Ski Hero - Reading Comprehension

Comprehension: 
1. How did Lee feel as he stood at the top of the bunny hill? 
C - scared 

2. How did Lynn feel about skiing? 
C - she would rather stay home. 

3. What did Lee do when he found out Huge was afraid? 
A - he told huge the truth about how he felt. 

4. When did Lee find his own fear going away? 
A - when he saw the other children laughing and having fun. 

5. How did Lee and Huge feel after the skied down the hill? 
B - They were glad they’d done it and wanted to ski more. 

Vocabulary: 
1. Frightening (7) 
“It looks scary” 

2. Unafraid (11) 
“It's only the bunny hill, right?” Lee said, trying to be brave. 

3. Foolish (16) 
Lee told himself that Huge was being silly.

Food Festival - Project

Ratio Problems

WALT - solve ratio problems using division.

1. A herd of 52 horses has 12 white and some black horses. What is the ratio of white to black horses?

12:52

52 - 12= 40 black horses

40 ÷ 2= 20

12 ÷ 2= 6

20 ÷ 2= 10

6 ÷ 2= 3

3:10

2. A pattern has 5 blue triangles to every 80 yellow triangles. What is the ratio of blue triangles to all triangles?

5 x 16= 80

80 ÷ 16= 5

80 + 5= 85

5:85

3. Noah drew 22 hearts and 76 circles. What is the ratio of circles to all shapes?

22:98

22 ÷ 2= 11

98 ÷ 2= 49

11:49

4. A pattern has 14 blue triangles to every 18 yellow triangle. What is the ratio of yellow triangles to blue triangles?

18:14

18 ÷ 2= 9

14 ÷ 2= 7

9:7

5. A pattern has 6 blue triangles to 42 yellow triangles. What is the ratio of yellow triangles to blue triangles?

42:6

42 ÷ 2= 21

6 ÷ 2= 3

21:3

21 ÷ 3= 7

7:1

6. A group of preschoolers has 63 boys and 27 girls. What is the ratio of boys to all children?

63 + 27= 90

63:90

63 ÷ 3= 21

90 ÷ 3= 30

21:30

21 ÷ 3= 7

30 ÷ 3= 10

7:10

Swimming Topic

Why do we need to learn how to swim?

William and Nela

Topic sentence:

Swimming is a skill we should all learn.

Supporting sentence:

While your at the beach things can happen superfast you could get lonely and the tide can push you out to deep water and without swimming lessons, you can maybe drown and die.

Closing sentence:

Overall swimming is very vital and this is why I believe we all as Gi need to know how to swim.

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Worldwide Food Festival

Sacramento, California, one of the best places to be on earth. Especially where they showcase one of life's favorite food, bacon. The bacon festival is held on February the 6th to the 11th. It is packed with people in line ordering one of the worlds best mouth watering bacon. Menu packed with all different types of bacon, making it very hard for people to choose, well unless your a vegetarian. 

People coming all around the world just to have a taste of delicious bacon, suggested to have with beer. Also filled with entertaining showcases that brings people laughter and fun, which is why it is packed with lots of excitement.

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