Chickadee November 2018 Teacher/Parent Resources

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DiscoveryHow to Break a World Record

This month’s Discovery looks at how Guinness World Records are set. Read the article together, then set up a classroom record-setting challenge. Students should come up with a record idea and a step-by-step plan for attempting it. The records should be achievable in a classroom setting, such as the number of Chickadee magazines balanced on someone’s head or a time challenge for reciting a poem intelligibly.

Steps: • Idea: Come up with an idea for a classroom record.

• Approval: Make sure your teacher okays your idea.

• Set the Rules: Write out guidelines for successfully setting your record. For the magazine-balancing idea, maybe no one can help you place the magazines on your head and they have to stay put for ten seconds.

• Go for It: Make sure a student or a teacher watches your attempt. Have someone record your attempt so you can review the footage later.

• Challenge: Invite other students to try to break your record.

Follow-up Activities:• Have students design and create certificates for the record-setters and

display them around the room.

• Pull out a copy of Guinness World Records and be amazed at what you read!

• See if you can research and find more record-breaking animals. Present your amazing discoveries to the class.

Classroom Connections: art, language arts, media literacy, science

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Did You Know? The impala is one of the animal kingdom’s best jumpers. With a running

start, it can leap the distance of two minivans!

• Impalas are antelopes, and they’re related to gazelles, goats, cattle, and sheep.

• They weigh as much as a big dog.

• They live in woodlands and grasslands in southern and eastern Africa.

ANIMAL FAST FACTS

Animal of the Month The Impala

Follow-Up Question:How do impalas warn each other of danger?

Classroom Connections: science, language arts

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Fiction Wolverine and Little Thunder

Read the story aloud or listen to the author read it at owlkids.com/listen. Then, using this T-chart, work together to define the words below. Tip: Use the vocabulary in a sentence to help make meaning.

Fiction Vocabulary

Indestructible

Reckless

Impulsive

Trickster

Elders

Wigwam

Persistence

Petroglyphs

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Fiction Wolverine and Little Thunder

As a follow-up activity, use the vocabulary words as a lead-in to discuss the story. Below are some question prompts to get you started:

Wolverine and Little Thunder Discussion Questions:

• Who is Little Thunder’s favourite friend?

• What amazing things can Wolverine do? Why is he described as “indestructible”?

• What do Little Thunder and Wolverine like to do together?

• How long is the great eel?

• What happens when Wolverine tries to catch the great eel? Does he succeed?

• Why do you think Little Thunder and Wolverine are such good friends?

• What do you think makes someone a good friend?

Follow-up Activities• Spend some time talking about who the Mi’kmaq Peoples are and the

petroglyphs in Nova Scotia. The Nova Scotia Museum has info to get you started: https://museum.novascotia.ca/resources/mikmaq. You can find petroglyph samples here: http://www.muiniskw.org/pgHistory3b.htm.

• Look at more of Alan Syliboy’s art: http://www.alansyliboy.ca/petroglyph-humans/. How is it similar to the petroglyphs? How is it different?

Classroom Connections: language arts, art, social studies, history