News for October 14
It was a short week but there was a lot going on in Room 5.
On Monday, the students got to see a play by the Little Red Theatre called "Selkiemaid". It's a Scottish folktale about a seal that sheds its skin and transforms into a girl.
The students were all tested in reading this week. At this time of year, the TDSB requires all students to have their reading levels determined by the standardized tests DRA (grade 3) and CASI (grade 4).
The students each chose a rock (or did the rock choose them?) to use as inspiration for a fiction story. Each child planned the details of his/her story and began to write the rough copy in their journals.
The class reviewed the four main parts of speech this week: noun, adjective, verb and adverb. The students need to know the function of each one and how to recognize the different types of words in a sentence.
In math, the students cracked the number pattern on our class calendar. It's a famous growing pattern named after the Italian mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci (1170-1250). The pattern rule is to get the next number, you add the previous two terms (numbers). For example, 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, etc. Actually, this pattern was known in 6th century India, but Fibonacci wrote about it in his "Book of Calculations" so it was named after him. Fibonnaci is also credited with popularizing the Hindu-Arabaic number system (0-9 and place value) to replace the use of Roman Numerals.
In math, the students cracked the number pattern on our class calendar. It's a famous growing pattern named after the Italian mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci (1170-1250). The pattern rule is to get the next number, you add the previous two terms (numbers). For example, 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, etc. Actually, this pattern was known in 6th century India, but Fibonacci wrote about it in his "Book of Calculations" so it was named after him. Fibonnaci is also credited with popularizing the Hindu-Arabaic number system (0-9 and place value) to replace the use of Roman Numerals.
The children learned about how to round numbers to a specific place value. For example, to round 456 to the nearest tens place, the answer is 460. Rounding helps students estimate answers more easily. We also practiced other strategies for estimating.
In computers, the student visited a site to play a game to review their understanding of <, >, =. Here is the link:
http://www.free-training-tutorial.com/place-value/greaterthan.html
To help the children understand the importance of punctuation, the class attempted to read a story this week that had no spaces or capitals or periods. It was really hard! After reading the second version written properly, the students then had to correct the original version. We don't want to live in a world without punctuation!
To help the children understand the importance of punctuation, the class attempted to read a story this week that had no spaces or capitals or periods. It was really hard! After reading the second version written properly, the students then had to correct the original version. We don't want to live in a world without punctuation!The students wrote their rock questions on post-it notes and they are now on the board above our rock display. Judging by the different questions the students asked, we have a lot of research to do!
Read aloud books this week:
The Little Red Pen by Thomas Allen
Bone Button Borsht by Aubrey Davis
Julian by Dayal Kaur Khalsa
Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
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