This week the students completed their own surveys of the class, wrote book reviews and created art like the famous artist Andy Warhol!
Math: The children completed the data management unit by creating and interpreting pictographs and bar graphs. The summative activity was for each child to do his/her own survey. First the children asked a question that they wanted to know about the class. Next all the students in the class answered each others' survey questions. Then the children tallied the results and created a graph using that information. Finally, they answered interpretation questions about their survey and assembled all the information on large construction paper. These math posters will go on display on the bulletin board in our classroom.
At the end of the week, the children looked at ways to compare two different things using a Venn diagram. This is a drawing of two overlapping circles and the focus is to think on what is different about the two objects, and write these on the two outer spaces. In the overlapping space, the children wrote what both had or what was the same. First, as a group, we compared a book and a computer, then a pencil and a piece of chalk. On their own, each child compared his or herself with the animal they researched.
Writing: The students wrote book reports based on one of the six "Martha the Talking Dog" books that were read aloud recently. After choosing her/his favourite, each child wrote about the problem and solution in the story, their favourite part of the book, what they thought happened after the story ended and even offered alternative titles for the books.
The lowercase cursive letters covered this week were: e, f, h, k, l, o, p and s.
Reading: The class learned about "collective nouns" or names for groups of animals. For example, the name for a group of lions is a "pride" of lions. These words are a result of a parlor game from a hundreds of years ago, where people would try to create a specialist vocabulary to apply to groups of animals.
Science: The children did a great job using their animal books and reference sheets to independently complete their research graphic organizers, answering questions like, "What does the animal eat?" Every child had a conference with me to collect some extra information about her/his research animal like "What is the science (Latin) name of the animal?" The students are now taking their research facts and putting the facts into proper sentences in their writing journals.
Art: The class learned about the American modern artist, Andy Warhol. He was known for his use of repeated images and for using images of common everyday things in his art like cows and cans of soup. He decided to use a picture of Campbell's soup because he had soup and a sandwich each day for lunch and he thought that the label was well designed. He used multiple images of the soup can and would often colour the same image in different ways. Did you know that his famous painting of 100 soup cans is now worth $11 million dollars?
The children were challenged to make their own versions of Andy Warhol style art. First, they drew a picture of a can of vegetable soup. Then, four photocopies of these drawings were made. Next, after learning how to use watercolour pencils, the students coloured their four images in four different ways. Finally, they used plain water to turn the watercolour pencil areas into "paint". The children will use these four images together in a final art image next week.
Media Literacy/Oral Communication: This week on The Room 222 Interview Show our guest was Ms. Tiralongo. She is a teacher at our school. This video can be seen in a separate posting.
Books read aloud this week:
Andy Warhol: Pop Art Painter by Susan Goldman Rubin
Manners Can Be Fun by Munro Leaf
Six Dinner Sid by Inga Moore
A Shiver of Sharks - A Collection of Aquatic Collective Nouns by Patrick George
A Filth of Starlings,- A Collection of Bird Collective Nouns by Patrick George
A Drove of Bullocks - A Collection of Animal Collective Nouns by Patrick George
A Crackle of Crickets - A Collection of Insect Collective Nouns by Patrick George
Math: The children completed the data management unit by creating and interpreting pictographs and bar graphs. The summative activity was for each child to do his/her own survey. First the children asked a question that they wanted to know about the class. Next all the students in the class answered each others' survey questions. Then the children tallied the results and created a graph using that information. Finally, they answered interpretation questions about their survey and assembled all the information on large construction paper. These math posters will go on display on the bulletin board in our classroom.
At the end of the week, the children looked at ways to compare two different things using a Venn diagram. This is a drawing of two overlapping circles and the focus is to think on what is different about the two objects, and write these on the two outer spaces. In the overlapping space, the children wrote what both had or what was the same. First, as a group, we compared a book and a computer, then a pencil and a piece of chalk. On their own, each child compared his or herself with the animal they researched.
Writing: The students wrote book reports based on one of the six "Martha the Talking Dog" books that were read aloud recently. After choosing her/his favourite, each child wrote about the problem and solution in the story, their favourite part of the book, what they thought happened after the story ended and even offered alternative titles for the books.
The lowercase cursive letters covered this week were: e, f, h, k, l, o, p and s.
Reading: The class learned about "collective nouns" or names for groups of animals. For example, the name for a group of lions is a "pride" of lions. These words are a result of a parlor game from a hundreds of years ago, where people would try to create a specialist vocabulary to apply to groups of animals.
Science: The children did a great job using their animal books and reference sheets to independently complete their research graphic organizers, answering questions like, "What does the animal eat?" Every child had a conference with me to collect some extra information about her/his research animal like "What is the science (Latin) name of the animal?" The students are now taking their research facts and putting the facts into proper sentences in their writing journals.
Art: The class learned about the American modern artist, Andy Warhol. He was known for his use of repeated images and for using images of common everyday things in his art like cows and cans of soup. He decided to use a picture of Campbell's soup because he had soup and a sandwich each day for lunch and he thought that the label was well designed. He used multiple images of the soup can and would often colour the same image in different ways. Did you know that his famous painting of 100 soup cans is now worth $11 million dollars?
The children were challenged to make their own versions of Andy Warhol style art. First, they drew a picture of a can of vegetable soup. Then, four photocopies of these drawings were made. Next, after learning how to use watercolour pencils, the students coloured their four images in four different ways. Finally, they used plain water to turn the watercolour pencil areas into "paint". The children will use these four images together in a final art image next week.
Media Literacy/Oral Communication: This week on The Room 222 Interview Show our guest was Ms. Tiralongo. She is a teacher at our school. This video can be seen in a separate posting.
Books read aloud this week:
Andy Warhol: Pop Art Painter by Susan Goldman Rubin
Manners Can Be Fun by Munro Leaf
Six Dinner Sid by Inga Moore
A Shiver of Sharks - A Collection of Aquatic Collective Nouns by Patrick George
A Filth of Starlings,- A Collection of Bird Collective Nouns by Patrick George
A Drove of Bullocks - A Collection of Animal Collective Nouns by Patrick George
A Crackle of Crickets - A Collection of Insect Collective Nouns by Patrick George
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