This week the students worked hard in science to learn how to make strong and stable structures out of paper. They saw how folding or rolling paper into cylinders made the paper stronger. The students also learned that triangles are one of the strongest shapes and that a "strut" within a structure adds to strength and stability. The best structure held 46 books! We made a movie of this project and it's at the end of this post.
In math we began the unit on data management. The class reviewed sorting rules using two attributes. They learned about using tally marks to keep track of answers to a survey question. Then they practiced how to show this information on bar graphs and picographs (picture graphs). We also worked on interpreting the information in different graphs.
This photo is of the students in gym class this week.
The class learned about shape poems (also called concrete poems) and wrote some of their own. We also touched on how poets often compare things to give more information with fewer words, as in "my cat is as grey as a rainy day". They also wrote their own poems in this style.
The children learned about rhythms in poems as poems come "alive" when they are read out loud. To show this we practised saying poems and clapping the beats at the same time. (Clapping to the nursery rhyme "From Wibbleton to Wobbleton" was a class favourite.) Later in the week, the children read aloud the words/poetry/lyrics to some songs and listened to how the feeling of the words changed when they heard the songs played.
Our school bake sale, to raise money for aid to Haiti, was a great success. Thanks for all your support! The students wrote a non-fiction story about this important project.
In computers, the students visited the site:
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