News for April 30
This week, the big news was our school assembly and our class was in charge. The students did a lot of writing, planning and practising. Despite several serious computer problems that disrupted the program, the children managed the changes very well. The students loved showing their work in the movies we have made during the year.
In math, the children finished the unit on motion geometry by reviewing flips/turns/slides and moving around points on a grid. On Friday, we started the unit on probability by doing math experiments to help predict how many red and blue cubes were in a sealed box.
As a class we have enjoyed listening to read alouds of five of the Martha the dog books by Susan Meddaugh. We did reading response activities to help the children learn how to write complete answers to questions like, "Why do you think Bob the dog was so mean? Use your own ideas and information from the text in your answer." Finally, the students each picked their favourite of the Martha books and started to write a book report.
In science the bean seeds started to sprout. The students took 2 of the three beans growing on the moist paper towel and planted them in soil. They drew and wrote observations each day, learning the parts of the plants and asking questions. Two class experiments were to give one plant too much water and to put one plant in the dark to see how they grow.
The class learned the cursive letters b, e, l, f, n and m.
In computer class, the students visited the website for the Martha the dog books at:
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