News for November 27

News for November 27

This week the students did a unit on how movies tell a story. We watched, discussed and wrote about the movie, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (1971) based on the story by Roald Dahl. This is a story with a lot of imagination, from the names of the characters (ex. Mike Teevee) to the settings in the movie (ex. in Willy Wonka's office, everything is cut in half, even the sink!). The students examined the different characters and they compared Charlie with the other children in the story.

The students started a project to invent and design their own candy as an extension project to the movie. They thought about a company name, candy name and why someone should buy his/her candy instead of another candy (ex. "Eating this candy will make you smarter").

In computers, the class visited the Wonka website and played some creative games:
http://www.wonka.com/ .

In math, the grade 2 students finished the review of patterns (repeated, growing, shrinking) and they each made a long paper repeating pattern. The grade 3 students learned about 3 digit addition and subtraction, with and without regrouping (sometimes "we must regroup!")

The students learned about the useful tool called a Venn diagram and how to use it. Did you know the Venn diagram was designed by John Venn, an English mathematician around 1880? The class used this technique to compare the meaning of rural (country) and urban (city) and to compare characters in the movie they watched.

The whole school went to the gym to watch the "White Pine Dance Company". These dancers performed a number of different traditional First Nations dances and had very beautiful costumes complete with eagle feathers and porcupine fur!

The students, after many project hours, finally finished their letters that spelled "IMAGINATION ROOM 5". These are now on display in our classroom.