2009年4月22日星期三

Today's Short Lesson !!!!

1. What are the regions of Canada we have learned about?
We learn Canada of regions are St.Lawrence Lowland The Arctic Coastal Plains The Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowland .
2. Choose one region, and tell me how your life would be like in this region. Use 5-8 sentences.
My favorite is The Arcit Coastal Plain.Because they have many animal live there. my favortie animal is Lemming, so cute and lovely. my favorite flower is arctic cotton grass.Because is small and likely. and my favorite place is Northwest Territories because was very big and wonderful it. i will come this region to live.
3. Look at your older posts, what vocabulary words have I asked you to translate? List all of them here.
Lake Sturgeon:湖鲟
Saint:圣 圣人 圣徒
geese :鹅
Forest:森林
Coniferous: 结球果的, 松柏科的
deciduos:1.【生】(在某个生长期或季节)脱落的2.(每年)落叶的3.非永久的, 暂时的
Ocean current: 海流, 洋流
Plateau:高原
river valley:流域
fertile:肥沃
sedimentary rock:沉积岩

2009年4月21日星期二

St. Lawrence River


Questions




1. Find a map of the St. Lawrence River and post it. Explain what you see in 3-5 sentences.



I see long and big bright, it is very beatiful nightscape.And i see very cleanning river, behind the river is small buiding and bacrk forest. i like there.
2.Where is the St. Lawrence River in Canada? What provinces are around this river?



The St. Lawrence River of Canada very near Atlantic ocean, and also near Quebec, New Brunswick,Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador these provinces.

3. Inside this river, there are fish called Lake Sturgeon.

Translate "Lake Sturgeon" into Chinese or Korean.


Lake Sturgeon:湖鲟

4. Find a picture of Lake Sturgeon and post it. Explain what you see in 3-5 sentences.




I see very scary and dark fish, i don't want to eat this fish. The fish teeth was very sharp, and the color was very bad for me.I think this fish can eat meat, it was scared to me.

5. This river is very important to Canadian history because an explorer named "Jacques Cartier" wanted to use it to get to China! Find a picture of Jacques Cartier and post it here.



6. On St. Lawrence's Day in 1535, Jacques Cartier gave the saint's name to one small bay near the river's mouth, but by 1600, it was used to describe the entire river. Find a picture of Saint Laurence, the saint the river was named after. Post it and explain what you see in the picture using 3-5 sentences!


7. Translate "saint" into Chinese or Korean.

Saint:圣 圣人 圣徒
8. There are also lots of snow geese who come to the St. Lawrence River. Google a picture of this and post it here. Explain what you see in 3-5 sentences.



I see big and white geese,they was drink the water.It is very beautiful, i see them i was remember the princess.I hope i can have geese.
9. Translate "geese" into Chinese or Korean.
geese :鹅


10. What did you learn today? 3-5 sentences!
Today i learn the my place and animal of the St. Lawrence River.In this lesson, my favorite part is nightscrap.Because i like to look nightscrap, and the St. Lawrence River nightscrap was beatiful too.

Bonus


1. Why would the river be named after a saint who doesn't live in North America?
i think this person was very important to this country, or he make good happen to people, and people want remenber him, so make this river to his named.




2. Do people like to live along the river? Why? Explain in 3-5 sentences.
some people like live because the river place people think was very beatiful. and some people think libe in the river was very dangers. i think i want live near the river because the air was good.


3. Is there a river in China that is similar in importance to Chinese history? What is it? Post a picture of this river and tell me the name.

yes, it is yellow river.

2009年4月19日星期日

VEGETATION of the Great Lakes-St.Lawrence Lowland Region


1. What is the word for vegetation in Chinese or Korean. Translate and put it here.
vegetation:【植】生长; 发育; [集合词]植物, 植被, 植生, 草木
单调贫乏的生活
医】赘生物, 增殖体
2. There are a lot of broad-leafed forests in this region. What do these forests look like? Find a picture, post it and explain it in 3-5 sentence. What do you see?
I see many tree are living together, the Leaves are connect each other. so big, but not very beatiful.
3. What does a broad-leaf look like? Post a picture and explain what you think "broad" means.
i think the mean is big and ugly described the thing.
4. There are maple trees in this region. Find a picture of a maple tree. Post it.

