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Saturday, November 13, 2010

November 11 & 12, 2010 Day Forty-Five and Forty-Six


Sophie's Blog: Tell us about your day yesterday—what did you accomplish? Write at least 5 sentences. Where are we going next week? What do you expect to learn about? Write 3 sentences.


I passed both of my tests yesterday. I'm very proud of myself. I also accomplished a whole 5 hour pretty much nonstop day of skating!!!!!!!!!!!!! I tested my pre- juv freestyle and the Willow waltz and Ten fox for dances. I was very tired after I tested. Next week we're going to Plymouth plantation and I'm excited about that because we are going to stay in hotel and SWIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm also excited to see the houses and native Americans. Last year in public school, we watched a video on Plymouth and I liked it a lot.
5 x 5 for 5th Grade
  1. Vocabulary
1. Pilgrim: A person who journey's a long way to a sacred place because of religion/The puritans who traveled to Plymouth Mass in 1620
2. Puritan: Protestants who left the church of England because they wanted a pure simple less fancy Christian religion
3. Seperatists: People who want to be separate from the Church of England
4. Doctrine: Rules and lists of beliefs for a particular
5. Heretic: A person who rejects the doctrine
5 Details/Facts
1. The November constellations are Pisces, Cassiopeia, Phoenix, Andromeda, Sculptor, and Tucana.
2. It's ironic in Annie when the dog catcher says that Sandy's no more her dog than he is her father because he might actually be her father!
3. A quicker way to fill in sky in a drawing is to take of a crayon's paper turn it sideways and rub it on the paper.
4. Lily learned how to draw people with Gama
5. The little dipper is (I think) the smallest constellation.
5 Sentences
1. The Pilgrims sailed here on The Mayflower in 1620 because of religion, they were Puritans.
2. A way to remember the puritans is that they wanted a pure and simple church.
3. The separatists wanted to have a separate doctrine and church.
4. The Catholic doctrine said that the Pope and priest are the only people that can talk to God.
5. The Protestants were heretics of the Catholic Church.
5 Questions & Answers
1. What did you learn about studying for reviews? A: Don't rush
2. What level skater are you now that you passed your test? A: Pre Juvenile
3. Describe an axel jump. A: Starting out forward like no other jump, an axel is a one and a half revolution jump that is the hardest to land
4. Who would call the Puritans heretics? A: The Church of England
5. What were the two colonies in the New World in 1607 and where were they? A: Jamestown and Popham. Virginia(real Virginia!) and Maine


Activities
Math Review—in preparation for her big 30 Question "Review" next week
Vocabulary Review—Read & study past Blog posts to prepare for "Review" on Monday *Sophie decided she wanted to review and take the review today! So she studied—and I warned her not to rush through it too fast—she did rush through her studying and then struggled a bit on a few of the questions of the Review. I helped her remember # 6, #13, #17, #24, & #25 with some "Hints." Server was the only one that I "gave" her. She learned an important lesson to take the time I give her to study and just because she thinks she knows all her vocabulary and can rush to take the Review, taking her time to study is important and would have benefited her on this Review. I am not disappointed, she did well but she could have done better had she taken her time. An important lesson learned! Hopefully she remembers this when preparing for her Astronomy and Math Reviews!
Vocabulary Review 2
  1. This word describes a place so big that it's virtually indefinable: _Universe______________
  2. This word sucks all time and light into it: Black hole__________
  3. Propel means to: Drive or move in a certain way ___________________________
  4. The diameter of the Earth measures _________straight through_____________
  5. The Earth rotates around its axis and it _______revolves___________ around the Sun
  6. This fancy "P" word describes the spits of gas on the sun: _______Prominent_____________
  7. This is the measurement around the world: ________circumference________
  8. When a plane rises in the air it gains ___________altitude____________
  9. This is a "D" word that describes the measurements of height, width, depth: _____Dimension___________
  10. You are this marvelous word when you skate: ____Magnificent_____________
  11. Percussion is another word for ______beat_____________ in music
  12. This is the word for an idea thought of by educated people or experts: ____theory________________
  13. This word means to bring together, usually used in reference to business:_____incorporate_____
  14. This word describes the wonderful happenings in the world that make us wonder: __________Phenomenon________
  15. Emulate means to ______imitate and be better____________
  16. This is a "hard" word to spell that means something is not there: ____absence_____________
  17. This is the word for the computers that Dad manages at Fairchild ______Server____________
  18. This word can be used to describe a kind of food and also the things Fairchild makes: _wafer________
  19. This is the word for the space Dad (and many other people) work in: _____Cubical__________
  20. Dad sets up a Network to help computers do what to each other: ____________talk to each other____
  21. This word is usually used to describe the South in the Civil War but it means a group of people: ________Confederacy__________
  22. I used this word to describe you on Halloween: _____Ethereal _________
  23. This word can be used to describe daily life at sea: __________monotony_________
  24. We had these kinds of tides in Maine last week: ___________Astronomical__________
  25. This is the word that describes the space on the edge of civilization: ______Frontier __________


