News for March 13

News for March 13

This week the students were very busy! The big news of the week was our 100 Books party. On Friday we invited parents, staff and students to our celebration. Each of the students chose their favourite book and then wrote a book report about it. They also did an art activity based on their favourite part of the book using clear plastic, sharpie markers and chalk pastels.

The day of the party each student rotated jobs (e.g., keeping the floor clean; greeting guests at the door). On each desk was the student's book report and the book of poetry that they made. Early in the week the class measured how tall, how long and how much the 100 books weighed. They also tallied the number of fiction/non-fiction books, boy author/girl author, and hardcover/softcover books. We also made posters illustrating this information and made a video to show on our TV news and at the party.

We finished listening to the CD of "The Composer is Dead" by Lemony Snicket. This is a mystery story that also reviews the different instruments of the orchestra.

The students did (and wrote about) an experiment making wool felt (another way to make fleece stronger). They each put a piece of fleece in one of their shoes and at the end of the day, all that pressure, heat and sweat did a great job of felting the fleece into a solid piece of wool fabric.

In math, the students continued to learn about Canadian coins and learned a game using pennies and dimes and one die to "roll to $1.oo". They then wrote about their strategies on how to win the game.

Friday afternoon, the children each made a new art journal. They folded, decorated, put beads in the binding and sewed the paper to the cover. We made 19 journals in less than one hour!