Pulleys!

Bill Nye - Simple Machines

Pictographs

Weights

T-Shirt - 62 g
cereal - 50 g
sweatshirt - 62 g
pasta dinner - 200 g
granola bars 170 g
crackers - 220 g
apples - 215 g
seeds and nuts - 75 g
rice - 165 g
peanut butter - 250 g
hot dogs - 450 g
cold pack - 345 g
towel - 378 g
can of milk - 625 g
hot dog buns - 675 g
can of soup - 640 g
loaf of bread - 640 g
can of beans - 680 g
1 Litre of water - 1 kg

Reading Party Update

As of this morning, we have 3387 minutes towards our reading party in December. Remember: we must read a combined total of 15000 minutes to have the party, and each of you needs to read at least 6 hours to get your invite! Let's finish the year strong! You don't have to read fast, you just need to read!

Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox

Sometimes I feel like a (insert animal here),
Adjective and Adjective. <-- (Must describe the animal)
I (Description of what your animal does)
and (what that means as a human or what you do).

Cinquain Poems

Line A: One vague or general one-word subject or topic
Line B: Two vivid adjectives that describe the topic
Line C: Three interesting -ing action verbs that fit the topic
Line D: Four-word phrase that captures feeling about the topic
Line E: A very specific term that explains Line A

Examples:

Planet

Graceful, ringed

Spinning, whirling, twirling

Dances with neighbour Jupiter

Saturn

Insect

Hidden, hungry

Preening, searching, stalking

Waits as if praying

Mantis

Word Pair Ideas: General topic / specific topic

• bird/parrot (or crow, canary, dove)
• fruit/apple (or pear, banana, watermelon, peach, etc.)
• season/spring (or summer, fall, autumn, winter)
• winter/January (or spring / April, summer / July, autumn / October)
• candy/jawbreaker (or Snickers, jelly beans, liquorice)
• storm/tornado (or hurricane, blizzard, squall)
• water/river (or ocean, lake, stream, creek)
• grandparent/Nana (or Grandma, Papa, Pops)

STEPS:

1. Pick out your most descriptive words from your brainstorming and put your cinquain together.
2. Your cinquain should have 5 lines and the finished poem should only have 11 words.
3. When you are satisfied, recopy the poem onto clean notebook paper.
4. Centre your cinquain on the paper.
5. Begin each line with a capital letter, and remember your commas. Do not use ending punctuation.
6. When finished, double-check for concreteness!

Bill Nye Erosion

Please remember that your science booklet needs to be caught up on! Those who are not caught up will not be able to do the science lab on Tuesday!