News for June 22

News for June 22

News for June 22

This week the students in Room 5 worked very hard to get ready for our 100+ Books Party on Friday. It was a great success, almost every student in our school from grades 1 to 6 came through our classroom and saw the work of each student, our video and some snacks!

In math, we used the 100 books to apply some of the math concepts we learned this year. We measured how long the books were laid down end-to-end (24 m 60 cm), how tall when piled up (76 cm) and how heavy (28 kg). The students used their survey skills to figure out how many books were fiction (50), non-fiction (32) and near-fiction (18). 41 of the authors were female and 51 were male. 52 books were written before 2002 and 48 were written after 2002. Finally, they calculated how many pages were in the 100 books altogether...there were 4,166 pages. Please see the video at the end of this posting to see the students presenting this information.

The class worked very hard to complete the sock creatures. Every student made an original sock creature by using the sewing machine and hand sewing the pieces together. Then each child wrote a short biography of his/her sock creature as a character and put this information into a little book.

The students also calculated how many days of school each grade 3 child has had (935 days of school) and grade 4 child has had (1,122 days of school). The class also calculated how many days of summer vacation we will have this year (70 days).

To get ready for our 100+ books celebration, the students also organized the books, in order, did the math activities as described at the beginning of this posting, brought snacks and set up his/her work on each desk (book report, comic strip, sock creature and biography). They also made over 150 bookmarks to give to our guests as a thank you gift for coming to our party.

The class saw a presentation about bike safety this week presented by Metro Toronto Police.

The grade 3 students made a display of the pioneer village that they researched and created. This was in the hallway outside our classroom during our party.

As a link to our visit last week to the Cadbury chocolate factory, the class began watching the movie, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" based on the book by Road Dahl.

Finally, the students reviewed the work they did over the year that was collected in their portfolios. It was wonderful to see how much their writing has improved! These portfolios were sent home with the children on Friday.

Here is the video the students made to celebrate reading 100 books together...