The new format for our weekly blog posts is to show a summary of the week's events in the classroom as always and to post an interview of a Davisville P.S./MTSD staff member in the form of a podcast (audiofile). Pairs of students will do a radio-like interview. Next week, the first "Room 5 Radio" postcast interview of Mr. Zamora will be posted.
This week the students finished the geometry unit in math by folding circles into 3D shapes and building math sculptures. We started the unit on on multiplication (3) and 2-digit addition (2).
In science we talked about what makes a good structure (stability, strength, centre of gravity). The students worked in pairs in the "tower challenge". The challenge was to create the tallest structure possible using only 3 pieces of paper, a metre of string and a metre of tape. Over a few days the students learned from doing and from each other and created a range of possible structures.
The students learned how to draw cartoon style characters and wrote a short story to create their own comics. These are on display in the hall outside our class.
We made a display of our handprints and the handprints of Room 202 and our pen pals from the grade 3 class at the lab school at the University of Toronto. We sent off our letters to our friends this week.
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