News for February 5
On Friday we celebrated the 100 days of school! Pepper's class came to join us and we all did activities to help understand the number 100 better. The children danced for 100 seconds, filled out a grid of 100 rectangles with rubber stamps and markers, counted out 100 small candies and played with 100 marbles, football cards, popsicle sticks and more. Of course, 100 days means 100 crazy shirts of Mr. Lee! Our "100 chart" of 10 rows of 10 photos is now complete in the second floor west hallway.
In math, we started the data management unit. The students are learning how to collect data (using surveys and tally marks), create different kinds of graphs and talk about what information the graph gives.
We read the picture book The Woolly Hoodwinks Versus The Dark Patch and wrote detailed stories based on the book. The students also made their own Woolly Hoodwinks by hand and machine sewing fabric and making faces with buttons, beads and embroidery thread. The class also learned and practised how to make overhand knots and square knots. These stories will be displayed in our hallway next week.
The class began the cursive writing program. The grade two's are learning lower case and the grade 3's are learning the capital letters and reviewing the lower case letters.
In music, the class is beginning to learn about the instruments in an orchestra. This week we learned about the stringed instruments (violin, viola, cello, bass, harp). In dance the children practised moving to different kinds of music (classical, samba, rock) using long ribbons.
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