Entry for Thursday, June 4
Thursday already? One day more!
Today in History
On this day in history, June 4, 1896, Henry Ford drove his first automobile around the streets in his hometown of Detroit, Michigan in the USA.
Henry did not build the first car ever, but he was one of the early designers of a motorized vehicle.
Here is Henry posing with his wife, Clara.
This is a replica in a museum of his famous quadricycle.
Check out the cool video below showing a quadricycle being driven at the museum in Henry Ford's honour.
On this day in history, June 4, 1896, Henry Ford drove his first automobile around the streets in his hometown of Detroit, Michigan in the USA.
Henry did not build the first car ever, but he was one of the early designers of a motorized vehicle.
Here is Henry posing with his wife, Clara.
This is a replica in a museum of his famous quadricycle.
Check out the cool video below showing a quadricycle being driven at the museum in Henry Ford's honour.
Henry Ford's First Automobile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEtnJ7eU7xc
Later on, Henry designed the Model T Ford motorcar and only a handful were built at a time.
But...more and more people wanted to have one and Henry's production warehouse could not keep up. They built one car at a time and only started working on another car after the first one was built...then another, then another. Indeed, a very slow process.
One day, Henry Ford was visiting a friend who ran, of all things, a beef processing plant. Henry visited the facility and saw that everything done there was on an assembly line basis. It was his friend who gave him the idea to produce his Model T car with an assembly line approach...where specific people do specific tasks only...which they become really good at doing rather quickly.
Here we see the cars "rolling along" the assembly line track and this man is doing one specific job only. It will take him a minute or two and then the next car will roll by where he will do the exact same job again.
In this way, the assembly line approach, many, many more cars can be made each day! Between 1908 and 1927, a span of almost 20 years, over 15 million Model T Fords were made...a rather impressive amount!
The car in all shapes, sizes, colours, and styles...like this green convertable.
How about this station wagon version!
Perhaps the most interesting fact of all is that when Henry Ford first produced the Model T before using the assembly line approach...his cars were rather expensive to buy. Only the most wealthy of people could afford them.
After Henry Ford began assembling them on "the line", he was able to bring the cost down considerably. This made the Model T car very affordable to most families. It was nice of Henry to bring the price down so much!
Kudos to you Mr. Henry Ford!
"Those old fashioned cars look so cool!" she says.
"I know they weren't around at the time Baby Jesus was born because Mary and Joseph came to Bethlehem on a donkey." she announced.
Language Learning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEtnJ7eU7xc
Later on, Henry designed the Model T Ford motorcar and only a handful were built at a time.
But...more and more people wanted to have one and Henry's production warehouse could not keep up. They built one car at a time and only started working on another car after the first one was built...then another, then another. Indeed, a very slow process.
One day, Henry Ford was visiting a friend who ran, of all things, a beef processing plant. Henry visited the facility and saw that everything done there was on an assembly line basis. It was his friend who gave him the idea to produce his Model T car with an assembly line approach...where specific people do specific tasks only...which they become really good at doing rather quickly.
Here we see the cars "rolling along" the assembly line track and this man is doing one specific job only. It will take him a minute or two and then the next car will roll by where he will do the exact same job again.
In this way, the assembly line approach, many, many more cars can be made each day! Between 1908 and 1927, a span of almost 20 years, over 15 million Model T Fords were made...a rather impressive amount!
The car in all shapes, sizes, colours, and styles...like this green convertable.
How about this station wagon version!
Perhaps the most interesting fact of all is that when Henry Ford first produced the Model T before using the assembly line approach...his cars were rather expensive to buy. Only the most wealthy of people could afford them.
After Henry Ford began assembling them on "the line", he was able to bring the cost down considerably. This made the Model T car very affordable to most families. It was nice of Henry to bring the price down so much!
Kudos to you Mr. Henry Ford!
"Those old fashioned cars look so cool!" she says.
"I know they weren't around at the time Baby Jesus was born because Mary and Joseph came to Bethlehem on a donkey." she announced.
Language Learning
Video of Cars Read-Along Story book
Your Reading Task
Persuasive Writing
Pretend that you are a car.
You want to "persuade" the public that you are the best car to buy off the car lot.
Write four reasons why people should buy you and not any of the other cars.
Feel free to talk about how cool you look as you describe yourself...what are some of the cool looking parts of yourself...how fast you can go and still drive safely...how comfortable you are to sit in...and many other things
Feel free to draw a picture of yourself if you have time!
"We love cool looking cars!" he tells us with a big grin.
"We sure do!" they all respond.
Math Learning
Learning about algebra is challenging but fun.
Today we expand our learning.
Follow along...
9 = 9
4 + 5 = 6 + 3
This makes sense because
4 + 5 = 9 and 6 + 3 = 9
...so we can say that...
4 + 5 is the same amount as 6 + 3
Now...let's "hide" one of the numbers
7 + 3 = __ + 4
Well...7 + 3 = 10 so __ + 4 must also = 10
Yes..."6" works because 6 + 4 = 10
so
7 + 3 = 6 + 4
because
10 = 10
Learning about algebra is challenging but fun.
Today we expand our learning.
Follow along...
9 = 9
4 + 5 = 6 + 3
This makes sense because
4 + 5 = 9 and 6 + 3 = 9
...so we can say that...
4 + 5 is the same amount as 6 + 3
Now...let's "hide" one of the numbers
7 + 3 = __ + 4
Well...7 + 3 = 10 so __ + 4 must also = 10
Yes..."6" works because 6 + 4 = 10
so
7 + 3 = 6 + 4
because
10 = 10
Your Math Task
Copy and complete the page above.
Draw the boxes and fill them in with the proper number.
***HINT***
Look how Mr. Hamer put the answer in a smaller number above each equation on both sides of the problem.
This helped him to remember what the value for each side of the equals sign would be.
The little number should be the same for both sides to make them equal to each other.
"Algebra is fun!" he tells us.
"Yes, it is fun trying to figure out what the number is that should go in the empty box!" they call out.
Student Sharing
We continue with our sharing of student work with this sheet on money involving dimes.
When calculating with dimes we think in multiples of ten.
Here is work on quarters.
We recall that four quarters equal one dollar.
The coin is called a quarter because it is one quarter of a dollar. That's easy to remember!
Some great notes on fables as well. Wonderful!
Another great looking list and some work with loonies!
Of course, a toonie is the same value as two loonies.
Nice French work included as well.
Mme will like the French work and I like the fable work!
Looking good!
Great money calculating as well.Thank you for sharing all of this work with us S.G-S.
"It's awesome checking out the work our classmates do!" they say.
"Yes, and what great work it is!" the answer back.
We leave today with this lovely prayer.
Have a wonderful day everyone!
Mr. Hamer OCT
We continue with our sharing of student work with this sheet on money involving dimes.
When calculating with dimes we think in multiples of ten.
Here is work on quarters.
We recall that four quarters equal one dollar.
The coin is called a quarter because it is one quarter of a dollar. That's easy to remember!
Some great notes on fables as well. Wonderful!
Another great looking list and some work with loonies!
Of course, a toonie is the same value as two loonies.
Nice French work included as well.
Mme will like the French work and I like the fable work!
Looking good!
Great money calculating as well.Thank you for sharing all of this work with us S.G-S.
"It's awesome checking out the work our classmates do!" they say.
"Yes, and what great work it is!" the answer back.
We leave today with this lovely prayer.
Have a wonderful day everyone!
Mr. Hamer OCT
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