News for April 21
During this four-day week, it was all about preparing for our 100 Books Party! See more photos and a video in a separate posting.
In math, the students applied their math knowledge to solve several math challenges involving the 100 books. They weighed the books (33 kilograms), measured how tall they were all piled up (81 centimetres) and how long they were when arranged in a line down our hallway (27 metres and 42 centimetres). Did you know that's longer that the height of our school? The students also collected data and graphed the results on the number of fiction/non-fiction/near-fiction books, the number of male/female authors, the number of hardcover/softcover books and finally the total number of pages in all 100 books (4,266 pages). Did you know that if you read one page a day, it would take you almost 12 years to read that many pages?
The children worked as a class to collect a lot of this information, then they worked in smaller groups to create short presentations to communicate the various results. Videos of these presentations are in the party video and can be seen in a separate posting.
The students worked hard to prepare for the party. They had to finish many writing projects. Then the children created displays on their desks including book reports, Lego City stories, colour story books, world famous structure research books and handwoven bookmarks! They made bookmarks to give to our guests as thank you gifts. They rolled up the carpet, moved it out of the classroom and then brought it back in after the party. They cleaned up, put things away and even had a turn at sweeping the floor! It's a lot of work to prepare for a party, but it was worth it. Well done, everyone!
The class went outside to create two mosaics with recycled items with Madame Cenac and her grade 5 class. We also went to an Earth Week assembly on Tuesday morning and to the Used Book fair on Thursday. These activities were all a part of our school's Earth Week celebrations.
The Room 204 Interview Show returns next week!
Books read aloud this week:
A Lion in Paris by Beatrice Alemagna
The Soda Bottle School - A True Story of Recycling, Teamwork and One Crazy Idea by Laura Kutner and Suzanne Slade
Tiger, Tiger is it True? - Four Questions to Make You Smile Again by Byron Katie
13 Buildings Children Should Know by Annette Roeder
Little House on the Prairie - Town Party, Country Party (DVD)
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