5 x 5 for 5th Grade
5 Pictures/Illustrations
5 Vocabulary
1. Bonaventure: A mast fitted with a lateen sail located at the back or stern of the ship.
2. Rudder: A silver blade at the stern of a ship, to steer the ship.
3. Enigma: A puzzling situation.
4. Fathom: The depth of the ocean, measured in 6 feet.
5. An ancient instrument consisting of an arrangement of rings.
5 Details/Facts
1. The first maps of the world are called T-O maps.
2. Most of the maps we saw had pictures of sea monsters and mermaids.
3. The shape of the world changed overtime because people explored more and mapped what they discovered.
4. Dutch maps had art on the edges, and were very colorful.
5. Some names of the winds are : Abroholus, Auster, And Bora.
5 Sentences
1. Detectives solve enigmas.
2. "Turn the rudder!" said the sailor.
3. The Bonaventure sail is on the back mast of a boat.
4. Sailors measure the depth of the ocean in fathoms. ( six feet )
5. I learned about armillary spheres today at the map gallery.
5 Questions & Answers
1. List three reasons why John Cabot made his son Sebastian stay behind in Bristol, England. A: Because there needed to be someone to take care of their mother, and Sancio could get himself out of trouble, and he wasn't the oldest.
2. How many regular miles make up a nautical mile? A: 1.7 miles.
3. What is a "knot"? A: 1 nautical mile.
4. Describe a T and O map. A: A T and O map is a map that has a T dividing all the continents (which was Europe, Asia, and Africa.) and the O as outer space. Because that's what they thought the world looked like.
5. What kinds of images did you see on the maps at the Osher Map Gallery? Name 5. A: Creatures like, mermaids, Greek legends, astrological signs, three headed monsters, and ships.
5 Pictures/ Images
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| Very detailed, colorful Dutch map with depcitions of the constellations, elements, 7 wonders of the world. |
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| Lesson on ships in the classroom |
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| Walk in Deering Oaks Park, Portland |
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| Dad & sophie at Osher Map Gallery |
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| This was one of Sophie's favorita maps because it showed the two hemispheres. |
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| Sophie's ship, The Calderwood |
Sophie's Blog: Day Nine. What did you do yesterday on your day off? What does it mean when I say: "Heave Ho, me harties! Drop from the crows-nest, beware the rigging, and come ye aft! Guide your rudder starboard, we're no more than ten fathoms!" Hint: Rewrite the sentence translating the nautical terms and phrases you learned today. Describe the map you like best from the Osher Map Gallery. How was skating today?
Yesterday was Lily's dance lesson with me. We prepared a show for Caca's birthday. I taught Lily all about ballet and tap and she has my old shoes for dance shoes. I t was sooo much fun. We also played my new game project runway accessory design challenge. That funny pirate saying says: Pull my fellow sailors, get down from the crows nest, Don't go on the ropes , and come to the back. Turn the wheel right, we're only 60 feet of water! The map I liked best was the flat maps because they really looked like the world, and it showed that the world was round.
3 activities: Movie, Walk, Field Trip
Movie: The Pirates of the Caribbean, which she watched after learning about the different parts of a ship and various nautical terms. She watched the movie while designing, labeling, and painting her own ship, The Calderwood, for inclusion in her scrapbook. Next Tuesday we will have the opportunity to visit Mystic Seaport and will learn about the grand sailing ships. The movie was fun and educational—she identified many of the terms we learned today, as well as the parts of the ship shown in the movie.
Walk—we plan to take a nice, brisk walk after our field trip and before skating—sometimes it's hard to fit it all in! We had a nice walk in Deering Oaks Park—saw squirrels and ducks and talked about when we used to live in Portland when Sophie was little. She finished her 5 Details/Facts and we discussed our trip to the Osher Map Gallery.
Field Trip—Sophie and I are visiting the Osher Map Gallery at the Glickman Library on the Portland campus of the University of Southern Maine. There's a fantastic new exhibit that opened yesterday: Envisioning the World: The First Printed Maps 1472-1700 http://usm.maine.edu/maps/exhibition/17/home/envisioning-the-world-the-first-printed-maps-1472-1700.
What a wonderful exhibit with beautiful, accessible maps that are easy to view, which is important because there is so much lovely detail. Kevin took time from work and met us there, which was a special treat! The exhibit is in a small, L-shaped wing of the library and it is a beautiful, peaceful space. The docent is helpful, but allowed the three of us to leisurely explore the maps and read aloud from the information placards, which are interesting and can be easily translated for a ten-year old. We were allowed to take pictures and we all learned a lot about early cartography. I especially enjoyed actually seeing the changing of perception and understanding of the world and its continents. We \ actually moved, in time, from one map to another and witnessed how the shape and perspective of North and South American changed as further exploration and discoveries were made. I pointed out to Sophie how amazing it really is that paper, hand-drawn maps hundreds of years old still exist and how special an opportunity we had to see these maps in person. (This was a free exhibit.) As a gift and to my complete surprised, we were given two books about Moses Greenleaf, a wilderness cartographer in Maine in the years 1777-1834—a primer for Sophie and Settling the Maine Wilderness. I look forward to using these resources later this year. I will have to think about a good project for Sophie to do on Moses Greenleaf.
This morning Sophie and I worked on a math worksheet from a great book, 40 Fabulous Math Mysteries, which uses detective stories to solve math problems. She worked with dividing the number 17 evenly among 3 friends.
Sophie designed, labeled, and painted her own sailing ship today. Her assignment was to label at least 10 parts of the ship and she labeled 12! She did a great job painting! This page will go along side her sea chest page in her Age of Discovery scrapbook.
During "recess" Sophie and I played a new game from the show Project Runway where players design fashion accessories. We played last night before bed as a family and it's quite fun and creative. There's a wheel to spin 4 times that determines the time (1 min, 10 mins, unlimited), the accessory (boot, sunglasses, handbag), two themes (mythological, romantics, 1920s). There's a pad and colored pencils and each player takes turns being the judge. Sophie, of course, loves this game and came up with some really creative ideas!
We read Chapter Two of our John Cabot novel, which included a lot of nautical terms and references to sailing ships.
We had a yummy lunch on the deck—chilly fall air today—of toasted peanut butter & Grandmas Linda's grape jelly, cucumbers from the garden, Annie's honey bears, and native peaches with water. Having good food at home is definitely one of the biggest, most important changes in Sophie's school life. Not only did the public school consistently serve packaged, preservative-filled food but the lunchroom atmosphere and rules are stifling and strict. Meals should be a time of joy and substance, not full of rules and punishment.
Another fantastic day of school with Sophie!
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