Nov26

Patterns/Relationships Team Task

Use linking cubes to build 4 figures, each growing, each including the previous figure within it.

Represent these figures on a Table of Values: i.e. figure #, #yellow cubes, #green cubes, total cubes.  

Identify the relationship between figure# and #cubes.

Express relationships using algebraic rule.

Use rule to calculate any other figure# without extending table.

Follow example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-ogK0LANPs&list=UU-u4mR3_H1MzpKNHdtbrnbA




Healthy Living: Screen-Time Addiction & Sedentary Lifestyle

Save your MovieMaker project as a .wmv file  (click save project as, recommended for this project, title, windows movie video file)

Upload to St Simon YouTube channel.  Enter title, first names, description.  See current uploaded example.




Novel Study: Little Prince vs Fox, Train Switchman, Merchant, Pilot

Life becomes meaningful/serves a purpose when we establish positive and unique relationships, bonds, connections with people and things.

We cannot live a monotonous, mechanical life that lacks meaning in which we are spinning our wheels travelling no where.

We are to interact with others with an open heart not with our eyes that can't see beyond the superficial (outer layer).

Although relationships are susceptible to sadness and difficulty, they enable us to love, care, grow and ultimately make us better people.

It's suggested that as we grow, we tend to veer off path and drift about aimlessly looking for meaning, purpose, a goal.

We do not realize that true beauty lies hidden within a shell - our eyes are blind, we need to look with our hearts.  Virtues like "loyalty" are intangible, not always visible but hidden within the secret depths of a person or the "tenderness of smiling faces".

As we mature from child to adolscent to adult to senior, it's suggested that we always maintain our innocence, imagination, creativity, curiosity and wonder that is often forgotten or replaced by what we consider to be more important values. 

Nov25

have math workbook 4.4 pg.40-41 assigned yesterday completed for corrections tomorrow.

Nov24

Health/Media Literacy

Using MovieMaker, create a promotional video to raise awareness about the negative effects associated with children developing a sedentary (inactive) lifestyle in combination with a growing screen-time addiction, as per examples belows:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU_mhomdPtQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2CFhtoKd_0&list=UU-u4mR3_H1MzpKNHdtbrnbA

Nov21

Novel Study: The Little Prince

The Little Prince meets a conceited man, a drunkard, a businessman, a lamplighter and a geographer. 

He comes to know the absurdity or ridiculousness of adults.  He believes all work must serve a purpose, have meaning and be truly useful to others.  We are not be self-centred but rather caring and loving.

What is your opinion of each of these characters that he meets?

Why would the Little Prince compare grown-ups to Baobabs? What’s he trying to say?

What impression do you have of the snake?

Why do you think the inconsequential flower the Prince meets in the desert tells him that people don’t have roots and tend to drift about?

Remember to write in 1st person point of view when offering a personal opinion i.e. I feel... I think... I believe... I'm surprised by... I wonder... I can't understand why... I learned the importance of...  plus 1 supporting reason



Science Lab 5: Solutes vs Solvents (text pg.41)

A solvent, the large part of a solution, in which the solute dissolves.
i.e. sugar (solute) dissolves in hot coffee (solvent) because particles of each are strongly attracted to one another.

Purpose:  to compare how sugar (solute) dissolves in 3 different solvents - water, rubbing alcohol and oil.

Hypothesis:

1.  If I dissolve sugar (solute) in water (solvent), then I think the sugar particles with be very attracted to/somewhat attracted to/unattracted to the water particles and will dissolve quickly/somewhat quickly/not at all.

2.  If I dissolve sugar (solute) in rubbing alcohol (solvent)... same as above.

3.  If I dissolve sugar (solute) in oil (solvent)... same as above.

Observations:

Experiment                                       Rate of Dissolution
Sugar in water
Sugar in oil
Sugar in rubbing alcohol

Analysis:

Questions B & C pg.41


Patterns/Relationships/Table of Values/Sequences

NOV.20

• Complete letter to Paul Fleishman on letterhead.
• Complete inferencing theme of either Do They Know It's Christmas or Get It Together.
• If you do have the supplies at home, begin working on your Science Lab: Solutes vs Solvents to record observations and record on table.

Creative job on melted crayon art pieces:

Nov19

Begin working on Science Lab 5 using this prompt:

Copy/paste your letter to author Paul Fleishman onto e-mailed letterhead.

