News for November 25
This week the students were invited to an art show put on by the grade 7 and 8 students from Spectrum
Alternative School (now housed on the third floor of our school). The students spent almost an hour viewing the art, talking to the artists and writing down information on their clipboards. Next the students wrote letters to the students thanking them for inviting them to their show and writing about what they liked about the show. Then the grade 3's wrote a group letter to the students. Finally, the grade three's delivered the group letter and the individual letters to Spectrum, where they presented the letters to the students.
Alternative School (now housed on the third floor of our school). The students spent almost an hour viewing the art, talking to the artists and writing down information on their clipboards. Next the students wrote letters to the students thanking them for inviting them to their show and writing about what they liked about the show. Then the grade 3's wrote a group letter to the students. Finally, the grade three's delivered the group letter and the individual letters to Spectrum, where they presented the letters to the students.
As part of our jellybean project, the class counted the number of jellybeans that our class used to make our jellybean art. Using empty egg cartons, they used what they know about "10" to help them count (that is 10 groups of 10 equal 100).
In math, the students finished up the measurement unit on time by looking at and calculating "elapsed time" (the time passing from one event to another event). The class reviewed temperature measurement in degrees Celsius, noting that at 100 degrees C (water boils), 20 degrees C (room temperature) and 0 degrees C (water freezes). They started the measurement unit on money by reviewing the properties of the six coins of Canadian currency, learning the history of Canadian currency and began reviewing the different ways to count money.
The students did a class study of the Robert Munsch book "I Want My Dad Back!". They reviewed text features, standard parts of a story and began to learn how to write a summary of the story in five sentences (as opposed to a more detailed story retell).
The class continued to listen to the book, The Iron Man, and practiced orally summarizing the events in each chapter.
In math, the students finished up the measurement unit on time by looking at and calculating "elapsed time" (the time passing from one event to another event). The class reviewed temperature measurement in degrees Celsius, noting that at 100 degrees C (water boils), 20 degrees C (room temperature) and 0 degrees C (water freezes). They started the measurement unit on money by reviewing the properties of the six coins of Canadian currency, learning the history of Canadian currency and began reviewing the different ways to count money.
The students did a class study of the Robert Munsch book "I Want My Dad Back!". They reviewed text features, standard parts of a story and began to learn how to write a summary of the story in five sentences (as opposed to a more detailed story retell).
The class continued to listen to the book, The Iron Man, and practiced orally summarizing the events in each chapter.In science, the children learned about salt and how salt is mined. We even have a Himalayan salt lamp in our class now! The class also read and took notes on articles about mining and fossils. Since metals (in ore) and fossils (in sedimentary rock) need to be separated from other rock in order to be useful, the students had a chance to see how difficult it would be by trying to separate chocolate chips from the rest of a baked cookie. They used knives, spoons and toothpicks to help them. It was a lot harder to do than you might think! The class also had a chance to view a DVD about the Arctic and Antarctica.
Books Read Aloud This Week
Books Read Aloud This WeekI Want My Dad Back by Robert Munsch
The Iron Man by Ted Hughes (chapters 3 and 4)
Currency by Barb McDermott and Gail McKeown
Metals by Andrew Langley
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