Grade 5 Homeschool 2020-2021. TERM 1

Grade 5 term 1
This is the year of the Covid Quarantine. We are home all summer and thought we would get a head start on our school work.

ADST
Woodworking with grandpa.
Lesson 1. Tool safety. Eye coverings and listen to grown up.
Watched you tube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sd2URRIKAQ   

Watched you tube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0QFkRqfW4k   

Watched you tube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL-c2Jk8a2s  

Lesson 2. Screwdrivers and screws.
Types.
Flathead
Star shaped Phillips screwdriver
Square shape Robertson screwdriver

Practiced screwing screws into wood.

Lesson 3. The drill
Practice using a drill safely.
Holding level and still.

Project 1. String art heart.

Project 2. Soccer game

Project 3.
Locker.

hammering in the nails. 

Using the screwdriver to screw in the hinges.

All done the assembly. 

Completed this project  independently.  

putting on the finishing touches. 

Career Ed
Volunteering at Faith Missions Bible camp.
Cleaning up fallen trees and brush.

We went back for a second day of volunteering and this time grandma and grandpa chopped wood and girls and mommy stacked a lot of wood.

Language Arts - BOOK STUDY
Island of the Blue Dolphin.


Language Arts - BOOKS READ:
1)Kiki & Jax the life-changing magic of friendship. By Marie Kondo.
2)


Language Arts - TTRS (Typing Website)


Language Arts - WRITING:


MATH: 

Focus is on multiplication.

PE/ Health:
Swimming:

Rollerblading

Swimming in Kal Lake - Vernon BC

Swimming at Swimming Pool at Faith Missions Bible Camp

Running Stairs in the apartment building
Swimming at a friends pool
Hiking 

SCIENCE:
Earth materials change as they move through the rock cycle and can be used as natural resources

Brain pop: Types of rocks 8/10

Brain pop: Rock cycle 6/10

Brain pop: Soil 8/10
Brain pop: Crystals 10/10

Brain pop: Natural resources 7/10

Brain pop: Floods 9/10

Work and study book: Robby unearths Rocks and Minerals. By Carole Marsh.

*Learn about rocks and Minerals. 

*definition of geology. 

*put in order size of rocky words... from grain to mountain. 

*Igneous rock

*Sedimentary rock

*Metamorphic rock

*completed a crossword puzzle about rock words

*Igneous rock also called Fire Rocks.

Books on Rocks, Minerals and Geology:
1)Geology Genius. Metamorphic Rocks. by Rebecca Pettiford
2)Geology. The Study of Rocks. By Susan H. Gray
3)A Rock Can Be... By Laura Purdie Salas
4)A Stone Sat Still. By Brendan Wenzel
5)Rocks and Minerals. By Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
6)Charlotte and The Rock. By Stephen W. Martin
7)Rocks and Minerals. By. Gail Tuchman

8)Skipping Rocks. By Lorraine Adam's

9)Sedimentary Rock. By Rebecca Faulkner

SOCIALS:

Canada's policies and treatment of minority peoples have negative and positive legacies.

Past discriminatory government policies and actions, such as the Head Tax, the Komagata Maru incident, residential schools, and internments

• Sample topics:
  • historical wrongs against East and South Asian immigrants
  • Indian Act
  • Head Tax on Chinese immigrants
  • numbered treaties with First Peoples
  • treatment of Doukhabours
  • 1884-85 famine
  • 1907 Anti-Asian Riots
  • Japanese and German internments
  • reduction or relocation of First Nations reserves
  • ethnic minorities denied the vote
• Key questions:
  • What types of discrimination have immigrants to Canada faced? (e.g., cases of systemic discrimination by local, provincial, and federal levels of government)
  • How might Canadian society be different today if exclusionary policies toward immigrants from East and South Asia had not been developed during certain periods of history?
  • What effects did residential schools have on First Nations families and communities

First Peoples land ownership and use

• Sample topics:
  • treaties
  • burial grounds
  • housing
  • hunting and fishing
  • land claims disputes
• Key questions:
  • How do First Peoples balance economic development with traditional uses of the land?
  • How fair has BC’s treaty process been? Explain your answer.