5. What is the Chinese or Korean word for maple trees?
Maple tree :枫树
6. There are beech trees as well. Find a picture of a beech tree. Post it.


7. What is the Chinese or Korean word for beech trees?
Beech tree:山毛榉
8. There are also Hickory trees in this region. Find a picture of a hickory tree. Post it.


9. What is the Chinese or Korean word for hickory tree?
Hickory tree:山核桃树
10. In other places of the region, the vegetation is a mixed forest. It has a mix of both decidous and coniferous trees, such as maple, beech, oak, ash, and birch, along with spruce, fir, pine and cedar. Find a picture of a mixed forest. Post it! Explain what "mixed" means!

I think the mean is something make together to object.

11. Find a picture of an oak tree.Find a picture. Post it.



12. What is the Chinese or Korean word for it?
Oak tree:橡树


13. What is a spruce tree. Find a picture. Post it.




14. What is the Chinese or Korean word for it?
Spruce tree:云杉树

15. Find a picture of a pine tree. Post it.







16. What is the Chinese or Korean word for it?
Pine tree:松树
17. What is a cedar tree? Find a picture. Post it.



18. What is the Chinese or Korean word for it?
Cedar tree:雪松树


19. What did you learn from this lesson? Explain in 8-12 sentences.
i learn many tree about Canada. so wonderful, there tree are the best tree in the world. and i like the color of the tree.and also the shape i was very like it.

Bonus

20. What is your favorite tree? Why? Explain in 5 -8 sentences
my favorite tree is oak tree. becauses it was very big and wonderful. and the color i also like it, i my house have many oak tree.

2009年4月14日星期二

The Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowland Continued... !!!

This Region's Climate
The climate is essentially a humid continental climate.It is humid because of the presence of the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes tend to cool the temperature during the summer. By storing heat, the Great Lakes warm the surrounding areas in winter. Winters vary from cool to cold, and summers from warm to hot.

Question
1. Translate the word humid into Chinese or Korean. Post it here.
Humid:湿的, 湿气重
2. What does humid mean? Explain in your own words using 3-5 sentences.
weather was very d

3. How can the Great Lakes cool the temperature during the summer? What do you think happens?
may be many people wil came there, and to swim in the beach.


4. Find a photograph of Lake Michigan. Explain what you see in the picture using 3-5 sentences.
i see the blueful beach,



5. Find a photograph of Lake Superior. Explain what you see in the picture using 3-5 sentences.



6. Find a photograph of Lake Erie. Explain what you see in the picture using 3-5 sentences.


i see big sea, and have lot of sand. near the sea is the forest, many are visit the forest. i like there.
7. Find a photograph of Lake Huron. Explain what you see in the picture using 3-5 sentences.




8. Find a photograph of Lake Ontario. Explain what you see in the picture using 3-5 sentences.Did you know the Great Lakes can be remembered by the word "home"? H is for? O is for? M is for? E is for? S is for?
i see blue sky, shnny sun, one boy, silver sea.
9. Why is this region a good place for agriculture? Tell me three reasons and explain in 5-8 sentences.




10. What did you learn today? Explain in 5-8 sentences.
Today i learn many Lakes about Canada, it is very beatiful, i these Lakes was very important to Canada. i very like Ontario Lake because have moutain, river, forest and beach. it is good place to live.

Bonus
1. Why do you think people would want to live in this region? Explain in 5-8 sentences.

2009年4月12日星期日

The Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowland !!!!

Questions

The Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowland is the smallest geographical region in Canada. It includes the triangle formed by Lakes Huron, Ontario, and Erie.

1. Find a picture of this region. Post it and explain what you see in the picture in 3-5 sentences




I see in this picture. there was have many different kind of shape.and the river have many grass.


TOPOGRAPHY

The region contains several escarpments.


2. Translate the word escarpment into Chinese or Korean.

escarpment:悬崖
3. What is escarpment? Use 3 sentences to explain what it is.

