News for April 24
This week the students worked on the probability unit in math. They learned about the "chance" of getting heads/tails when tossing a coin (equally likely) or the numbers one to six on a die (equally likely). They made predictions about the number and colour of cubes in a bag and practised their understanding of certain, likely, unlikely and impossible.
In writing, the students practised writing a reading response that identified the parts of a story (characters, setting, problem, solution) and used parts of the story to support their opinion of what the story was about (e.g., point of view, kindness). The students learned about the word puzzles called "pangrams". These are sentences that have at least one of each letter of the alphabet. One of the most famous pangrams is "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." The students then took on the challenge of writing these sentences in cursive using a quill or feather pen, like people would write in pioneer times.
The students worked in their research groups to create posters for their pioneer projects. They also finished the models of their village buildings.
On April 22, the class learned about Earth Day and recycling. In computers they went to a site to learn more about how to help the earth (EeckoWorld - PBS KIDS GO, http://pbskids.org/eekoworld/ ).
On Friday, we had a school dance in the gym. The D.J. helped the children learn different dances and at the end we all went to get treats at the bake sale.
The Speed Stacking Club for grades 3-8 started this Wednesday at lunchtime. All the students in Room 5 are learning about how to speed stack. To learn more about this activity, go to http://www.speedstacks.com/
Watch Gabriel demonstrate a 2X3 (two groups of three) cup stacking:
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