Week Six

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Hello Everyone,

I hope you had a wonderful long weekend and you were able to get out and enjoy the sunshine.

Here are a few activities to work on this week:

Read for enjoyment. I encourage you to continue reading on Epic Books and KidsA-Z, however, I will also offer alternatives for those needing a change. Today, I would like to bring your attention to the Burnaby Public Library. For those of you who have a public library card, the BPL offers a wonderful selection of books for download. These ebooks are free and readily available. Take a look at their website for more information.

https://burnaby.overdrive.com/library/kids/collection/1081910

If you don’t have a library card yet, the BPL will issue one over the phone during it’s closure. You can find the phone number and details here:

https://www.bpl.bc.ca/borrowing/library-cards

Write a journal entry. Here is a prompt to help you get started:

Listen to the following sound recording. What do you hear? What does it make you think of? How does it make you feel? Can you make a connection to the sounds? If you can’t make a personal connection, think about something you may have read in a book or watched on a screen.

(Audio taken from, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39xoSAcsMw8 but try to listen below instead of viewing.)

If the audio doesn’t work, click here.

Please plan to write for a focused 20 minutes. You do not need to use this writing prompt if you already have a journal idea in mind. Please make sure you are using your green journal and not the response booklet. Don’t forget to start with the date.

Last week, I was sent several entries. I would like to share them with you.

Mariia enjoyed a day at the beach with her family.

Emma had fun riding her bike.

Ana spent some time on a hammock.

Bahar saw a beautiful sunset.

Camila celebrated a birthday!

Thank you all for sharing! I look forward to reading more of your entries.

Continue exploring geometric solids. Last week we focused on faces, edges and vertices. Well done to those of you who tried to calculate them yourselves using the following chart:

I have filled it in for your reference. I noticed in your responses that some of you calculated the flat surfaces and straight edges while others included the curved. Neither is incorrect. I have specified both in the answer key.

3D Shape Number of Faces Number or Edges Number of Vertices
Rectangular Pyramid 5 flat faces 8 straight edges 5 vertices
Cone 1 flat face, 1 curved surface 1 curved edge 1 vertex
Cube 6 flat faces 12 straight edges 8 vertices
Sphere 1 curved surface 0 edges 0 vertices
Triangular Prism 5 flat faces 9 straight edges 6 vertices
Cylinder 2 flat faces, 1 curved surface 2 curved edges 0 vertices

 

Today we will focus our attention on prisms.

A prism is geometric solid with the following properties:

  • It has all flat surfaces
  • It has the same shape on either end of the structure. These are called the bases.
  • The flat surfaces connected to the bases are rectangles or squares.
  • If you were to slice the shape like you would a loaf a bread, it would produce the same 2D shape over and over. These slices are also referred to as cross sections.

The following video provides several examples of geometric prisms.

You can also visit the following website for more detail and information.

https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/prisms.html

In your response booklet write the title, Prism Cross Sections. Copy down the names of the following shapes. You do not need to draw them.

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Imagine that you are slicing off one of the bases. What shape do you see? Write it down underneath the name of the shape. Here is an example.

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Square Prism

Cross section: square

Please hold on to your results. You do not need to send them in as I will post the answers next week.

Visit the music and library blogs. Both Ms. Raap and Ms. Yee have new posts on their blogs. Be sure to check them out!

https://sd41blogs.ca/raapc/

https://blogs.sd41.bc.ca/morley-library/

Visit the ELL page. In case you missed it, I posted new lessons from Ms. Simmons on Friday. Click on the ELL tab at the top of the page for more information.

I hope you are all having a wonderful week. Please remember there is no class meeting tomorrow. I will see you back here on Friday.

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