News for November 11This week the class used what they know about measurement to look at the food we collected for the Spectrum Food Drive. The grade three's counted the food (22 pieces), weighed the food (7 kg), made the tallest stable structure possible (112 cm) and made the longest line possible along the floor (286 cm). The students even managed to figure out that a square package's longest length is its diagonal. The students then wrote a letter to Spectrum informing them of their findings, followed by a presentation to the grade four students.
The children worked with Ms. Fletcher to learn about the concept of "point of view". The read the story, Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers. In this story, a boy finds a penguin and takes him to the South Pole but realized the penguin wasn't lost, he just wanted a friend. During the adventure, the penguin doesn't say a word. The challenge for the class was to give a voice to the penguin and to retell the story from the penguin's point of view. The students each wrote a good copy of his/her story and made a poster including an origami penguin. These stories are now on display in the hall outside of our classroom.
We now have over 500 paper cranes for our paper cranes for peace project. The children have started to string the cranes in groups of 50 to be part of a display. The students practised singing the words and using the American Sign Language signs, to perform our Remembrance Day song. Our class performed it during our school's assembly on Friday. The children did an excellent job doing their part to honour this solemn occasion.
The class finished up the linear measurement part of the current math unit by working with a partner to measure his/her height and reach (distance from fingertip to fingertip). They had to figure out if their body was "square" (height=reach), a "tall rectangle" (height>reach) or a "wide rectangle" (height
On Thursday, the author/illustrator Ian Wallace visited our school. He spoke about his job and read aloud one of his books. His animated retelling of his book really made the story come alive.
The students learned more about minerals. Minerals are pure substances, while rocks are mixtures of minerals. They learned that the colour, texture, hardness, weight and shape of the rocks are used to tell which kind of rock a sample is.
We now have over 500 paper cranes for our paper cranes for peace project. The children have started to string the cranes in groups of 50 to be part of a display. The students practised singing the words and using the American Sign Language signs, to perform our Remembrance Day song. Our class performed it during our school's assembly on Friday. The children did an excellent job doing their part to honour this solemn occasion.
The class finished up the linear measurement part of the current math unit by working with a partner to measure his/her height and reach (distance from fingertip to fingertip). They had to figure out if their body was "square" (height=reach), a "tall rectangle" (height>reach) or a "wide rectangle" (height
On Thursday, the author/illustrator Ian Wallace visited our school. He spoke about his job and read aloud one of his books. His animated retelling of his book really made the story come alive.The students learned more about minerals. Minerals are pure substances, while rocks are mixtures of minerals. They learned that the colour, texture, hardness, weight and shape of the rocks are used to tell which kind of rock a sample is.
Books read aloud this week:
Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers
Sadako and 1,000 Cranes by Eleanor Coer
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