Today we began by reading a short article and having a discussion about the three types of levers. You can identify the type of lever by looking at the direction of the force\/effort and load and the position of the fulcrum. I invite students to look at home and see if they can find examples of the three types!<\/p>\n
Afterwards, students continued working on their catapult models<\/strong>, and then we did a group test session, launching marshmallows across the classroom. Congratulations to the group who had their marshmallow go the farthest! For all groups, we reviewed the engineering design process<\/strong> and reflected on what we would do differently next time. Some students have decided they enjoyed this so much they would like to continue building catapults during free choice time<\/strong> tomorrow with the supplies we have available.<\/p>\n Following recess, we went over some language arts skills to strengthen writing<\/strong>. First, we looked at some of the common symbols used when doing editing, which can be helpful when editing your own work or that of a peer student. This sheet will be kept in the unit binder as a reference. Second, we looked at transition words and phrases, which make writing flow more easily and connect ideas throughout a writing piece. For homework, students have two worksheets to finish which we began in class called Order, Order and Lost in Transition<\/strong>, for practice. We are working on writing skills to help with our TED TALK project, during which we will be writing a speech and presenting it on an idea of our choice. We watched a TED Talk by Sarah Kay today about spoken word poetry. See here for other TED videos appropriate for kids.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>Students were asked to watch one video for homework tonight.<\/p>\n Finally, we ended the day with music, finishing French quizzes, and open work time to catch up on things and organize our work binders. We also went over the fine arts rubric<\/strong> together, as I passed back some art projects. Students had the choice of taking the projects home or putting them in their black portfolios as records of our work.<\/p>\n Just a reminder to wear boots and\/or coats — the weather is getting nasty and it has been cold, so dress appropriately!<\/p>\n See you tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today we began by reading a short article and having a discussion about the three types of levers. You can identify the type of lever by looking at the direction of the force\/effort and load and the position of the fulcrum. I invite students to look at home and see if they can find examples of the three types! Afterwards,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4053,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}