There were a lot of special activities this week! On Monday, the whole school braved the cold to participate in a school-wide Track and Field meet. In the afternoon, our class learned we had won "cookie medals" for collecting the most pennies in last week's Penny Challenge fundraiser. On Tuesday afternoon, our class met with a visiting artist. The children looked at the work of French artist Fernand Leger and used his work as inspiration to create colourful paper sculptures. On Friday morning, the class presented the school assembly on cooperation (more information at the end of this posting). On Friday afternoon, the children participated in Jump Rope for Heart, by skipping with all the students outside on the playground.
We welcomed our new student teacher, Ms. Stark to our class this week. Ms. Stark is a student at Queen's University.
In math, the students wrote the final unit test on fractions. The children are now learning about the measurement concepts of perimeter (measured in linear units) and area (measured in square units).
The class began the new social studies unit on Pioneers. The children did partner reading (where one child reads part of the passage and the partner summarizes what was read) of a non-fiction story called "A Pioneer Child's Day".
Ms. Stark led the class in our science summative activity on sound. She presented the concept of making sounds without instruments. Using plastic bins, staplers and paper bags the students experimented with all the different ways to make sounds. Finally they had a chance to perform together. The students also watched professional artists perform "Stomp" where they danced and made music using garbage cans and lids.
http://www.stomponline.com/index-us.php
Books read aloud this week:
Banjo of Destiny (chapter book) by Cary Fagan
More Than Anything Else (a story of young Booker T. Washington) by Marie Bradby
Our class was responsible for the school-wide recognition assembly that was held in the gym this Friday. The students worked very hard on putting together a play about cooperation based on a story called "The Two Greedy Children". A video of the play can be found at the end of this posting.
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