The four-day week didn't stop the students from doing a wide range of activities from finishing our math unit to decorating eggs to reading aloud books by Oliver Jeffers for our author study.
In writing, the students reviewed their typed sock monkey stories, wrote their author biographies and created front and back covers for their final books.
The class started to plan our celebration of reading and writing, the 11th annual 100 Books Party! This is the day we celebrate reading and discussing 100 read aloud books. The students began by choosing his/her favourite read aloud book and writing the rough copy of a book report based on the chosen book.
The students finished learning the 26 American Sign Language (ASL) signs for the letters of the English alphabet. We are now practising signing/spelling words and will now incorporate this skill when we practise spelling our word wall word each week.
In math, the students wrote about the graphs of their surveys from last week. As a group, we talked about what we now know about the students in Room 204. For example, most children like cake and icing. The students learned about circle or pie graphs and reviewed how to create and interpret pictographs and bar graphs.
Our class has begun to partipate in a research project to improve the speed and accuracy of answering two- and three-digit addition and subtraction questions. This week, the students did timed activites solving addition and subtraction questions as a pre-test. Next week they will learn new strategies to help them increase their speed and accuracy.
In science, the class talked more about air in our environment. Did you know that the three main gases in air are oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide? In groups, the class did a simple experiment to prove that air is around us. (It's important to prove this because even though air is all around us, we can't "see" it.)
The class talked about the Christian holiday of Easter. Did you know that the word holiday comes from the words "holy" and "day"? We talked about the religious story of Easter and the non-religious celebrations associated with this time of year. For example, serving chocolate eggs and decorating eggs are part of many family traditions. The children learned how to hard-boil eggs, dye them and use boiling water to "shrink" decorated plastic around the outside of the eggs. They also learned how to pack the delicate eggs in bubble wrap to protect the fragile eggs when they took them home.
This week, on the Room 204 Interview Show, our guest was Ms. Francesca. She is a gym teacher at our school. This video can be seen in a separate posting.
Books read aloud this week:
The Easter Egg by Jan Brett
Stuck By Oliver Jeffers
This Moose Belongs to Me by Oliver Jeffers
The Heart and the Bottle by Oliver Jeffers
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