This week the students finally finished the project on the Davisville School bell. Each child created a small poster with facts about the bell and put them on the wall beside the bell in the office. Did you know that the bell was made in Troy, New York in 1860, seven years before Canada became a country? The class also made a short video about the bell.
In math, the children continued to explore 3D or three-dimensional shapes in many different ways. The class learned that each figure has edges, faces and vertices. The students examined 3D solids, cut and taped paper figures, used toothpicks and plasticine to create "skeletons". They learned how to visualize the 3D figure from a 2D "net" pattern. They even created a huge icosahedron (20 equilateral triangle faces).
The class reviewed how to write letters and address envelopes to write letters for our school's "Holiday Mailbox". Our school has a long-standing tradition of writing letters to students and staff at this time of year.
The class continued to learn the words, vocabulary and history of many traditional holiday songs from this time of year. Did you know that the song "Let it Snow" was actually written during a heat wave in July 1945 by US songwriters trying to feel cooler during a heat wave.
The students finished the good copies of their fictional stories about our school's bell. These are now a part of a class book, for everyone can read the stories of their classmates.
The class watched the DVD of the children's holiday classic movie, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. They learned how to take notes while watching the movie, then used their notes to answer questions about the story elements (characters, setting, problem/solution).
Books read aloud this week:
Snow Cat by Dayal Kaur Khalsa
You Are Stardust by Elin Kelsey
Underwater Dogs by Eric Castell
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