This week the students worked hard to get ready for our class celebration, the 100 Books Party, finished sewing their sock creatures and practised our play about honesty (to be performed next Monday).
The students worked in small groups to create posters to communicate the math ideas we learned last week about the 100 books we've read aloud so far this year. The students commented on the length of the books end-to-end, the height of the books piled on top of one another, the weight of the books, how many books were fiction and non-fiction, how many were soft cover and hard cover, how many books where written by male authors and female authors and finally how many pages we read altogether. This information is now in a video and can be seen in a separate posting.
The class set up displays of their work on their desks. Each desk had a copy of his/her favourite read aloud book, a book report on that book, the fairy tale book that he/she wrote, the sock creature he/she made with a book about the creature around its neck. They also made over 200 bookmarks (to give to guests as a thank you for coming to our party), made a delicious batch of chocolate fudge and rolled up the classroom carpet (so as not to get it too dirty with spilled snacks.)
The children finished sewing their sock creatures using the bodies they sewed on the sewing machine last week and using needles and thread to sew on arms, tails, mouths and eyes. Then they worked on writing "character profiles" about their sock creatures (name, where they live, what they like to do...). Finally the students wrote little books with this information in it to hang around the necks of their finished sock creatures.
In cursive writing, the students learned the letters, i, u, w and y. That makes 9 letters learned and only 17 more to go...
The class began the unit on fractions by learning the different ways to divide shapes into halves, thirds and quarters. They learned that fractions are equal parts and can be thought of making a "fair share".
Our class is responsible for the school assembly about honesty next Monday morning. The children read through the script on Monday and chose their roles. We figured out costumes and staging, made signs and props and rehearsed and rehearsed and rehearsed...
In social studies we continued the unit on communities by watching a DVD called What's a Community? The class learned that all communities are the same because people need to have jobs, places to live and food to eat. However, how the people do these things is different from community to community.
Finally, our class welcomed two new pets to our class. They are two African Clawed Frogs and their names are Mr. and Mrs. Pickles. They live in our classroom fish tank with our water snails, George 1 and George 2. Thank you so much to Wendi Gardner for these frogs. (Wendi is a sign language interpreter at our school.)
Books read aloud this week:
Sock Monkey and the Glass Doorknob by Tony Millionaire
Everything's Coming Up Sock Monkeys by Bonnie Connelly
! (Exclamation Mark) by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and tom Lichtenfeld
The Bookshop Dog by Cynthia Rylant
The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore by William Joyce.
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