignments, and am so happy to answer questions that come up! 

Please listen to Front Desk – Chapters 3-6 by opening the PowerPoint, clicking “Slide Show” and then “From Beginning.  I hope that it works better for us this week! (Fingers crossed).If not, here is a video form:  Video Front Desk – Chapters 3-6 . After completing the reflection questions (Literacy 5.2), please listen to Chapters 7-8:Video Front Desk – Chapters 7-8 and then complete a journal reflection (Literacy 5.4)

For Literacy 5.5, refresh your memory of when to capitalize words in English, then correct the punctuation and capitalization of the paragraph posted in Teams. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knFoNtcF57A

 

Math 5.4 – Viruses, like the Coronavirus, are so small that they are invisible to the human eye. Coronavirus particles can be as small as
0.000 008 cm wide. That means they are a millionth of a centimetre! Please read pages 89 and 90 of the Math Makes Sense 6 textbook, to have a better idea of just how tiny that is! (Grade 5s, I posted photos of these pages in the assignments on Teams). Wearing masks in public can help protect from viruses, because masks filter out particles ten times smaller than viruses.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Phys Ed 5.2 – Hold a plank for as long as you can! Keep your back straight, your hands or elbows shoulder-width apart, and your gluteal muscles strong! My record is 1 minute, 47 seconds. Can you beat me?

 

 

 

What do the rock cycle and jelly beans have in common?! Watch the video for Science 5.2 to find out!

 

 

 

 

 

 

For Heart Maps or any art projects you do, send me a photo via email and I can post it on the new Gallery page of our class website! I would love to see your creations, and I’m sure others would too!

Responsibility 5.1 – Create a heart map.

Heart Mapping at Home: Meaningful, Authentic Writing

What is a heart map? A heart map is a visual map using drawing, writing, and even crafting that expresses whatever you’ve stored in your heart. There is no right or wrong way to create a heart map. A heart map can include:

• feelings
• people you love
• memories
• experiences
• places
• things
• small moments
• questions

I added a “storm cloud” section outside of my heart, for feelings I have experienced recently that I wanted to acknowledge, but not keep in my heart. You are welcome to add a section like this too, if you feel like it is right.

Responsibility 5.3 – Activities jar.  Are you dreaming up all the fun things you will do when social distancing measures are lifted? I am! Make an activities jar. Find a container (recycled pasta jar or yogurt container, for example) and fill it with all your ideas, to save for later! Alternatively, make a jar of activities you can do at home right now!

Examples of activities you can do right now: play a board game; draw a comic strip; prepare lunch for your family; watch a movie.

Examples of activities you might do after social distancing measures are lifted: have a picnic with friends; go to the movie theatre; visit grandma.

Responsibility 5.5 – Make a time capsule for this period in history. Print off the pages (or copy the ideas on your own): Time Capsule

 

 

ART 5.2 – Transmundane Tuesdays are a tradition organized by artist Carson Ellis. This artist randomly selects three cards as categories each Tuesday, and invites others to join along in creating strange and fascinating pictures following the prompts. Transmundane means existing outside of the physical or visible world, and the illustrations certainly are original! See Carson Ellis blog for more!
The prompts for this week are:

• is covered in horns and spikes
• wearing gloves
• building a house out of bricks

I can’t wait to see your creations!

ADST 5.3 Make a tabletop sports field like these “football” players on Instagram (below). Make a tabletop version of your favourite sport! Can you try soccer, hockey, or baseball, for example?

View this post on Instagram

We made paper footballs and a goalpost out of paper towel and toilet paper rolls today. We made one “field goal” thru the goalpost and hit the posts a bunch of times. Challenging but fun!!

A post shared by Josh Budinger (@dad.games) on Apr 15, 2020 at 7:18pm PDT

ART 5.4 – Paint a rock, or two, or three. I have seen collections of cheerfully-painted stones to share encouraging messages with neighbours. Go on a walk and find small stones, clean them, and decorate them with paint (please use non-toxic paint) and/or permanent markers.

 

 

 

 

When posting photos on Teams assignments, or when emailing them, please aim to show your brilliant work as clearly as possible. See the examples below of what works best!

MYSTERY MESSAGE:
Can you translate the message from ASL and French into written English? Comment on this post if you can! Click on the link to see the video: Mystery Message – May 4, 2020