News for November 4

News for November 4

This week the class started a new math unit on measurement. This week we focused on linear measurement and the standard units, millimetre, centimetre, metre and kilometre. The students reviewed the use of non-standard units and the reason for having standard units. They learned ways to estimate using body parts for the 4 linear measurement units and measured objects around the classroom.

In writing, the students practiced how to use adjectives and metaphors to describe a character. As it was Halloween, the students wrote a description of a monster. Since the students each made a caramel apple for our Halloween celebration, each child wrote instructions for making carmel apples. The children also reviewed the parts of speech for the grades (noun, plural noun, proper noun, adjective, verb and adverb) and used this knowledge to write Mad Libs stories.

The students are now working in groups to write a story and develop the story into a movie.

In science, the students watched a DVD about mining.
We discussed peace this week in relation to Remembrance Day. The students learned a song with American Sign Language signs in preparation for our performance at the school assembly next Friday. The students learned the history of the peace symbol and created a large artwork using images of peace. The children also wrote a 33-word message for peace and wrote it on paper with a half-folded paper crane. (The class is now halfway to our goal of 1000 paper cranes, with 500 made so far.)

Books read aloud this week:

The Tailypo by Joanna Gladstone

Follow the Line Around the World by Laura Ljungkvist

Domo in the World by Kate T. Williamson

Sadako by Eleanor Coer