On Thursday evening, the school presented our spring concert. The children did an excellent job! It was wonderful to see all the families in attendance.This week the students spent a lot of time researching and talking about the big changes that have happened to the painted lady caterpillars. Look for the details in a separate posting.
In math, the class continued to fold paper tetrahedrons (tetrahedra) and created wonderful multi-unit sculptures that are now hanging in our classroom. They also learned how to take the basic folded unit to make an octahedron (8 faces) and icosahedron (20 faces). Some students linked 8 units together to make a "torus ring", a movable sculpture that turns around itself. See a video of these at the end of this posting.
In preparation for a number of activities, including the next fiction story writing, the students began to sew and stuff creatures out of socks using the sewing machine and hand sewing on button eyes, arms and tails.
The students used what they know about symmetry and cursive writing to create a colourful pieces of art that looks like a bunch of insects or aliens. These are now on display in our hallway.
The children are making a lot of progress with their corking! One student (see photo) measured her corking at almost 2 metres.
The students learned about the sport of "speed stacking". This is a popular activity all around the world. The goal is to stack and unstack plastic cups as fast as possible. There is now a speed stacking club that meets every Friday at lunchtime in Room 5. Check out the world champion at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyU5v0ZYMjI .
On Wednesday, half of the class went to York University to participate in a full day track and field event.
In computers, the students reviewed geometry using the following online game:
http://www.coolmath-games.com/O-shapezoid/index.com
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