News for February 21

News for February 21

This four-day week saw the students doing everything from learning to knit to making cash registers to writing a story while pretending to be a penguin!

The students heard the story Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers once again. Then we talked about what the silent penguin might have been thinking in the story. The students then learned how to fold an origami penguin to help them pretend to be a penguin so they could each write a story from the viewpoint of the penguin.

The children took the vocabulary words they chose previously and worked in their table groups to create posters to display these words and their definitions. 

The students learned how to write a basic book report. After hearing the story What? Cried Granny by Kate Lum, each student wrote about their favourite parts in the book, how the pictures helped to tell the story and how the author could have improved the story.

This week, Vishnu and Ivy interviewed Ms. Konjhodzic. She is our music teacher. The video can be found in a separate posting.

In math, the class continued to talk about money. The focus is now on adding money amounts and solving math word problems. We are creating a "Room 5 Store"! The students brainstormed what we would need to create a store and on Friday, the children began to work with a partner to make their own cash registers.

In guided reading, the children read about the important of country flags in our world and how they are designed to reflect something about the countries they represent.

The children learning about knitting and how knitted fabric is made. To help them learn how to knit, the students each made a knitting "corker" and began to knit using the wool they dyed with Kool-aid last month.

Books read aloud this week:

My Father's Dragon (chapter book - finished) by Ruth Stiles Gannett

The Flag Book by Letta Potter

What? Cried Granny by Kate Lum

The First Drawing by Mordecai Gerstein