Science
Today we learned that sound travel at different speed through air, water and solid materials, like wood or metal. The energy of a sound wave can travel through different kinds of matter. Sound waves work by pushing on particles of matter. Matter is the stuff that everything is made up of—air, water, and even you! When a sound wave pushes on the particles of matter that make up air, those particles push on other particles of air. The sound energy moves along as each particle is pushed by the one before it. Sound can travel through solids, liquids, and gases in this manner. The particles of matter in gases are very far apart. They are closer together in a liquid and very close together in a solid.
Social Studies | What are child rights?
Children’s rights are human rights for children. The 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child is a treaty that recognizes specific rights for children. This week, we started to learn about global issues and universal child rights. However, we discussed that child rights in Canada might be quite different that child rights in other parts of the world. Ask your child how are global rights different from Canada’s rights.
Learning Tool | Read to Me
Softwares that can read aloud web pages, news, documents, and/or e-books can help students with their reading assignments and also improve their reading speed. I showed them how to install Google Chrome Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader (there several other options online as well). It is a free app, and if you think it might be helpful using this app on your home computer here is the link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/read-aloud-a-text-to-spee/hdhinadidafjejdhmfkjgnolgimiaplp/related?hl=en
Important dates:
April 11 – Purdy’s Chocolates Order Pick Up (at school)
April 19 – Good Friday – No schoolApril 22 – No school for students (Professional Development Day for Teachers)
May 10 – Volunteer Celebration
