News for June 20

News for June 20

The big news from this week was the visit of Jerome, Jan and Maurice from TVOntario. They were in our class on Monday and Friday to film the students doing the amazing work that they do in Room 5! This video will become part of a TVO show called Teaching Matters, that will air sometime at the end of September. I will post the dates and times on this blog in September so that the children can watch the show.

The children opened up their time capsules this week. Recall that last September, each student made a little book and recorded their height and weight, their wishes and predictions for the school year. The time capsules were packed away for 10 months! It was great fun seeing how much the children grew (an average of 4 cm) and if any of their wishes or predictions came true.

In the final episode of The Room 5 Interview Show for this school year, the children interviewed Jerome Skeete. He is a TV producer at TVOntario. This video can be found in a separate posting.

After reading the storybook, The Honeybee Man, the children had a chance to try eating natural honeycomb just like in the book. The "little wax rooms" are actually in the shape of hexagonal prisms. Honeybees can do geometry too!

The students finished creating their "Woolly Hoodwinks" characters this week, by adding ears and legs and sewing on eyes. The biggest challenge was embroidering the mouth on the front. They are now all finished, with names and character profiles and ready for their adventures next week...

The students walked over to Hodgson Senior School on Tuesday and spent the morning not only rehearsing their three songs but they also got a chance to see the performances of the other eight classes in the concert. The primary classes put on a great show!

The class went to the gym on Wednesday to see the grade six students perform The Wizard of Oz in French. There were lots of songs and the children even got to dance along with the performers.

The class continued our "June Review" of our WWW or Word Wall Words. We focused on the tricky homophones there/their/they're and your/you're and played the "I'm thinking of a Word Wall Word" game.

On Thursday, the children joined all the other students from grades one to six in our school's playground for the annual Play Day. From three-legged races to trying to fill a bucket with water using a container with holes in it, everyone had a great time!

At the end of the day on Friday, we went to the freezer and got out our snowballs that the students made in February. Wow! They were so cold! The class correctly predicted that the snowballs would melt from solid to liquid and the water would evaporate into the air. It's hard to believe now, when it's so warm outside, that it was that cold back in February and the whole playground was covered in snow!

Books read aloud this week:

The Honeybee Man by Vela Nargi
The Magic Schoolbus at the Waterworks by Joanna Cole
Peggy - A Brave Chicken on a Big Adventure by Anna Walker
Let's Do Nothing by Tony Facile