This week the students were lucky to participate in two special events: The Director's Cut workshop on Thursday and The Kiwanis Festival on Friday. You can read more about these events in separate posts.
The students are learning not only how to write poems, but also how to read and interpret them. It's not so easy understanding poems since poems usually have fewer words and break the rules of standard writing. After reading the book, My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes, the class started to write additional verses to the poem by writing in rhyme. It's not as easy to write lines that rhyme, but the students did a great job and these new verses are not part of a class book.
In math, the children continued to review and practice making change. They worked in partners to create homemade cash registers and pretended to buy things and make change. They also reviewed how to correctly and completely answer word problems, with a focus on underlining or circling important information in the question in order to provide complete and correct answers.
On Wednesday, Ms. Reinelt came to our class to speak to the students about strategies on how to play at recess time to make sure everyone has fun and is treated fairly.
In preparation for the Director's Cut workshop on Thursday, the children worked very hard to finish his/her sock creature. From sewing on tails, arms, mouths and eyes the students did it all. Each creature now has its own tissue box (house? airplane? car?). The students use their homemade sock creatures and Lego mini-figures in their movies. The movies can be seen in a separate posting. Of course, Ms. R has asked them to start writing a fiction story starring their sock creatures!
In art, the students created a collage gluing coloured tissue paper on cardboard to make a layered background for an art piece that will focus on the concept of foreground, mid-ground and background of an art piece. They will continue working on this art next week.
Books read aloud this week:
My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes by Eve Sutton
Growing Patterns - Fibonacci Numbers in Nature by Sarah Campbell
The Man With the Violin by Kathy Stinson
Geronimo Stilton's Little Book of Happiness by Elizabetta Dami (continued Guided Reading project)
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