News for December 2
This week the big news was our trip to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). We spent all day there and we did a lot of different things. First, our class met Ian, our ROM teacher, and he took us to a special classroom were the students got to see, touch and do experiments with different rocks and minerals. Next, the class went to the Rocks and Minerals gallery and saw a piece of a meteorite! There were lots of samples of different rocks and gemstones too. Then, we went downstairs to eat lunch. Then, the children went upstairs to see the David Hockney exhibit where he made pictures on iPads and iPhones. Finally, the class went to the Dinosaur exhibit where we saw lots and lots of dinosaurs!
In class, we continued the unit on Canadian money with a focus on counting money and making change. The students also learned the game "Roll to $1.00".
The students finally finished their posters explaining their jellybean art. They included the letters that they wrote to Kina and Greg and photos of the art. These posters are now on display in the stairwell by our classroom.
In preparation for Multicultural Night, the students began working on a puzzle of flags of the world. The students also created lots of flags to decorate the gym. In order to learn to identify flags, the class visited two sites to help them learn:
We began our new unit on Canada by learning the names and positions on the map of the 10 provinces and 3 territories. We also learned a song to help remember the order of the provinces from east to west.
We finished the read aloud book, The Iron Man, this week. This book was adapted into an animated movie and the class began watching the DVD in order to write a comparison/opinion essay on both the book and the movie.
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