1. a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion2. a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification

4. Find a picture of the Niagara Escarpment in this region.


5. The topography of the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowland has a rolling landscape made by glaciation. Find a picture of a rolling landscape (it does not have to be in this region) and explain what you see in 3-5 sentences.
I see many grass on the ground, have three horses in there. also there have many tree, it is good place to live.

6. What is glaciation? Translate into Chinese or Korean.
glaciation:冰川


7. Explain in English 3-5 sentences. What is glaciation?
The condition of being covered with glaciers or masses of ice; the result of glacial action2. the process of covering the earth with glaciers or masses of ice, and have different bear living in the glaciation. glaciation weather are very cold, no more people want to live there.

9. Find a picture of glaciation. Explain what you see in 3-5 sentences.
so many ice in the mountain, have different shape of ice, but i feel was very cold about the weather.

10. There are also flat plains in this region. What do flat plains look like? Find a picture and explain what you see in 3-5 sentences.

i like flat plains it is very beautiful, this place are very greenly, but no horses, and also the weather was very bad.

11. There are also deep river valleys. What do they look like? Find a picture and explain what you see in 3-5 sentences.
The river valley was very big, the top on the mountain have many cloud,and also have river.The river shape was different, also the mountain was greenly and straight.

12. Find a picture of the Great Lakes. Explain what you see in the picture in 3-5 sentences.
i see the earth ,Great Lake are behind the Ontario, and shape are look like eggplant or vegetable.


13. What is the name of each Great Lake?



14. What did you learn about the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowland region.
I learn so many beautiful place in the Great Lakes-St.Lawrence Lowland region, some of place it is good for live for example rolling landscape is best place to live. and also i learn the 5 Great Lake of Canada.

Bonus
1 . How do you think glaciation changed the way land looks today? Explain in 3-5 sentences.

2009年4月8日星期三

The Arctic Coastal Plains


The Arctic Coastal Plains is another region of Canada.
The region in Canada is in the north so this area has cold and snowy winters. It is different from the Appalachian Region. The Yukon Territories, Northwest Territories and Nunavut have a little bit of this region
!
Questions:1. From the website, what animals are found in this region? List three animals
.
1.arctic hare 2.seals 3.lemming

2. Find a picture for one animal in this region. Choose one from Question 1.

lemming


3. What kind of vegetation is found in this region? List three plants.

1.arctic cotton grass 2.lichen 3.poppies

4. Find a picture for one plant in this region. Choose one from Question 3.

arctic cotton grass


5. Is this region different from the Appalachian region? Tell me one thing that is different.

There have different kind of flower, beautiful than the Appalachian region.

6. Find a picture of the Yukon Territories.
7. Find a picture of Nunavut.

8. Find a picture of the Northwest Territories.



9. How would you feel if you had to live in this region? (3-5 sentences)

If i live in this region , i will very happy. Because there have many beautiful flowers, i can buy house from mountain. Also i will take my family to came to this region.

10. If you had to go to the Arctic Coastal Plains, what would you bring with you?

Frist I will bring money , prety cloth, about region book, cell, notebook to study, and pet.

Bonus

1. Why is learning about different regions in Canada important?
Because Canada is very beatiful place to live, so Candian people try they best to protect they country, and Canada is my family best way to live, the region is very inportant to Canada.

2009年4月6日星期一

Learning !!!


1.Write 5-8 sentences on what you have learned in this class.
I learn so many things about Canada, first day Ms Chan teach we us about Canada flag,and also teach we us what is provinces, how many provinces does Canada have?..... we make PPT about provinces-Newfoundland and Labrador and share each of classmate to watch, and we make a blog, we do homework on the blog, so interesting, i have lot of time didn't writething on the blog, on blog i know special thing, for example Winnie pooh, is in my child year old favourite book, but i don't know winne is Canada symbol,and also we study gergophy about Canada, i know region, mountain, topography, clmate, river, coal, oil, plateau............ . it's not hard for me!!!!
2. Give yourself a mark out of 10. How much have you worked in class? Do you try your best?
I give my mark 9/10, i work soso, but i try doing beat!!!