Current Events: "Massive gamma rays discovered in galaxy center" Read and draw an illustration for article.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101110/sc_afp/usastronomy/print




Astronomy Web Quest
Web Quest: Astronomy & You Tube
  1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUtLXjT81mg&feature=related
A: Listen to the Solar System Rap
B: Listen to it again

 
C: What is the sun? A super star
D: What colors can a star be? Red, Yellow, or blue

 
E: What galaxy is our solar system on the edge of?
The Milky Way

 
F: What is the "a" word for the imaginary line the Earth rotates on?
Axis

 
  1. A: Watch, listen, and try to sing along.

     
  2. A: What is the Latin word for "sun"?
    Sol
    B: How many planets are in our solar system?
    8 planets + 3 dwarf


    C: What does "terrestrial" mean?
    Earthlike


    D: What kind of planet is Pluto classified as?


    Dwarf
E: Where is the "asteroid belt"?
In between Mars and Jupiter

 
F: What kinds of tails does a comet have?
Gas and Dust
  1. A: Watch the video and answer questions
    B: What's "wrong" with this video?
    It says there are 9 planets


    C: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqX2YdnwtRc&feature=related
    1. Why isn't Pluto a planet anymore?
      Because it's too small and follows a weird orbit


    D: What does the word "planet" mean in Greek?


    Wander
    E: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghiDsHtFsLY&feature=related
    F: Watch video and answer questions
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdv8V8gQa9w
A: What are the phases of the moon?
New Moon, Waxing Crescent, First quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Last Quarter, Waning Crescent.
A: What did you learn from Yakko about the universe? Write a 3 sentence paragraph: There are a lot of things in the Universe, and we are all little specks. I learned that the universe can go on forever. And I also learned that there is not another place in Space called the Yakko Universe like I thought I was going to learn about before I watched the video.
  1. A: Click on the Level 2 "Solar System" tab and read
    B: Copy & Save As image of Solar System
    C: Click "Solar System Activities" and Choose "Song for all Seasons"
    D: Follow Instructions for activity. Listen to music and indentify season.
E: Copy & Paste the instructions for activity here: Artists throughout the ages have received inspiration from natural phenomenon taking place in the world around them. Italian composer and violinist, Antonio Vivaldi, used the Earth's seasonal relationship to the Sun as inspiration for his masterpiece "The Four Seasons". "The Four Seasons" consists of four violin concertos, each inspired by a different season. Listen to an excerpt from each of the concertos. After the selection has played, decide which season Vivaldi is trying to portray. Look at the chart of the Earth's orbit around the Sun above and the position (1, 2, 3, or 4) which you believe is where the Earth would be in its orbit during that season you hear. The Earth's tilt remains at a constant 23.5 degrees, but you must decide (depending on the season) if the northern he Artists throughout the ages have received inspiration from natural phenomenon taking place in the world around them. Italian composer and violinist, Antonio Vivaldi, used the Earth's seasonal relationship to the Sun as inspiration for his masterpiece "The Four Seasons". "The Four Seasons" consists of four violin concertos, each inspired by a different season. Listen to an excerpt from each of the concertos. After the selection has played, decide which season Vivaldi is trying to portray. Look at the chart of the Earth's orbit around the Sun above and the position (1, 2, 3, or 4) which you believe is where the Earth would be in its orbit during that season you hear. The Earth's tilt remains at a constant 23.5 degrees, but you must decide (depending on the season) if the northern hemisphere is tilted toward or away from the Sun, if the southern hemisphere is tilted toward or away from the Sun, or if neither hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun. After you have listened to each selection and made your choices of the corresponding positions, check your ears against the ears of Vivaldi!
F: Click Return to Star Child Main Page at bottom
G:Click on Question of the Month
H: Read and Answer Question
I: Copy & Paste Answer here The Earth spins on its "axis". This axis is an imaginary line running through the Earth. If you were to be high above the Earth, looking straight down along the axis, all the points on Earth would appear to move in circles around the axis. If you followed this axis out into space from the northern hemisphere on Earth, it would point toward a particular star in the sky. We call that star the "North Star" since it sits in the direction that the spin axis from the northern hemisphere of Earth points

 

 
J: Copy & Save As image of Polaris

 
  1. http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/java/Caelum.html
A: Just play around with this site and turn the dial to see all the constellations.

 

 
  1. Tonight we're going out constellation hunting after play rehearsal. Our goal is to find these constellations. Let's look at your constellation map and star-chart and get ready for our star-finding exploration tonight~
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