Another busy, but short, week again!
In math, the class continued to practice the strategies to help them count money. We learned a bit about the history of money in Canada. Did you know that a few hundred years ago people used playing cards as money? They also practiced how to show a particular value of money in different ways. For example, 36 cents or $0.36 can be shown as one quarter, one dime and one penny OR three dimes and six pennies (plus many other combinations).
The students learned the history of the Canadian flag and Flag Day, observed on February 15th each year. Did you know that the Canadian flag is 51 years old? The children also created their own Canadian flags. The official flag is twice as long as it is tall and the white centre is a square and the two red rectangles on each side are each one half of a square. Each child wrote a non- fiction story about Flag Day and most children chose to write their good copies in cursive. The writing and flags are now on display in the hall outside of our classroom.
The students are working hard to complete their sock monkeys. There are a lot of steps to make these stuffed animals and the children are getting very good at sewing! These monkeys will be the focus of several projects including non-fiction procedural writing, fiction writing and...movies!
The students each practised their cursive signatures and created a new cursive desk name card. They also continued to practise their lowercase letters to improve their speed at creating cursive writing.
In our guided reading groups this week, we continued to focus on the interpretation of poems. Because poems have many fewer words than other kinds of writing, the reader has to "read between the lines" to help them understand a poem.
The students learned about the main parts of speech in English. We focused on nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs. The class learned how to play the game Mad Libs, which creates funny stories and helps children apply what they know about parts of speech.
After reading and learning about Chinese characters the students had a chance to try fortune cookies. But did you know that fortune cookies aren't Chinese at all? They are an American invention (based on a Japanese idea). Every year 3 billion fortune cookies are eaten!
On The Room 204 Interview show this week, our guest was Ms. Tiralongo. She is a teacher at our school. You can see the video in a separate posting.
Books read aloud this week:
Our Flag: The story of Canada's Maple Leaf by Ann-Marie Owens and Jane Yealland
Canadian Money by Elizabeth MacLeod
Only in Dreams by Paul Frank
The Glass Doorknob: a Sock Monkey Adventure by Tony Millionaire
The Pet Dragon: A Story About Adventure, Friendship and Chinese Characters by Christoph Niemann
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