Our Learning Jan 6th-10th

 Room 17/18 Blog

Important Dates:

• Jan 27th- Report Cards go live on Powerschool

Math: 

This week in Miss Olson's math group, we revised how to find the area of a triangle the formula is Base Times Height dived by two or bxh/2. We also learned how to find the area of a composite shape. That is when there are multiple shapes combined. 

In Mr. Strother’s math class we were learning about area and perimeter of a rectangle. We got to measure the area and perimeter of different items around the room. For example, the window.

ELA:

In ELA this week we learned about persuasive writing .

The topic was whether tiktok should be banned 

or not in Canada. We learned about the oreo witch stands 

• Opinion

• Reason

• Example/Explanation

• Opinion

We can use this oreo strategy to write a strong persuasive paragraph.

Grade 5 Science/Social:

In social studies this week we learned about indigenous food,clothes and shelter. We cooked a stew from the three sisters which are squash,beans and corn. They were the main food source for the indigenous groups in the East. We also made color skirts to celebrate Ribbon Skirt Day.   

Grade 6 Science/Social: 

This week in Social, we reviewed a little about Ancient Greece. We mostly discussed how women, in most of Ancient Greece, with the exception of city-state Sparta, had very little rights. 

They were not seen as citizens, rather slaves, and could not even leave the house without prior permission. 

Whenever a woman’s father deemed it time to get married (usually at the age of 12 to 15), the father would pick out a husband (usually an older man, like 40), and marry his daughter to said husband. Usually, the daughter would have never even seen her bride prior to the wedding.

Women could not vote, own property, or even have any cash. 

In addition to that, we also learned how Ancient Greeks voted. It is referred to as “The Assembly”. Every 8 to 10 days, Greeks would have to walk from their home and climb a half-mountain, up to where they voted. Up there, was a flat “hill”, in front of which the Speaker would talk. Due to there being massive amounts of people, even 24,000 at times, they had to do this in order for the sound of their voice to bounce off the hill, so it is able to be heard by more. Yes, no microphones!

Every time they gathered at The Assembly, the council chose a topic for the people to speak about. Anyone could speak, but it had to be on said topic. If the audience didn’t like the speech, they may Boo the speaker or force them off the hill.

To begin an Assembly, they first needed 6,000 people in the audience. 

To vote, the audience raised their hands. Slaves had to count all the raised hands, and this could take very long. It has also been documented that sometimes, Greeks would use colored rocks to vote, so that they don’t have to keep their hand up.