News for April 4

News for April 4

The class started the week with a big success! Our class presentation of the play, "Honesty is the Best Policy" in the gym at the morning assembly on Monday went very well. The audience laughed and participated and each student did her/his job perfectly. A video of this play can be found in a previous posting dated Monday, March 31.

The students began their Social Studies research projects on communities around the world by choosing a country to research and making a flag of the country to put on the posters. In our guided reading time, the students read about different homes around the world, different ways to move around (transportation), different types of clothes and different jobs that people do.

This week, the class learned the cursive letters j, p, r and t. The class also had a chance to review and practise the letters done so far (12 letters in all with 14 to go).

In math, the students continued to work on the fractions unit. They each folded a large piece of paper into eighths, and created a little book. Then each student used little squares of paper to experiment with folding and cutting halves, thirds and quarters. These little books are now on display in the hall outside of our classroom. At the end of the week, the children began to look at fractions of a set of objects by dividing the number of objects into equal groups. For example, 12 cubes divided into 4 groups of three cubes means that the set is divided into fourths with 3 cubes in each group.

The students brainstormed all the different parts of a movie (for example, title credits at the beginning). The children are working in small groups to create movies starring the sock creatures that they made last week. They worked very hard to create a story, credits and props. We will start to film the movies next week.

During our library time, the students had a chance to watch the movie version of a book we read last Friday called, The Fabulous Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. It won an academy award for best animated short film! Here is the link:



During our computer time, the students explored the Treehouse TV website at:

www.treehousetv.com


Books read aloud this week:

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lundgren (chapter book)