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Students will need the following for one last design project this week:
2 rulers, paper roll, 2 cans playdough, pencil and plastic fork, tape

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The children will cut the words and glue them the next day.

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In class activity, materials needed for Tuesday June 9th.

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In class activity, materials needed for Tuesday June 9th.

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We will be working on balance.  It would be nice if the children could have some materials to make a balance and to be able to manipulate it.

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Materials needed for the 1pm session of Tuesday

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Materials needed for the 1pm session of Tuesday

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- two empty toilet paper rolls
- 1 construction paper
- left over paper to cut and make the balance
- glue
- 1 black marker

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As homework for Tuesday, the children could do a page of their "cahier d'écriture".

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As homework for Tuesday, the children could do a page of their "cahier d'écriture".

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Sorbet preparation Wednesday (see email)

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Sorbet preparation Wednesday (see email)

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- Cutting fruits

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- mixing the fruits

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- savor them

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Need to be printed for Friday June 12th 9am session

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Need to be printed for Friday June 12th 9am session

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The children can write the date everyday

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The children can write the date everyday

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The children will have the choice to use paint or crayons to color the background blue and green.
They will need to cut the other part of the paper from Tuesday.  They will form the ladybug and the bee with it.
They can cut color papers for petals for the flowers, color it or paint it.

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Each card has an image of something we have learned in class

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MILLE MILLIARDS D'INSECTES - Les Enfantastiques

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la récré des ptits loups - Comptines & Docus

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Pourquoi l'abeille fait du miel ? 🐝 Documentaire animalier pour enfant de maternelle

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notre belle Nature- les insectes du jardin

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For Wednesday May 27th, the children will need a green marker and a red marker.

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Need to be printed for Thursday May 28th

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What is needed from May 26 until June 5

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Print and staple together or print separately and staple after each page is completed. Will be completed in class.

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Please print the name of your child. When you open the file and print it, the name should appear in cursive.

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Free during at home learning.

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Lego pulley

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Combine science and LEGO® building in this fun STEM engineering challenge for kids! Can you build a LEGO® pulley system that makes it easier (less work) to lift a load of pennies? This post contains Amazon affiliate links.
We lifted pennies in our LEGO® pulley system, but anything with some weight would work - marbles, rocks, etc.

Build a LEGO® basket to hold your load. We had this neat brick with holes in it that went all the way around the top of our basket, but any Technic bricks would work. You will want to have two holes in the top for attaching the string, and it's best if the holes are centered.

Then find some wheels (with the tires removed) to use as pulleys. You will need bricks with axles to attach them to. Some of ours are also attached to a connector pin and a 1 x 2 Technic brick (with a hole).

Attach the string as shown below, and fill up your basket with pennies.

We didn't read about pulleys before doing this project so that it would be purely experimental, and it was more fun that way!

First, Owen tried lifting the basket of pennies to see how heavy it felt. It was heavy!

Then we tried lifting the basket using one wheel as a pulley. It definitely felt easier lifting it this way!

Then we tried to reduce the amount of effort needed to lift the pennies by adding more pulleys.

This was... not successful! Note that the set-up in the photo above does NOT work. It actually makes it more difficult to lift the load because we added more friction without adding any mechanical advantage.

Hmm....

At this point we consulted our science text book ( Exploring Creation with Chemistry and Physics - love it!). We learned that our first pulley set-up did not actually reduce the amount of force needed to lift the load, but it did seem easier to lift because it's easier to pull down than to lift up. In order to really create a mechanical advantage, we needed to attach a pulley to the load.

We put extra bricks around the wheel on the basket to hold it on when we lifted the load.

Then we needed something to attach the string to. I tried tying it to a Technic brick and it worked. We added more bricks around it, and the string held very securely.

Then we were ready to lift with a double pulley system. This type of pulley system cuts the amount of force needed to lift the load in half.

If you have a spring scale, you can measure exactly how much force is needed to lift the basket. You will need to tie the string to the spring scale.

Aidan used the spring scale to lift just the basket full of pennies (no pulleys), and the scale read 2 Newtons. Then with our pulley system, it took 1 Newton of force to lift the basket. This fit exactly with what we read in our book - a double pulley system should cut the amount of force needed in half.

The younger boys were impressed!

After that, we experimented with a four pulley system. Two of the pulleys need to be attached to the load.

The set-up above should require 1/4 of the amount of force needed to lift the basket. We should have observed 1/2 Newton of force with our spring scale, but we were still seeing about 1 Newton of force. Our spring scale is not very exact, and I'm also wondering if it takes a burst of force to get the motion started (to overcome inertia and friction) and then the distance that we were lifting was not far enough to tell how much force was needed? I'm not sure. Anyway, we all agreed that the four pulley system felt much easier to lift!

Here is another way to arrange four pulleys:

You can read more about how pulleys work here: Powerful Pulleys Lesson from Teach Engineering
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Simple Machines for Kids: LEGO Pulleys STEM Building Challenge - Frugal Fun For Boys and Girls

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Combine science and LEGO® building in this fun STEM engineering challenge for kids! Can you build a LEGO® pulley system that makes it easier (less work) to lift a load of pennies? This post contains Amazon affiliate links. We lifted pennies in our LEGO® pulley system, but anything with some weight would work - marbles, [...]

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I am using this technique with children to make a mini book. This is for your reference only.

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Foldables: Make an 8-page mini book from one sheet of paper!

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Use this free template to make an 8-page mini foldable book from one sheet of paper! Kids will have a great time coloring their own book! Foldables idea.

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Send a photo of yourself with a simple machine you find in your home: water faucet, doorknob, door hinge, ramp, jar with screw lid, knife (careful), hammer, nail, seesaw. Let me know if you have any questions. I will add the photos to our slideshow to study simple machines.

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After you download, click "enable editing" at the top and you can drag and drop the letters to make words like we do in class. You can also insert more letters to make more words!

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Book Creator is a simple tool for creating awesome digital books. Create your own teaching resources or have your students take the reins.

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Here is what you'll need

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For May 11-15

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New green cards and chart!

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Worksheets