This week was Earth Week. Our school had an assembly, a bake sale fundraiser, a daily question contest and decorated the classroom doors with art made with recycled materials.
On Monday, our class pretended it was April 22, 1813! We tried our best to live like pioneers for the whole day. With the lights off, the students prepared their lunch (baked beans and corn stew, cornmeal "Johnnycakes", homemade butter and bread, carrot sticks, cheese, pickles). They tried writing cursive with quill pens and ink and learned about the pangram sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." (A pangram is a sentence that has all 26 letters of the alphabet.) The students also participated in an old-fashioned Spelling Bee.
In math, the students worked on the measurement unit. We talked about measuring with centimetres, metres and kilometres. The students were also introduced to the concepts of perimeter and area.
The children worked on their opinion essays comparing The Iron Man (book) and The Iron Giant (movie). They also learned how to create figures out of aluminum foil. The good copies of the essays will be displayed on the bulletin board in the hall outside of our classroom.
The students learned some more strategies for writing the EQAO test by reading, discussing and answering questions after reading a poem.
The class used empty tissue boxes to create art pieces for the Earth Week door decorating challlenge.
In science, the class began the unit on plants and soils. They set up experiements to observe how bean seeds sprout. Each child has a science notebook to record the daily changes in the seeds. The children also chose the plant that they wished to learn more about for the last research poster project of the year.
During our computer time, the students explored plant games and activities. Here is the link:
http://primarygames.com/science/flowers/games.htm
Books read aloud this week:
Black Beauty (chapter book) by Anna Sewell
A Shiver of Sharks - A Compilation of Aquatic Collective Nouns by Patrick George
A Filth of Starlings - A Compilation of Bird Collective Nouns by Patrick George
For Good Measure - The ways we say how much, how far, how heavy, how big and how old by
Ken Robbins
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