Zoomtastic! – Ms. Bonar

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Hello Everyone,

I hope you had a wonderful week. I have enjoyed receiving emails and touching base with some of you over the phone. I would love to get started on virtual conferences/chats and perhaps even a class meeting. In order to do this, I will need you to download the Zoom app onto your tablets. If you are on a computer, you will simply need to click a link that will be provided. You are not required to set up an account.

How it works?

1.Download the Zoom app from the app store. It looks like this:

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In the near future I will give you a meeting time. It will be emailed out or posted on the blog.
I will email you an invitation with a link and special ID and password for the meeting.
When the meeting time comes, click on the link and join by typing in the ID and password.
Chat and have fun.

We can go over the specifics once again when the time comes, but for the moment, please just try downloading the app.

Bush Beans

We will dedicate Fridays to making updates on our plant. Today we will make and record observations. This means that we will take a close look at it and write down what we notice. We will also discuss how we have cared for our plant over the last week. Please follow the directions below.

In your Response Booklet:

Write the date at the top.
Write the title, Bush Beans Update
Draw and colour a picture of what your plant looks like today even if it hasn’t changed.
Below your picture, write and underline the word, Observations.
Look closely at your plant and write down what you see. Is there a sprout? What does it look like? If there are no changes, you may state that.
Below your observations, write and underline the word, Care.
Write down all the ways you have taken care of your plant. Here are some questions to prompt your thinking:

Have you watered it? Did you put it in a safe place? Did you rotate it so the sun hits different spots? If it tipped over, how did you fix it?

You do not need to answer all of them or copy down the questions. Simply use them to help write your sentences.

Here is an example:

If you can’t read the printing, it states:

Observations

My plant has two, small, light green sprouts. One sprout is 3cm tall. The other sprout is bent over and is 2cm tall. Both sprouts have a bean shape top that has split open. Two small, delicate leaves are peaking through.

Care

I watered my plant three times this week. For most of the week, my plant was sitting in the kitchen. The windows were open and I thought it might be too cold so I moved it to the bedroom. I put it near a window and rotated it a few times to make sure the sun hit different parts of the container.

Measuring Your Sprout

If you have a sprout, try measuring it. Gently place a ruler on top of the soil.

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Use the centimeter side of your ruler. It has smaller spaces between the numbers and sometimes will have an “mm” which stand for millimeters (those are the small lines between the numbers). It looks like this:

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Record the number that the top of your sprout reaches and add a cm after it. This stands for centimeters. You now have the measurement of your sprout and can record it in your observations.

Math Minute

On Wednesday, I posted a math riddle. If you missed it, it read:

Sandra read 5 books, Deacon read 6 books and Breanna read 7 books. One book was read by all three children, but every other book was different. How many different books did the children read?

Great work to all of you who tried to solve it. The answer to this riddle is 16.

One strategy to solving word problems is to draw or sketch it out. I have included an example of how this can be done.

First I drew all three people and added their specific number of books. I gave each cover of the book a different colour or design. The only books that were coloured the same were the ones read by all three children. I coloured these books red.

I then counted all the books that were different. At the end I added one more, the red book. This brought the total to 16.

Congratulations to those of you who figured it out!

Dance Party

We have been in front of the computer for a while now. I think there is no better way to end the week than with a virtual dance party. Try follow along with the video below or make up your own moves. When done, repeat or find a new tune.