News for April 19

This week the students worked in their groups to finish and present their pioneer projects. The children created buildings for our pioneer village that included: a pioneer home, a general store, a grist mill, a blacksmith shop and a schoolhouse. The groups presented their information in front of the class. A video of these presentations can be found at the end of this posting.

In math, the class finished up the unit on probability by learning about the fairness of using spinners and dice in games. They even created their own dice! (Did you know that the sum of the numbers on the opposite sides of a die always add up to 7?) After reviewing the concepts, the students wrote the unit test on Friday.

The children finished watching the DVD, The Iron Giant and completed their notes on comparing the details in the book The Iron Man and the movie. They then used this information to begin a comparison of the book and the movie. The class learned the basic format of the three part essay (introduction, body and conclusion) and began to write their opinion essays by writing, editing and revising the introductory paragraph to their essays.

In preparation for the Earth Week assembly next week, the students worked very hard to complete a paper chain to bring to the assembly. Using scrap paper, the students cut paper strips and wrote earth-friendly messages on the strips. For example, some statements were "Be kind to the earth!" and "Turn off the lights in a room when you leave." The table groups worked to see who could create the longest chain and in the end, we connected the chains together and the final chain was 17 metres and 14 centimetres long! That's taller than the school!

Books read aloud this week:

Black Beauty (chapter book) by Anna Sewell. (This classic book was written in 1877.)


The Room 5 Pioneer Village Projects

Student groups presented their building models and the results of their research.



The Room 5 Interview Show!

This week Emma and Meredith interviewed Norah, the office administrator at our school. Please note that is the last interview show for the school year. Thanks for watching!