News for October 23

News for October 23

For our read aloud this week, the class enjoyed hearing the non-fiction chapter book, "Christian the Lion". This is a story of a lion cub that was raised for a year in London, England then re-introduced to the wild in Africa. The focus for the class was, since this is a book with very few pictures, to use the strategy of making a picture (or movie) in your mind in order to follow the details of the story. The students did an art response using photos from the book and finally, we saw a video of the real people from the book when the lion was reunited with Ace and John (after the lion lived in Kenya for a year).

The students worked hard to finish their rock story books. We focused on adjectives this week and they were to include lots of adjectives in their stories to make the stories more interesting to read. After doing the good copy, they measured and cut a front and back cover, then bound the pages and cover together with wire and the rock that inspired the story.

In math, we continued the measurement unit by practising the understanding of a centimeter, meter and kilometer and the concept of perimeter (the distance around a figure) was introduced.

The children all learned how to use and iron and then they each ironed their pieces of purple and orange fabric. Finally, each student learned how to use the sewing machine and sewed the two pieces of fabric together. Now the pillows are ready to be stuffed and sewn shut next week.

In computers, the children started to use a new comic creating program to create a virtual classroom. The task this week was to for each student to create a character based on him/herself (also known as an avatar). We will be using this format over the next few weeks to create comics and to communicate with each other.