December 3 News

December 3 News by Raika and Liam

This week we finished our pillows and wrote stories about how to make a pillow. My favourite part was using the fabric crayons (Liam). I liked sewing up the opening with a needle and yellow thread. I liked teaching the students how to use a sewing machine (Ms. R).

In music, we learned the song "Bravo Bravissimo" and "O Sole Mio". We listened to Luciano Pavarotti and Bryan Adams sing a duet of that song (due = two in Italian).

In math we used what we know about 2D shapes (polygons) to help us design building. I designed a building for a vet (Raika) and I designed a school (Liam). We wrote about how many different kinds of shapes were in each building.

We went to the gym to see Dufflebag Theatre perform "A Christmas Carol". Sara from our class was asked to go in the play and be a girl called Victoria. She did a really good job. In our opinion the play was funny.

We made kirigami snowflakes (that's Japanese for cut + paper). We glued them to black piece of paper and wrote our names with chalk on them. These are now on the wall in our classroom.

We worked with tangrams. The more we did the puzzles the faster we got. Each student designed their own tangram puzzle. I did Dracula (Liam) and I did a puppy with big ears (Raika). We then tried to do everyones puzzles and we could do one in 30 seconds or less.

Each student picked a famous Italian person. We made posters and on the poster we put stenciled their last name at the top. We also wrote research facts about the person on the poster. Finally we put on a map of where they were born in Italy.

We did drama plays with Ms. Adeodu. The story was "Strega Nona Meets Her Match". I played the part of Big Anthony (Liam) and I played the part of Strega Nona and the narrator (Raika).

We said good bye to Ms. Adeodu this week. We hope she becomes a great teacher!

Ciao! from Liam and Raika