Hi Everyone,
Welcome to Day 2 of Home Learning! Here are your activities for today. I hope at some point you are able to enjoy the sunshine. I know that I will be taking some time to read today out in the yard.
Mindful Morning
Today, your task is to sketch or document at least 5 things that you use in your daily routine. Take your time to observe and document or sketch your objects with lots of details.
Did you know that Canadian musician Leonard Cohen used to do this regularly as a way to practice mindfulness? Check out one of his most famous songs below. Do you recognize this song?
Language Arts
Hello, writers! Today, you will have 10 minutes to write as much as you can about the topic(s) below. Please watch the video first, set your timer, and get writing!
- Would you ever try ‘spaghetti ice-cream’? Explain why or why not.
- What is the strangest, most interesting food you have ever eaten? Describe it.
- Write a story about a food that looks like a different food (ex: a person goes to eat a chocolate cake with vanilla icing, but really it is a meatloaf with mashed potatoes). What happens?
- If you were going to ‘invent’ a new food, what would it be? How would you invent it?
Math
Today, we will continue with our investigation into the world of measurement! Your task is to draw a self portrait or an animal of your choice on the grid paper provided. You should colour your work. When drawing, you will need to use the whole square or half of the square as this will make it easier to calculate. Your picture will look like a character from Minecraft. Please see the example posted below. If you are unable to print the graph paper, you can always create your drawing on a blank piece of paper.
Once you have made your drawing, you will need to count the number of squares that make up each and every side of your drawing. Please see the example. The side of each square on the graph paper is 1 cm. Understanding this will allow us to calculate the perimeter of your drawing.
Perimeter means the distance around an object.
Look back at your drawing and count up all the sides around your person or animal. In the example, you can see that after the number of edges are added up, the perimeter was 72 cm.
***Please ignore the section to calculate the area. We will come back to this later.
