Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Morning message

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Happy Wednesday! On Monday, I asked you all to come up with a topic you want to learn more about. We will share these topics today. 

Love, 
Mrs. Manz

Calendar

Here is today's calendar square. 

Wow! How exciting! It's the letter S. We now have three letters that we know will be in our mystery word puzzle. Do you have any ideas what the mystery word will be? 

Learning activities for Wednesday

• Reading
• Watch Mrs. Manz’s video on nonfiction text features. Look at this Nonfiction Text Features chart. 
• Read (or reread) a few of the books on your topic. Make sure your books are nonfiction. If you have fiction books, put those aside in a “fun to read” pile instead of your “nonfiction book club” pile. 
• For each book, look closely for nonfiction text features. On your book list from Monday make a note about what text features that book has. 

• Writing
• Choose one of the nonfiction text features. Make your own example of that text feature about your topic.

• Math - Addition Practice Wednesday
• Please make and solve 8,  2 number addition equations using numbers between 6 and 14.  Be sure to challenge yourself! example - 6+13=___)
• Please solve these 3 number addition equations. Tip: remember to look for easy number matches to add first!
• 4+8+6=______
• 7+1+9=______
• 7+4+3=_____  
• Please create 3 more equations to solve yourself. Be sure to challenge yourself!  
• Solve these equations:
• 3 +10=_______
• 40+10=_______
• 23+10=_______
• Make 3 other addition equations using 10 and another number and solve them.  Challenge yourself.

• Science-Engineering Process - What is the Question or Problem; Imagine a solution; Plan your design; Create your design; Test it; Improve It
• Watch Mr. Neil’s introduction to this activity here Which Falls Faster?
• Materials:  Notebook paper 
• What to do: Crumple a piece of notebook paper into a ball. Drop it at the same time as you drop a flat sheet of notebook paper. Which piece of paper takes longer to fall? 
• How it works: There is more air pressing on the surface of the flat piece of paper than on the surface of the paper ball. The crumpled up ball has less air to push out of the way as it falls than the flat piece of paper does. 
• More science fun: Do the experiment with different sizes and shapes of paper sheets and paper balls. Which sizes and shapes fall fastest? Which falls slowest?

• Social Studies
• Each day, notice the weather and fill it in on the weather graph.