Well, despite school bus cancellations this week, the class managed to learn more about surveys and how to read and create bar graphs, how to write a book report and how to interview a person to learn more about them!
In math, the class continued to learn how to use survey questions to learn more about our class. Did you know that most students have birthdays in December? Recall that the data management unit helps students research to learn more about groups of people, that cannot be found in books or on the internet. This week the class focused on how to read and how to create pictographs and bar graphs.
In writing, the students continue to work on their glovetopus chapter books. We reviewed the information found on the front and back covers of a book and the children made the front and back covers for their books. Each student also had an "author photo" taken with his/her glovetopus to include in the book.
The class finally heard the sixth Martha the talking dog read aloud book. The class learned about book reports and how to write in detail about a book that they have read. First, each child had to choose his/her favourite Martha book. Then using a worksheet, they answered questions about their book choice and gave their opinions about the book.
Our word wall word study this week had a look at the rule to add "s" to words that end in "y". First we reviewed which letters are vowels (a, e, i, o, u) and which are consonants. The children will tell you that English spellings are "crazy" at the best of times, but this is a fairly rigorous rule. If there is a vowel before the "y", then you just add an "s", (for example, one boy or two boys). However, if there is a consonant before the "y", you remove the "y" and add "ies", (for example, one puppy or two puppies).
In media studies and oral communication, we began our next big class project...The Room 222 Interview Show! We talked about how to learn more about a person. Of course, a famous person may have a book written about them or have information on the internet. We really can't do a survey of just one person, so they were introduced to the idea of an interview. The children wrote down questions that they would like to ask an adult at our school and then suggested people that they would like to interview. The children made posters to show a title of the show, the name of the guest and who the student interviewers are. The class even learned a theme song to sing at the beginning of each show. This week two students interviewed Mrs. Farrelly, the principal of our school. These interviews will be done once a week for the next nine weeks. The videos can be seen every week in a separate posting on this blog.
In art, the children worked on their Andy Warhol inspired art, by finishing their interpretation of the Campbell's soup label then created a drawing of their own can of soup.
In cursive writing, the class learned how to write the letters c, q, i and u.
On Friday, the children had a chance to watch a TV version of Martha the talking dog called "Martha Speaks"! There are many episodes of this educational show available online. They can be found on youtube and on PBS. The PBS site also has games and other features. Here is the PBS link to get you started:
https://pbskids.org/martha/
Books read aloud this week:
WHAT! Cried Granny by Kate Lum
Perfectly Martha by Susan Meddaugh
Celebrating Chinese New Year by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith
Green Cat by Dayal Kaur Khalsa
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