January 10, 2011 Day Seventy-Nine

5 x 5 for 5th Grade

5 Vocabulary

1. Act (government): A formal decision or a law made by the legislature or ruler

2. Influenza: A common epidemic respiratory and intestinal virus we commonly call it the flu

3. Appalachia: In the East United States in the South, Appalachia is a place between West Virginia and South Carolina, region like New England

4. Masseter: The largest and strongest bone in the Mandible allowing you to chew

5. Mental foramen: The small hole on the side of your mandible that lets blood and nerves travel to your chin.

5 Sentences

1. King George the third caused the Stamp Act and the Tax Act which was one of the reasons for the Revolutionary war.

2. Gama had Influenza over Christmas and the week after.

3. The Appalachian Trail of Mountains begins in South Carolina and ends in Maine.

4. I make my Masseter stronger by moving it left to right without moving my upper jawbone or Maxillary.

5. When you think of the word mental you think of the brain but in mental foramen mental means chin.

5 Facts & Details

1. Mentum is Latin for chin.

2. The world tallest snowman was in Maine!

3. The world tallest snowman Olympia, was 122 feet and 1 inch tall.

4. A girl made 100 origami cranes in 1 hour, 14 minutes and 25 seconds.

5. In Mexico there was a hot dog made that was longer than a football field.

5 Questions

1. Did the Pilgrims attempt to Sail to the 41^st parallel after first sighting land? A: Yes they sailed south toward the 41^st parallel

2. What document was drafted and signed by the Pilgrims to establish civil government? A: The Mayflower Compact was on November 11, 1620

3. Which of the pilgrims might have drafted the Mayflower Compact? A: William Brewster

4. Why didn't all the adult passengers sign the Compact? A: The rest were probably under age

5. What activity did the Pilgrim women perform when they first went ashore.

5 Math: Place Value in 5 Minute Math Problem of the Day

Rearrange the digits & decimal point to find your answer. Use every digit and decimal point for each answer.

3 7 1 . 5 9

1. I am the largest number less than 10,000. A: 9753.1

2. I am the smallest number A: .13579

3. I am the number nearest to 60. A: 59.731

4. I am the number nearest to 300. A: 197.531

5. I am the smallest number larger than 600. A: 713.59

Bonus: I am the largest number smaller than 80. A: 79.531

Activities:

Math Workbooks: Guinness 1 page, Sylvan Math rounding number

Gray's Anatomy

Skating—I hour + lesson

Colonial Family Web lesson: http://www.thehenryford.org/exhibits/smartfun/colonial/intro/index.html

Colonial Letters: Family Roles lecture & discussion

Your Human Body Project

Materials: Easel paper

Pencil

Measure tape

Glue

Pens

Ruler

Scissors

*other materials needed

First lay down as flat and still as you can on the paper rolled out. I will trace the outline of your body on the paper. Carefully get up from the paper. Now we'll cut the paper and tape your body to the wall. Repeat for more bodies~

As Sophie learns about the parts: the bones, muscles, organs, and systems of the human body, you will fill your body with your own parts with materials we find in the house. We will work on our bodies once a week until the unit is complete.

Sophie has already learned about the skull or cranium and some of the bones that make up that part of our human body. Create, place, & label all Capital and Bold parts of your human body.

Cranium: the portion of the skull that protects the brain is composed of thick interlocking plates: the Frontal, Spenoid, Temporal, Parietal, and Occipital bones.

*leftover party plates—paper or plastic, cut, paste, and label for the 4 bones of the cranium.

These bones (plates) meet at Joints called Sutures.

*after punching holes along the edges of the plates, use yarn as the sutures for the joints.

Your Jaw is made up of two bones: maxillary bone or Maxilla and the Mandible.

*use a paperless toilet roll cut neatly in half and place as the upper maxilla and lower mandible jaw bones.

Please understand that your actual human jaw bone—and all your other bones for that matter—is a lot stronger than a cardboard toilet paper roll but we can't paste a bunch of heavy objects representing human bones on paper that we hang on a wall.

The mandible provides a place for the muscles that help you chew: Masseter

Sophie's Blog: Today I did work in my three math books. I did some math on Rounding and finding the number math. I finished my 5x5 before 11:30 and we started on our science project. We put down our cranium with plates! (The bones making the cranium are called the plates!!!) We also did the jaw bones with toilet paper rolls, and the masseter with black playdough. We had a very Productive day.