Practice These Christmas Show Lyrics :D

Highlight, copy and paste these into your search bar: 

• HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS 
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JuG8vlr7-o
  
• CAROL OF THE BELLS
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq73h6XZQGA

Our Borax Crystals!

Make YOUR OWN Crystals!

Sugar Crystals

You may know Sugar Crystals by their other name, rock candy, or perhaps by their most common adjective, delicious! These take a little longer than the Needle Crystals to build, but they are easy enough to do and their taste is well worth the wait!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup water
• 3 cups table sugar
• clean glass jar
• pencil or butter knife
• string or yarn (do not use nylon string)
• pan for boiling water and making solution
• spoon for stirring
• (optional) food coloring

Directions:

1. Tie the string to your pencil or butter knife. The string should be able to hang into your jar without touching the bottom or sides.
2. In the pan start boiling the water. You may want to ask an adult for help or let them know you're using the stove, just in case.
3. Stir in the sugar one spoonful at a time. You want to make sure there is lots of thesolute (in this case sugar) in the solution, but not so much that it doesn't all dissolve into the solution. If you have some undissolved sugar your Rock Crystals will start building onto those molecules rather than your string.
4. Add a few drops of food coloring if you want some color to your candy.
5. Carefully pour the solution from the pan into your clean glass jar. Make sure it's clean, otherwise crystals will build onto those molecules on the jar and not on your string.
6. Balance the pencil or butter knife (with the string tied to it) on the lip of the jar and let the string dangle into the solution. Again, don't let the string hit the sides or bottom of the jar.
7. Find a safe spot for your jar so it won't get knocked around or exposed to too much dust and debris.
8. Check on your Rock Crystals the next day and notice how they're started to take form on the string.
9. Whenever your Rock Crystals are the right size for your taste or when they stop growing go ahead and take them out of the jar and let them dry.
10. Enjoy their sugary goodness!

Try This! Canadian River Quiz

Click on the link below and try the quiz. Please record what you got fully and partially right on a sticky note and submit it to Ms. Hornseth!


http://lizardpoint.com/geography/canada-rivers-quiz.php   

Something to Remember

Guided Reading HAS Begun!

Remember: 

• Your individual, weekly assignments are due on the day your group has been scheduled.

• Grade 6 level work is expected - write as much as you can!

• You can take the book home but you need to finish as much as you can at school first!

• If you are away, it is your responsibility to finish your assignment and submit it.

• Try your best to understand what you are reading - if that means you slow down or re-read a paragraph, do so! :) 

• HAPPY READING!

Our Canadian Maple Leaf Watercolour Art with a Special Guest (Ms. Karlen's Dad - Mr. Karlen)

Our Mask-Making Skills for the Mexican Tradition: Day of the Dead (October 31st - November 2nd)

Sugar Skulls to celebrate the lives of those who once lived.

Great work guys!

How to Multiply and Long Divide Using Decimals - Test Prep

Surface Tension!

What is Surface Tension?!

Water molecules want to cling to each other. At the very surface of the water, there are less molecules to cling to, so the bond between the top water molecules are stronger. 

This creates a film on the top of the water called surface tension. Small objects can float carefully on the surface of this film. 

Check out this video on some super short, easy science experiments involving surface tension:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsksFbFZeeU

Coming up next in Science..... How to make crystals, and experiments involving carbon dioxide and chemical reactions!