News for September 30This week the students participated in the annual Terry Fox Run on Wednesday. The class learned about his battle with bone cancer, his dream for a cure for cancer and his run across Canada to raise money for research. After we sorted and counted the coins the children donated, we found that our class raised $50.04! Well done Room 5!
The class began our learning (or reviewing) of cursive writing this week. Cursive is important to know how to read and can be a good choice for some children to increase their writing speed. Each child has his/her own workbook. This week we learned the letters "a" and "c".
The students learned how to use a Venn diagram (overlapping circles) to compare two things and look at what is the same and what is different. First the children compared Domo to Ms.. R! Then they compared Terry Fox and Winter the dolphin. They learned that the Venn diagram was developed by the mathematician and inventor John Venn (1834-1923).
The students learned about words with the suffix "-ible" (e.g., terrible, horrible, visible) and "-able" (e.g., dependable, comfortable, preventable). They learned there are many more "-able" words than "-ible" words in English and that "-able" words usually have a complete word as a root word (of course, there are exceptions!)
The students learned about words with the suffix "-ible" (e.g., terrible, horrible, visible) and "-able" (e.g., dependable, comfortable, preventable). They learned there are many more "-able" words than "-ible" words in English and that "-able" words usually have a complete word as a root word (of course, there are exceptions!)In math, the students continued to practice addition and subtraction strategies and review and deepen their understanding of place value. They also learned and played some games to help them practice. One game uses place value blocks to race to 100. This game ensures that students understand the "trading" of 10 one-blocks for one ten-block (a fact often forgotten by junior grade students). Another game used playing cards to help the children understand how to use what they know about addition facts to help them with subtraction.
Each child began to make a pillow this week. In our class, children use pillows for when they do independent reading and when we watch videos. This week they each designed a piece of fabric using a Sharpie and fabric dye pastels. They even learned how to use the heat of an iron to set the coloured dye!
We began our science unit on rocks this week. First, the students were asked what they think they already know about rocks. Then we had a wonderful discussion around the questions that the children had about rocks. Are magnets rocks? Are rocks the same on the earth and the moon? Why are rocks so heavy? We will use these questions to help guide our class research. We are also setting up a discovery table for rocks and rock information and students were asked to bring in any materials to add to this table.
One fact we learned this week, as the result of a student bringing in a glass sculpture, was the name for a geometric figure with 14 faces (basically a cube with the corners cut off). It's called a tetrakaidecahedron (18 letters!)
Each child began to make a pillow this week. In our class, children use pillows for when they do independent reading and when we watch videos. This week they each designed a piece of fabric using a Sharpie and fabric dye pastels. They even learned how to use the heat of an iron to set the coloured dye!
We began our science unit on rocks this week. First, the students were asked what they think they already know about rocks. Then we had a wonderful discussion around the questions that the children had about rocks. Are magnets rocks? Are rocks the same on the earth and the moon? Why are rocks so heavy? We will use these questions to help guide our class research. We are also setting up a discovery table for rocks and rock information and students were asked to bring in any materials to add to this table.One fact we learned this week, as the result of a student bringing in a glass sculpture, was the name for a geometric figure with 14 faces (basically a cube with the corners cut off). It's called a tetrakaidecahedron (18 letters!)
Read aloud books for this week:
Terry Fox - A story of hope by Maxine Trottier
Dolphin Tale (book adaptation of the movie) + Bottlenose dolphin facts
Everybody Needs a Rock by Byrd Baylor
Ask Albert Einstein by Lynne Barasch
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