This week the students continued to work on their science research posters. Each child has chosen an animal and is now creating a poster to communicate the results of their research. Using information from encyclopedias and library books, the children are learning some very cool facts and writing them down on their research sheets. (Did you know that a whale shark can grow to be 12 metres tall? That's two metres taller than our school!) The children also practiced a drawing technique where the artist breaks down the image into shapes to help draw the picture. Then they used this technique to draw pictures of their research animals and glued them on their posters.
The class continued the unit on poetry by writing poems using information they got from their five senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste). It was fun to write poems about lemons by actually seeing, listening to, feeling, smelling and tasting lemons! The students also began to learn about rhyming words and began to write some rhyming poems.
In math, the children began the unit on graphs and how humans use these information pictures to get information. The class learned the vocabulary words survey, survey question, tally marks, data, graph, key, pictograph and bar graph. The children reviewed how to use and count tally marks. They learned how to read information from pictographs and bar graphs. They also learned how to figure out how many people answered a survey question and how to compare one answer to another. (For example, "There are 16 more people that have a zippered lunch bag than have a velcro lunch bag.") The students also answer a daily survey question and analyze the resultant bar graph. (Did you know that the favourite snack in our class is potato chips?)
The students ended our social studies unit by reviewing all the work they did and each child wrote a reflection on what they liked to do the best and why.
The class did a couple of new working with words activities this week. They played around with the beginning sounds of the homophones write/right. The students managed to find 22 rhyming words! The children also played the word game "How to turn a hen into a fox" by replacing letters in the words. This helped the children review the vowels and consonants in the alphabet and helped them play with letter sounds.
The class watched a video of the lion from one of our read aloud books. The book Christian the Lion tells the story of a real lion that lived in London, England and was successfully re-introduced into a wildlife park in Kenya. Here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5vRPKIS5UM
We also learned about the friendship between a tortoise and a hippo when we read the book, Owen and Mzee: The story of a remarkable friendship. Here is the link to their website:
owenandmzee.com
The children worked in groups to read the scripts for a Reader's Theatre play based on the nursery rhyme "Old Mother Hubbard". The students worked hard to make sure that they faced the audience and read their lines clearly and loudly.
Our class project to create a large 100 chart in the stairwell is now over halfway finished. On Friday, the number "56" was added to the chart.
Books read aloud this week:
Christian the Lion (part 2) by Anthony "Ace" Bourke and John Randall
Owen and Mzee by Craig Hatkoff
The Velveteen Rabbit (chapter book) by Margery WIlliams
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