JN Mystery Class :: Weeks Five & Six

We have continued working on our Journey North Mystery Class charts. I am only behind in posting our updates!

Update for February 27 sunrise & sunset data

Celeste helps too!

Update for March 5 sunset & sunrise data

Tomorrow we received Longitude Clues as well as the sunrise and sunset data! Here is a link to a helpful teacher's practice packet.
Another helpful link is for the slideshow: A Clue About Longitude Clues.
We like to use the form below to calculate our longitude clues. I am not sure where I first found this form. I wish I could give credit to whoever created this!


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Mystery Class # _________	Sunrise in UT/GMT and Date
Step #1 Fill in Sunrise Time and Date GMT/UT	BOX A ____________time ______________date
Step #2 Fill in Greenwich Sunrise Time on March 20	BOX B 06:02 am
Step #3 Difference in hours and minutes between A and B	BOX C _____________hours ___________minutes
Step #4 Convert hours into minutes from BOX C	BOX D ___________minutes
Step #5 Divide by the number in Box D by 4	BOX E __________degrees
Step #6 Eastern or Western	BOX F East or West

Our next home...on Prince Edward Island!

We haven't found a home yet, but our current house in Ontario is sold. We will be moving out at the end of May. My husband is already living and working on PEI. We are all looking forward to this move and can't wait to be together again under the same roof.

Sandstone Arch - Prince Edward Island - photo from Wikipedia

We are also looking forward to exploring the East Coast of Canada and the Island especially. PEI has so much to offer, history, culture, nature, and so much more. I will try to share our discoveries as much as possible with you on this blog, until then I will be busy packing (but still sharing our favourite books every Monday and whatever else of interest along the way).

Book Sharing Monday :: LMNO peas

LMNO Peas by Keith Baker is a very cute and fun alphabet book focusing on occupations.

My youngest loves this book and I think it's wonderful that it shows so many different types of jobs people do with great illustrations.

"We are peas - alphabet peas! We work and play in the ABCs."

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Book Sharing Monday :: Robot Drawing Book

Ralph Masiello has a great series of drawing books. We have enjoyed the Bug Drawing Book, the Dragon Drawing Book, and the Ancient Egypt Drawing Book.

This time, we checked out the Robot Drawing Book from our local library. Andre and I tried our hand at some robots while we were watching a movie Friday night.

We particularly liked that each page gave us a  basic robot to draw and that we could add details "spare parts" to make each robot unique.

Extra resources can be found at the back of the book, books and websites for younger and older robot fans.

"If you can draw a square, a circle, and a rectangle, you can draw a ROBOT!"

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Lots of Dr Seuss Goodness!

We have been having so much fun reading a lot of Dr. Seuss books this week!