News for February 3
This week our class made a video to invite Mathew Ho and Asad Mohammed to be interviewed on our Room 5 Interview Show. These young men sent a Lego man into space and our class has been reading about them in the newspaper and watching them being interviewed on TV. This video can be seen in a separate posting.
In science, our student teacher Ms. Tan led the class through an exploration of strong and stable structures using straws and masking tape. The students worked in pairs to understand what makes a structure strong and stable. They each wrote a rough draft about what they learned and this information will be used to create posters next week. Students also took on the extension activity, The Kleenex Box Challenge. The challenge was to create the tallest, stable structure possible using 18 Kleenex boxes. The tallest so far is 161 centimetres!
In math the students began the unit on multiplication. The students learned that they can used their knowledge of skip-counting to help them (multiplication as repeated addition) but also learned about how arrays (objects arranged in equal horizontal and vertical rows) can help them too (multiplicative thinking). The students created their own multiplication charts (to 10x10). They also looked at the 100 multiplication facts and after eliminating the "easy" ones (like x1 and x10) and repeated facts (that is, the answer, or product of 3x5 is the same as 5x3), they realized that there are only 21 out of 100 "tricky" facts to learn. The students also finished their 3D geometry sculptures and took them home on Friday. A popular sculpture to make was the circle of tetrahedrons that revolves around itself called a "torus ring". A video of how this works can be found at the beginning of this posting.
The students have been learning about Japanese poems called "haiku". They practiced writing Haiku poems and wrote one based on the Chinese brush paintings they created last week. Each child made a poster with his/her painting and a copy of the poem. These are now on display in the hall outside our classroom.
The students learned a bit about speeches to help get ready for our school's speech contest on February 24th. The class will start writing their speeches next week.
All week during guided reading time, I met with every student to discuss their writing and to establish writing goals for this term to help make them better writers.
In computers, the students used what they learned in science to build stable bridges. Here is the link:
The class also found time to watch a DVD on Planets to help answer all their questions about our universe.
Books read aloud this week:
Hey Little Ant by Phillip and Hannah Hoose
Guyku - Haiku for boys by Bob Raczka
No One Saw - Ordinary things through the eyes of an artist by Bob Raczka
Groundhog Day by Michelle Aki Becker
Canadian Kids Speak From the Heart by Heather Dawn (editor)
The Room 5 Interview Show!
This week Hari and Basma interviewed Sharon Mitchell.
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