The big news for this four day week was that our "recycled egg", made out of cut up egg cartons, won the prize for the best recycled project for the primary division! The students each got a sucker from the Eco Club, as a thank you for their work.
The students have now finished learning all 26 letters of the lowercase cursive alphabet! They practiced the "tricky" cursive letters b, o, w and v because they have bridge or smile connectors as they join to following letters. The children practiced writing their signatures and used the signatures to create a new piece of art by drawing the reflection of the name and colouring in the spaces.
The children finished their letters to Pet Valu and as a group, we wrote a cover letter to explain the activity to the company. Finally, the letters were mailed to Pet Valu and hopefully they will write us back!
In guided reading, the students had a chance to learn about how 3D glasses and pictures work. Then they read 3D books and looked at what the photos look like without glasses and when the glasses are worn upside down!
In math, the class finished the unit on multiplication and division. Division was shown as creating equal groups (the same idea from when we talked about fractions) and how it is related to multiplication. The new unit is on Probability and the students were introduced to the words used to describe the probability of something happening. These words are: certain, likely, equally likely, unlikely, impossible. The class also looked at spinners and decided if they were "fair" spinners or not.
The students listened to a song by Johnny Cash called, "Everywhere Man" where he sings about all the places that he has traveled to as a musician. We changed part of the song to include the names of the countries that the students are researching, and practiced singing that version of the song.
The children finished the good copies of their stories and based on the discarded book jackets from the school library. These stories and the collage artwork is now on display inside our classroom.
The class talked about the different ways to tell a story and the students had a chance to see the DVD A Grand Day Out. This is a funny, animated clay movie. The students wrote down the parts of the story, characters, settings, problems and solutions.
As a creativity development activity, the students came up with different uses for a rolling pin. It could be a wheel, a baseball bat or more.
Books read aloud this week:
The Amazing Dreams of Amanda Bean by Liza Woodruff (finished)
What's For Lunch? What schoolchildren eat around the world by Andrea Curtis
That's a Probability! A book about what might happen by Bruce Goldstone
A Grand Day Out (DVD) by Nick Park
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