This four-day week was full of different celebrations in Room 5. Birthdays, Pancake Day, Chinese New Year, Valentine's Day, Black History Month and Flag Day were all celebrated this week.
We began the week by welcoming Diana Braithwaite and Chris Whiteley to our school to teach us about the history of the Underground Railroad through words and songs. The Underground Railroad was actually a network of people in the US and Canada that secretly helped slaves from the southern US escape to Canada. Here is one of their songs:
The students each planned and painted a large detailed artwork, that they will use to inspire his/her next fiction story. The children have begun to start using the details in this painting to plan and write their next writing project, planning and creating chapter books.
The class learned more about Chinese New Year celebrations by learning about the Lantern Festival. The students drank "tea" out of little teacups, tried "lucky" candies and fortune cookies.
The children discussed the Christian holiday of Shrove Tuesday, (also known as Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday and Pancake Tuesday). They worked together to make the pancake batter, flip the pancakes and, of course, eat the pancakes!
For Valentine's Day, the students created a Valentine heart flower card with a loving message for someone special. They also decorated paper bags for students to "mail" each other Valentine cards. Finally, the class learned how to fold paper origami hearts.
The class began learning cursive letters this week. The children will learn the lower case cursive letters. So far, the children have practiced the letters c and a.
In math, the students continued to practice counting money, making change and solving word problems with money amounts. Later in the week, they began to learn about capacity (how much something can hold) and the units, litre (L) and millilitre (mL).
Students reviewed how to properly answer written questions with sentences. They then used this knowledge to read and respond to a practice EQAO reading response activity.
In guided reading, the students learned about the daily activities of pioneer children.
The class got to visit with their kindergarten reading buddies this week and work with them to make a Valentine's Day craft.
Books read aloud this week:
The Heart and the Bottle by Oliver Jeffers
Valentine's Day by Elizabeth Guilfoile
The Lantern Festival by Sanmu Tang
The Room 5 Interview Show!
This week, Abby and David interviewed our school's librarian, Ms. Miller.
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