News for May 8

News for May 8

This week was very busy for the students of Room 5.

On Monday Policewoman Marcie visited our class to talk about personal safety. On Tuesday, Darryl taught the class how to make mugs out of clay (these will be fired in a kiln and brought back in a few weeks to be painted). On Wednesday the grade threes were at a school track and field event all day. On Thursday the children's book author Rakhsana Khan came to our school to talk about being a writer and about her books.

In math, the students continued the unit on fractions. This week we concentrated on fractions of a set of objects. The children wrote about how to make an origami fraction book (we made these last week) and the stories and books are now on display in our hallway.

We finished the chapter book Pioneer Cat and the class discussed and then wrote about the "big idea" in the story. The class generated some very good ideas (The story is about survival/friendship/caring) and worked on using their own ideas and ideas from the story to back up their choices.

In music, we started to learn the song that we will be performing at the school concert on May 21st.

We began our new science unit on soil and plants. The students learned about what soil is, looked at soil with magnifying glasses (for example, stones, shells, leaves). The children each planted some grass seed and we are now waiting to see what happens next!

And finally, as the families will know by now, the students worked very hard to create painted and collaged artwork for Mother's Day.