Save to stick ready to print.

Continue working on song lyrics theme handout for Friday.

Begin working on silhouettes for melted crayon art task, as per example:

Math textbook corrections below.  Use them to check over corresponding workbook pages:

Nov18

Language:

• Begin working on inferencing handout based on our class team tasks.  Due Friday.
• Continue revising/editing Paul Fleishman letter from our conferencing.

Math:

•  Use any 1 frequency table from Food Show data to create a graph as taught using PowerPoint "add chart" application.  Submit by end of tomorrow, as per example:

Nov.17

Sample letter.  Begin drafting, structuring your ideas.  We will continue to conference, revise and edit throughout this week.  Print on letterhead & mail-out Friday.

U4: Patterns & Relationships

Complete Figure 1-4 + Table of Values

Nov.13

Take-home independent tasks to be submitted on Monday, as discussed:

• Data management
• Geography

Copies of The Little Prince for our novel study can be accessed in many ways:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTi536xVuw4
• http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/littleprince.pdf
• https://play.google.com/store
• http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/search.jsp?Ntt=the+little+prince+antoine+de+saint+exupery

Over the weekend, I would suggest you re-read chapters 1 up to The King.

Data Management

Data was collected about detached house prices in neighborhood YYZ:

$549,900
$639,500
$599,900
$650,900
$739,900
$799,900
$699,900
$749,900
$599,900
$619,000
$689,500
$609,900
$575,000
$650,000
$659,499

-Arrange the prices in ascending order (least to greatest). 

-Identify the median (middle) price.

-Identify the range (difference between the highest and lowest price).

-Calculate the mean (average) price.

 Data was collected about 10,000 people that attended the Auto Show:

Male	Female
7,500	2,500

Yearly Salary	Frequency
$25,000-$49,000	1,250
$50,000-$74,999	5,000
$75,000-$99,999	3,000
$100,000-$149,000	500
$150,000++	250

Age	Frequency
Under 18	250
19-35	2,750
36-50	5,500
50-65	1,000
65+	500

Education	Frequency
High School	1,500
College	6,500
University	2,000

Heard About Show	Frequency
TV	6,000
Radio	750
Newspaper	250
Social Media	3,000

Reason For Attending
Buy/lease a new car within next 6 months	1,500
Buy/lease a new car within next year	4,000
For pleasure as auto enthusiast	2,000
Browse new models for possible buy/lease	2,500

Owns 0 cars	500
Owns 1 car	2,750
Owns 2 cars	6,500
Owns 3+ cars	250

Based on this data, the typical person that attended the Auto Show was:

  

Data was collected at St. Simon:

The parking lot is 30m long.

A typical car is 1.40m wide.

Cars are to be parked 0.90m apart from each other.

How many cars can fit on 1 side of the lot?

Independently or with a partner, begin drafting a personal letter to Seedfolks author Paul Fleishman expressing any of the following:

• your overall opinion of his novel
• your opinion of any of his characters that stood out to you
• your opinion of any life lessons you learned from reading his novel
• any questions you wonder about

Be sure to write in the 1st person point of view, either using "I" or "we" i.e. I feel... I think... I really liked... I was moved by.... I was impressed.... etc.

We will conference next week to revise/edit/print on school letterhead to mail out.

Nov.12

Novel Study: The Little Prince

The Flower:

• she is vain, not modest/humble
• she plays the victim, fakes cough to make Little Prince feel guilty
• she's too proud, has a superior attitude, makes high-maintenance demands
• all this masks her sensitivity, insecurity and vulnerability
• she eventually expresses her feelings/love to the Prince but he doesn't know how to deal with it and leaves her since at one point he thought she wasn't truthful
• what life lessons do you think could be learned from this encounter?

The King:

• he is an absolute monarch: his authority/power has no limit
• he prides himself on giving orders that are reasonable and can be easily fulfilled
• he is absurd and lonely: he wants to make Little Prince his right-hand to be judge, jury and executioner of the rat on planet, yet continuously pardon it since its the only one they have
• what life lessons do you think could be learned from this encounter?

Little Prince

• open-minded, creative
• surprised by grown-ups that are narrow-minded, lack imagination
• he asks questions about that which is invisible or not tangible
• he is inquisitive and believes in exploring