STILL TIME TO SIGN UP FOR ST. JUDE'S FC.

Today's agenda:
-Read for 20 minutes
-Spelling pg 97-100
-Math worksheet [patterns with 3 attributes]
-Grade 3 spelling package
-Cursive up to pg. 91
-Workshop form
-UOI Action

No French today as Mme. Stella has conferences all day.

This morning we had PE first thing in the morning and after we wrote agendas. Then we started math. Today we looked at making patterns with three attributes. We started off reviewing attributes such as colour, shape, size, thickness, and position. Students helped me identify the core and the attributes of the patterns. They also drew the next shapes in some patterns.

After Mrs. Amra covered the rest of math while students made patterns with three attributes in partners. One partner laid down a block and then the other partner had to continue the pattern and they kept alternating. After they worked on their worksheets. 

After first lunch, we had UOI. For UOI today we looked at the different between load and forces. We started off reviewing what loads are as we recalled from the simple machines unit. We then reviewed some different forces; see the video/link here:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/lab/forces.html

After students investigated through inquiry which paper structure will hold a book up. A cylinder, square, or triangle. Before beginning we reviewed what makes a structure stable. Students tried out all three and concluded that the cylinder was the only one that could hold a math duotang. 

Hmmm something isn't right; you were supposed to use one shape but nevertheless great thinking through inquiry to make it actually work!

LOL THAT DIDN'T WORK, GREAT CAPTURE BY MISS PATRICIA.

After students worked together to build a structure out of paper to hold a math textbook; YIKES. They figured out that the structure had to be thick so using several papers, close to the table, wide at the bottom, and an appropriate shape such as a cylinder. Unfortunately, I didn't get pictures of this as my grade 6 students who I am mentoring were using my phone for an interview.

When finished we looked at different forces on buildings that effect it such as squeezing that works with compression and stretching which is tension.

Bending in which straight material becomes curved; one side comes together and the other side stretches.

Sliding which is a shear, like an earthquake in which materials slide across each other in opposite ways.

Twisting which is torsion that twists a material.

We also looked at different loads in structures which included dead weight which is the weight of the structure itself which includes the columns, beams, nuts, and bolts. 

The live weight which is objects you can move such as tables, and people.

The settlement load which is the soil beneath the building which can sink and change over time.

Temperature, earthquakes, wind, and vibrations.

After we had second lunch and recess and when we returned we prepped for our student-led conferences and we started to read the read novel study for not this UOI but the next [it's a bit longer so we're starting now]

The title is 'The Perfect Time for Pandas' 

We made predictions and read a few pages and then made some more predictions for the rest of chapter 1 since we did not finish it this afternoon.

After we got ready for home!