News for March 27

News for March 27

This week in math the students reviewed and continued to learn about money.

The class "conducted" the spring movement of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. Ms. Lindsay brought in her clarinet and talked about how it works. We also listened to many types of music that feature the clarinet. She also played a beautiful song!

The students honoured their personal questions about the world by writing a little book that lists these questions. Later we will be choosing and researching one of these questions per child.

Our fairy tale unit continues with the class hearing the story of Goldilocks, The Three Little Pigs, Rumpelstiltskin, Thumbelina and Jack and the Beanstalk. The student's have created a fairytale "checklist" to help them recognize the features of fairy tales in each story. The children reviewed how to use a Venn diagram, and used one to compare what was the same and what was different in the stories The Three Little Pigs and Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The students have begun to plan their own retell of the story Jack and the Beanstalk.

The students reviewed the parts of speech learned so far, nouns, adjectives and verbs. They learned about adverbs and how adverbs make writing more interesting. They also did a "Madlibs" exercise to help them write a crazy fairy tale by identifying the parts of speech.

The class learned more about how pioneers lived their lives. The children made looms out of cardboard and used the wool they dyed to learn to weave, a skill important to the pioneers. They are creating wall hangings using natural materials (wool, fleece, wood).

The class was very happy to get the new batch of letters from their pen pals this week. Their friends also made them some origami bookmarks. They started to write letters back at the end of the week.