Another busy week, as we counted down the days (with our advent calendar!) to the winter holidays.
The big news was our school's Holiday Concert on Thursday night. The children's performance was amazing and they charmed the audience with their introductions to the songs.
The students worked in pairs to complete their geometry discovery project, investigating the different shapes that can be made using 4 right angle triangles. We also had some time to talk about Roman Numerals (from 1=I to 12= XII).
Everyday this week the children went to the gym to have a holiday sing-a-long. This is always a lot of fun with the whole school stomping to the thumpity thump thump in "Frosty the Snowman" and doing the actions to "The 12 Days of Christmas".
We counted the number of words on our word wall - 81 words this term! The children solved and created word search puzzles using these words.
We made fudge to serve at our class party. Simply using low heat, we melted chocolate chips (340g package) and sweetened condensed milk (300 ml can) together. Then the liquid fudge was poured into a 20 cm by 20 cm pan and left it in the fridge overnight. The fudge was cut into squares and enjoyed by all.
We were lucky to have the author Joan Yolleck come to our class this week. We read her book, "Paris in the Spring with Picasso" and the next day she came to Room 5 to "test" her new book with the students. She read the story of the jazz singer Nina Simone (who was a child prodigy on the piano). The children gave Ms. Yolleck good comments and asked interesting questions that
We were lucky to have the author Joan Yolleck come to our class this week. We read her book, "Paris in the Spring with Picasso" and the next day she came to Room 5 to "test" her new book with the students. She read the story of the jazz singer Nina Simone (who was a child prodigy on the piano). The children gave Ms. Yolleck good comments and asked interesting questions that
will help her make the book even better.The students worked with partners to film their magnet man movies this week. These movies will be posted on our sister blog at:
We listened to the winter movement of Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" in honour of the first day of winter on December 21. We also reviewed where the earth is in the orbit around the sun and why Canada experiences the cold (due to the tilt of the earth).
In computers, the students watched movies of snowflake crystals being formed. The website is:
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