January 23 News

This week the students were busy finishing off their stories and art for their comics which are now on display in our hall. We did a week long guided reading project using the classic book, My
Father's Dragon. The class listened to chapters read aloud each day then did a variety of guided reading comprehension activitities.

In math, the grade three's learned about multiplication. They did activities that linked repeated addition to multiplication (ex. 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 4 X 2 = 8 ), arranging objects into arrays ( rows and columns) and "tricks" to remember muliplication facts. The grade two's explored two digit addition with regrouping using manipulatives and linking the operation to paper and pencil addition.

We started our Room 5 Radio interview show. See interviews posted every week.

In dance, the students moved to many different styles of music and learned how to use metre long ribbons in their dance movements.

In music, we learned two new songs. Kookaburra is about an Australian bird and the students learned how to sing it as a "round". We also learned a song about the sun called "Why Does The Sun Shine". From that song the class learned that the sun is millions of degrees hot, that it is so big that a million earths would fit inside and that it is only a middle-sized star.

We created hanging lanterns using Chinese lai-see envelopes. These will be part of our Chinese New Year celebrations.