February 12 News
The class packed a lot into this four-day week. On Monday, the students listened to the grade 4 speech arts speeches. This was to help the students understand what is involved when they are in grade 4.
In math, the class continued to work on "data management" by doing surveys, creating graphs and discussing what information can be taken from the graphs. One survey the children did was to do a "taste test" of 3 kinds of potato chips. They tallied the answers to the questions "Which is your favourite potato chip?" Then they graphed the information and wrote about the results. The most popular chip in our class was a Pringles-style chip.
The children continued to work on their cursive letters. So far they have done a, b, c, d, g, q, i, u, y.
The students were busy finishing their Woolly Hoodwinks characters. Students worked in pairs to write and perform a "movie" using their new pals. They are responsible for creating the story, the opening and closing credits, performing the movie and the music. These movies will be posted next week on http://planet5movies.blogspot.com/.
The class learned the history of the Valentine's Day celebration. They learned how to fold and cut a circle of hearts and made valentines and decorated bags for the valentine exchane. We had a fun celebration on Thursday afternoon.
We started the unit on poetry and discussed what a poem is.
In computers, we watched short movies of snowflakes forming and used their knowledge of nouns, adjectives and verbs to create funny MadLibs. Check out these sites:
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