Entry for Wednesday, April 15
Yes, we are happy. Even though we saw some snowflakes last week, we hope they are all gone by now.
The 15th of April brings us to the halfway point in the month.
Check it out...the number 15 is located right in the middle of the calendar for April.
Look at the calendar carefully. Which two days of the week appear five times in this month?
If you said Wednesday and Thursday, you are correct! This April we have five Wednesdays and five Thursdays. All the rest of the days of the week appear only four times this month. Reading a calendar is a great skill to learn!
Today In History
As the image above indicates, on this day in history, April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the major league colour barrier.
What this means is that Jackie was the first man of colour to play baseball in the major leagues.
Before that time, only white men were allowed to play professional baseball and that was not fair.
Before the March Break, Mr. Hamer had read this story to the children, but we didn't get the time to do any work around it except for some very good discussions.
Language Suggestion
Below are links to three different amazing read-alouds telling the story of Jackie Robinson.
I am asking the students pick one of them to read for an activity below. They can choose whichever one they wish...and they can check out all three if they so desire!
The first choice is the Value Tales story Mr. Hamer already read in class before the March Break. The other two would be new books for the students. All three tell Jackie's story beautifully.
Choose one of the three books below to read.
Choose one of the three books below to read.
Video #1 Read Aloud "The Value of Courage - Jackie Robinson"
Video #2 Read Aloud "Young Jackie Robinson"
Video #3 Read Aloud "I Am Jackie Robinson"
Your Learning Task
Print these four words in good quality sentences. Look at the first word in the list...brave. It is a descriptive word. You can use it to describe Jackie Robinson. Describing words are called "Adjectives". Brave is an adjective.
Here are your four words for sentences even though not all of them are adjectives..
brave
courage
fair
quit
Mr. Hamer will take one of the words to use as an example. The word "quit".
1. Jackie Robinson never quit baseball even when the going got tough.
Notice how Mr. Hamer bold-faced and underlined the special word he chose and how he numbered the sentence as being number one. You will have to use four numbers for your sentences...and, if you wish, you may copy my "quit" sentence or make up one of your own for that word.
Boys and girls...Mr. Hamer has always liked this saying.
"Quitters never win...and winners never quit!":
Isn't that a great saying!
Math Suggestion
Just as "Division Dan" indicates, when we divide, we split a number of objects into groups of equal amounts. Look how he wants to give his three friends the 15 stickers he has...but he wants to make sure that each friend gets the same amount.
He begins by giving each friend one sticker, then another and another until he runs out of stickers. Once he has divided his 15 stickers "equally" and "fairly" among his three friends, each friend ends up with 5 stickers.
Yes, Dan has divided his 15 stickers among three friends with each friend getting five stickers.
This is the equation we use to show this division problem. We read the equation like this:
"15 divided by three equals five."
Each friend gets five stickers.
Thanks Division Dan!
In the image above, see how 12 candies can be divided evenly between three bags.
Each bag receives four candies.
"12 divided by three equals four."
Two Division Videos
Watch both these two-minute videos. The first is an introduction to division
It teaches us how division is related to sharing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBKYxl45oiI
The second video demonstrates equal sharing as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5KCjC1R3ng
Your Learning Task
On a blank piece of paper, create you're very own Division Dan character (or...Division Dave, Donald, Diane, Dorothy...whoever you want it to be) and make a poster showcasing a different division problem from the two we have learned above.
Student Sharing Time
Mr. Hamer received some great images of on-line learning from our classmates.
Here's a great version of the ten times tables and the related "repeated additions" involved.
(Remember, you can enlarge these images by clicking on them and return to the regular page by clicking outside them.)
Some cool examples of habitats both official and made up. Love it!
Thank you for this wonderful "Thank You" note to Jesus.
Lovely work G.M.
Such a great example of nine of our 3D solids, all labelled so nicely.
She knows her geometry, for sure. Nice going G.V-P.
What a fabulous example of how solids can move.
She's showing some great comprehension. This girl listened to the story carefully.
Here she is again, hard at work making treats for all of her classmates!
They taste so good M.S. Yum! Yum!
First, he's remembering all of the aspects of procedural writing and he's even given us some images to go along with his work. Bravo!
Then he completed this worksheet his family found on identifying 3D shapes!
Excellent!
Next, he played a matching game!
Finally, he went on a shape hunt to complete this chart.
Super job I.Z.
We are really "going to town" with our learning today, class!
Math Suggestion
Today we begin a new unit in math on Division.
Just as "Division Dan" indicates, when we divide, we split a number of objects into groups of equal amounts. Look how he wants to give his three friends the 15 stickers he has...but he wants to make sure that each friend gets the same amount.
He begins by giving each friend one sticker, then another and another until he runs out of stickers. Once he has divided his 15 stickers "equally" and "fairly" among his three friends, each friend ends up with 5 stickers.
Yes, Dan has divided his 15 stickers among three friends with each friend getting five stickers.
This is the equation we use to show this division problem. We read the equation like this:
"15 divided by three equals five."
Each friend gets five stickers.
Thanks Division Dan!
In the image above, see how 12 candies can be divided evenly between three bags.
Each bag receives four candies.
"12 divided by three equals four."
Two Division Videos
Watch both these two-minute videos. The first is an introduction to division
It teaches us how division is related to sharing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBKYxl45oiI
The second video demonstrates equal sharing as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5KCjC1R3ng
Your Learning Task
On a blank piece of paper, create you're very own Division Dan character (or...Division Dave, Donald, Diane, Dorothy...whoever you want it to be) and make a poster showcasing a different division problem from the two we have learned above.
Student Sharing Time
Mr. Hamer received some great images of on-line learning from our classmates.
Here's a great version of the ten times tables and the related "repeated additions" involved.
(Remember, you can enlarge these images by clicking on them and return to the regular page by clicking outside them.)
Some cool examples of habitats both official and made up. Love it!
Thank you for this wonderful "Thank You" note to Jesus.
Lovely work G.M.
Such a great example of nine of our 3D solids, all labelled so nicely.
She knows her geometry, for sure. Nice going G.V-P.
What a fabulous example of how solids can move.
She's showing some great comprehension. This girl listened to the story carefully.
Here she is again, hard at work making treats for all of her classmates!
They taste so good M.S. Yum! Yum!
First, he's remembering all of the aspects of procedural writing and he's even given us some images to go along with his work. Bravo!
Then he completed this worksheet his family found on identifying 3D shapes!
Excellent!
Next, he played a matching game!
Finally, he went on a shape hunt to complete this chart.
Super job I.Z.
We are really "going to town" with our learning today, class!
Yes, keep those lessons coming my way as I am tracking all of your submitted work.
Remember, parents...while our final report card is based on work completed up to the March Break, this submitted work can help to improve marks and no report card marks will go down as a result of any submitted material..That's a great formula in my books.
Time to go now and run a train through the New England landscape as depicted on my model railroad.
Have a great day everyone. Work hard but play hard as well!
Mr. Hamer OCT
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