Sandra Navar's Class Blog

On Thursday February 16th 2012, we will be holding our annual “WORMPOSIUM 2012”.

Just like real scientists, we will be sharing the results from our investigations and you invited to participate.

Thursday, February 16th 2012
Morning Sessions: 8:00am-9:00am

(Homebases presenting: Cooling, Navar, Powell, MacLachlan)

Afternoon Sessions: 11:00am-12:00pm

(Homebases presenting: Henshelwood, Elwell, Bird, Cook)

Sessions will be conducted in the science classrooms listed below.  Outside each room, a
schedule will be posted with the title of the presentation and the names of our
wonderful presenters.

Mrs.Cooling’s room (P024), Ms. Navar’s room (P029),

Ms. Powell’s room (P030) and Mr. MacLachlan’s room (P027).

Hope you can make it!

Here is another website that has a collection of MATH GAMES.  Games are organized by grade level, so you can find one that is just right for you or one that will give you a bit of a challenge.

Click here to begin the fun!

This website is exactly what it says:  a place to play cool math games.  You can search for logic, strategy, or memory games.  There are also puzzles and mazes.  Also, if you need practice on practically any math topic, there’s a link to coolmath.com, which has lessons and practice.  So start clicking and enjoy!

Click here to start the fun!

This is the graph maker we used in class.  Take a look at a pie chart that was made with this cool graph tool:

Click on the link below to access the site.  Remember to have your data ready!  

Create a Graph

This week in Science, students used keys to identify the rocks we’ve been studying this quarter.  Students matched the rock to the correct name by observing properties such as color, crystal size, grain size, and foliation.  I was so impressed by how well everyone did!

Okay Rock Stars, what are these?

**First person to correctly identify the three rocks below gets a very special pencil!!

mathfrog.ca

This site has printable resources and fun games by topic.  If you need practice, look at the Grade 4 or 5 links.  If you’re looking for a challenge (good for you!), click on the Grade 6 links.

The three types of rock are igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary.  These rocks are transformed over time.  The Rock Cycle shows all the journeys a rock might take as it transforms from one rock to another.  To learn about how each rock changes, check out website below.  You can also study some rocks and take a quiz.

Patterns are all around us, so take a moment to look around and find them.  In our second unit we will think about the following questions:

*How can patterns help us understand order in the world?

*What inferences and predictions can we make about patterns?

These are the topics that we’ll investigate in Math:

• Order of operations
• Computations: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
• Collecting and analyzing data
• Represent data using a tally, list or chart
• Create and interpret different types of graphs
• Use maximum, minimum and measures of central tendencies (mode, median, mean and range)
• Draw conclusions, compare data and make predictions
• Probability

These are the topics that we’ll investigate in Science:

• Identifying Crystals and Minerals
• Types of rocks
• Rock cycle
• Using keys to classify and identify
• Weathering
• Erosion
• Deposition

In Science we have learned the steps of the Scientific Method and have done two investigations to practice the entire process.  It is a very detailed process and will take lots of practice to master.  Students should remember to refer to their rubric and checklist along the way.

If you’d like to practice your own investigation at home (wouldn’t that be fun!), use this to help you: SciMethodRubricChecklist

http://multiplication.com/interactive_games.htm

This website has lots of games devoted to the mulitplication facts. How did you do on your multiplication facts quiz? If you haven’t checked Power School, your score is posted there.  If you want to improve, start by playing these games at least 10 minutes each day.