This week was Earth Week at Davisville P.S.! The students made hats out of newspaper, created a display called "The Story of Wool" for the school's Eco-Fair in the library, turned off all the lights for an hour and attended the Earth Day assembly on Wednesday.
In math, the class continued to talk about probability. We set up a tracking chart and, using tally marks, tracked the number of times the students (and teacher) said the words, certain, likely, equally likely, unlikely, impossible, fair and unfair. The students talked about fair and unfair spinners and how using a die and flipping a coin has outcomes that are equally likely. The students did a "peek box" experiment and using the result tried to reason and predict the number and colour of the cubes in the box. At the end of the week, the students played a game to determine the probability of rolling the numbers 2-12 with two dice. Did you know that when you roll two dice it's more likely to roll a 6, 7, or 8? That's because there are for example, three different ways to roll a 6 (3+3, 2+4, 1+5).
In writing, the students continued to work on their "box" stories. They also did an EQAO reading comprehension activity to help the students improve how to read and answer questions more carefully and accurately.
In science, the students started the unit on plants by talking about the starting point in the life of a plant, the seed. The children set up an experiment to sprout these seeds in a clear plastic bag in order to see what actually happens when water is added to dry seeds.
Our Eco- Fair project was to tell "The Story of Wool". As a class we discussed the steps from sheep to finished product and the students each wrote about the steps and we assembled a display with weaving and corking.
This week on The Room 5 Interview Show, Scarlett and Lucas interviewed Ms. Standing. She is the Early Childhood Educator (ECE) in our Learning Buddies kindergarten classroom. This video can be seen in a separate posting.
The students learned how to make printing plates by recycling foam produce trays. After creating two separate designs, one for the centre and one for the border, they brushed the plates with paint and printed them on thick paper. After, the children each wrote an art reflection to express their thoughts about their art and the artistic process.
Books read aloud this week:
The Soda Bottle School: The True Story of Recycling Teamwork by Laura Kutner
Outstanding in the Rain: A Whole Story with Holes by Frank Viva
A Book With No Pictures by B. J. Novak
The Book With a Hole by Herve Tullet
Here is a video of the school and how they made it out of soda pop bottles:
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