On Monday, our class had the first visit to Mr. Grundy's JK/SK class. These children are our "special friends" for the school year. We will get together every two weeks. This week, the children presented the play they created for the kindergarten audience based on the book Pete the Cat - I Love My White Shoes. The kindergarten children loved it! After, the special friends got together to talk about the story and draw pictures.
This week the students began to work on planning our school-wide contest, "What is the perimeter of our school?" To help us get started, the class actually walked all around the school and wrote down their estimates. Next week, the students will take turns talking about the contest on the morning announcements.
Of course, our contest is an extension of our current math unit on measurement. The class learned how to calculate the perimeter or distance around a shape or object in centimetres and metres.
The children tried a different dyeing technique to create a design on the second piece of fabric for our pillow project. The class learned a type of Japanese tie dye called "shibori", where the fabric is folded into geometric shapes, secured with wood pieces and elastics and then the edges are dipped into dye. The result is a very cool geometric pattern.
In cursive writing instruction this week, the students learned the letters, q, i, u and y.
The students finished making their cardboard structures for the Cardboard Challenge 2014. At this point in our science unit the children were discovering different techniques on how to make their structures strong and stable.
In writing, the students continued to write fiction stories, using the cardboard structures that they made as the setting for his/her story.
On Friday, while the children were shaking the cream into butter, cutting up vegetables for the soup and waiting for the bread to rise and bake, they wrote letters to their families. In the letters, the students wrote about what they were thankful for, in the spirit of our Thanksgiving celebration.
Books read aloud this week:
Thanksgiving in Canada (DVD)
Martha Calling by Susan Meddaugh
Martha Blah Blah by Susan Meddaugh
Martha Walks the Dog by Susan Meddaugh
Martha and Skits by Susan Meddaugh
Stone Soup by Jon Muth
Finally, we had a special visitor this week to our classroom. Eric Wood from The Town Crier newspaper came to talk to the children and learn more about the amazing work that the students do.
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