November 26 News

November 26 News by Angie and Razan

This week we looked for different shapes in the classroom. The most common shape is a rectangle. We learned how to use Venn diagrams to sort things. We used shapes to create a building. I designed a building for an electronics company (Razan) and I designed a Chinese restaurant called "The Bowl" (Angie).

We photocopied a picture of the Mona Lisa (by Leonardo da Vinci). We coloured it with yellow food colouring and cut it out and glued it on white cardboard. We each designed our own background and gave Mona Lisa something to make her smile. I put her in the countryside and gave her a bowl of cherries (Angie) and I put her in a park with a bowl of strawberries and having a picnic (Razan).

We watched a Bugs Bunny cartoon that used the music of Rossini's The Barber of Seville. It was called the Rabbit of Seville. It was funny.

We listened to more opera, this time by the Italian composer Verdi. We listened to Ms. R read a book called "How Pizza Came To Our Town". It was about a town where they didn't know what pizza was until Ms. Pelligrino from Italy came to visit.

We made an advent calendar. Advent means arrival in Latin. We are counting the days until the winter holidays. On each day one student gets a package that has Italian candies, a maze, a pencil and a bouncy ball. There are 17 more days now until the holidays.

We read a book about William "Snowflake" Bentley who lived 143 years ago. He was famous for studying and taking pictures of snowflakes. He found out that snowflakes are hexagons and that they are all different.

We learned how to do kirigami (Japanese for cutting paper). And we cut paper snowflakes. The best part was when you opened up the snowflake to see what it looked like.

Arrivederci (that's Italian for good bye) from Razan and Angie