This week the class worked hard to finish off their poetry books. They wrote a new poem based on the nursery rhyme classic "Little Jack Horner".
The students learned more about how wool was used in daily life during pioneer times. They finished dyeing the wool and learned how to card and spin fleece. They experimented to learn why spinning fleece makes it stronger (see Raika and Sophia demonstrate "the power of the twist" in a video in this blog).
In music, the students heard a second version of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" this time by Elton John, to compare with the version by the Beatles. Each child worked to write their own lyrics to this song. We then "blended" the students' new lyrics together and recorded the class singing the Room 5 version. This will be posted this week.
In math, the workbook group finished off the unit on division and the clipboard group continued to learn to tell digtal and analog time to the quarter hour.
The class finished their abstract art painting by creating a collage of a large letter with smaller words and images that begin with that letter on the large letter. These are now on display in our classroom.
Our school began a fundraiser by collecting a lot of pennies. The students used their "ten frame" strategy to count the over 1 kilogram of pennies we had every day (yes...we weighed them!).
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