This week was very busy in Room 5! We even had time to plant an amarylis bulb, to watch how it grows.
In math, we continued the geometry unit by looking at attributes of two-dimensional shapes. The students learned about the three types of angles. A right angles is "where horizontal line meets a vertical line" (as found in squares and rectangles). An acute angle is smaller than a right angle and an obtuse angle is larger than a right angle. Regular shapes have all the sides of the same length. Congruent figures are the same size and the same shape. The students learned about ancient Chinese puzzles called tangrams. In each tangram set there are 7 shapes and each shape is called a tan. The children practiced solving tangram puzzles, designed their own tangrams and even had a tangram-solving competition! (The top four students were: Angela, Nandana, Etienne and Marina.)
In guided reading, the groups continued to learn about urban and rural communities. This week they read and talked about housing and getting around these two different kind of communities. The class also learned the direction words north, south, east and west.
In computers, the students explored geometry games at: http://www.kidsmathgamesonline.com/ .
Our sock puppet joke videos, a literacy/oral communication project, was finished this week. Here is the video:
The children worked hard to finish their research projects on animal and man-made structures. They wrote all the facts as sentences and wrote them on the posters. The posters they created are now on display in the west stairwell outside of our classroom. Next week, the students will present what they learned to the class.
The students had a chance to have a private ride on a TTC bus! Fritz the bus driver answered all the students' questions and told the class what it's like to be a bus driver. He also brought a lot of TTC magnets, pins and paper models for all the students. It was a lot of fun! Thanks to school parent Wendy Chong-Engell for organizing this trip for us.
The grades 3 to 8 classes also attended an assembly on internet safety this week.
As part of our Remembrance Day discussions, the students reviewed how to make paper cranes and how to make perfect squares from standard rectangle paper. The class performed the song they learned, by singing and by signing in ASL, at the Remembrance Day assembly on Friday. Our principal, Mrs. Farrelly, came by our class to tell the children what a wonderful job they did.
Books read aloud this week:
Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown (finished)
Three Pigs, One Wolf and Seven Magic Shapes by Grace Maccarone
Sadako (and the thousand paper cranes) by Eleanor Coerr
Learning American Sign Language with Room 5 - Episode 9
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