The Room 5 Interview Show!

This week our guest was Ms. Konjhodzic. She is the music teacher at our school.

Update from Ms. R

The homework for this week is to write a book report on a favourite book and answer some math questions on money using the worksheet sent home with each student on Friday. This homework is due on Friday, February 28th.

Please Note: 

The cold and wet weather outside means that often socks and mittens get wet! Please tuck a fresh pair of socks and mittens in your child's backpack so that they can be dry and comfortable for the whole day. Recall that the students are outside for 15 minutes of recess in the morning and afternoon and 30 minutes at lunchtime (60 minutes in total).

News for February 21

News for February 21

This four-day week saw the students doing everything from learning to knit to making cash registers to writing a story while pretending to be a penguin!

The students heard the story Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers once again. Then we talked about what the silent penguin might have been thinking in the story. The students then learned how to fold an origami penguin to help them pretend to be a penguin so they could each write a story from the viewpoint of the penguin.

The children took the vocabulary words they chose previously and worked in their table groups to create posters to display these words and their definitions. 

The students learned how to write a basic book report. After hearing the story What? Cried Granny by Kate Lum, each student wrote about their favourite parts in the book, how the pictures helped to tell the story and how the author could have improved the story.

This week, Vishnu and Ivy interviewed Ms. Konjhodzic. She is our music teacher. The video can be found in a separate posting.

In math, the class continued to talk about money. The focus is now on adding money amounts and solving math word problems. We are creating a "Room 5 Store"! The students brainstormed what we would need to create a store and on Friday, the children began to work with a partner to make their own cash registers.

In guided reading, the children read about the important of country flags in our world and how they are designed to reflect something about the countries they represent.

The children learning about knitting and how knitted fabric is made. To help them learn how to knit, the students each made a knitting "corker" and began to knit using the wool they dyed with Kool-aid last month.

Books read aloud this week:

My Father's Dragon (chapter book - finished) by Ruth Stiles Gannett

The Flag Book by Letta Potter

What? Cried Granny by Kate Lum

The First Drawing by Mordecai Gerstein

The Room 5 Interview Show!

Our guest this week was Ms. Mantello. She is the librarian at our school.

Update from Ms. R

I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a safe and happy Family Day holiday on Monday!

Please remember that Thursday, February 20 from 6:00-8:00 it's our school's first Family Fitness Night. I hope to see you there!

The homework for this week is to complete the language worksheet on Canadian symbols.There is also a math worksheet with practice questions from our math unit on money. This homework is due on Friday, February 21st.

News for February 14

News for February 14

On Monday this week the class celebrated the 100th day of school! The children did a lot of activities to help them understand the amount of 100. They counted and strung 100 "Froot Loop" cereal pieces. They drew and stamped 100 times on a 100 chart. They played with bags of 100 marbles, football cards, straws and cubes. They worked in small groups to link together 100 paper clips and measure how long the chain was. Of course we also finished creating our 100 pieces of CD art in the stairwell by our school.

In math, we reviewed skip counting by 2, 5, 10 and 25. This strategy helps students to count coins. The children learned and practiced counting coins and figuring out which coins can make different given amounts of money.

In writing, the students each read a typed version of their fairy tale stories. Then, the stories were read by another student and that student wrote a letter to the author of the story telling him/her the best part of the story, how they could improve the story and asked a question about the story. Finally, the author got a chance to read the letter and write a response to the question. These letters are now part of a class book.

The class learned about Flag Day. In Canada, Flag Day is on February 15 each year. It celebrates the day that the Canadian flag first was flown in Ottawa, on February 15, 1965. That makes the flag 49 years old. The students learned how to make a Canadian flag, focusing on the symmetry of the centre maple leaf. These flags are now on display in the hall outside of our classroom decorating our Winter Olympics display.

The students learned the story of St. Valentine. (Did you know it is thought he lived 1,700 years ago?) They created heart flower Valentines, wrote Valentine letters to their families, folded origami hearts and decorated paper bags for their Valentine "mailboxes". Of course, on Friday the students exchanged Valentine cards and enjoyed treats at our Valentine's Day party.

The class went to the gym to see a performance celebrating Black History Month. The musicians and dancers entertained the students with drumming and dancing and even taught the students a dance.

Books read aloud this week:

My Father's Dragon (chapter book - continued) by Ruth Stiles Gannett
The 100 Shirts of Mr. Lee by Nancy Rawlinson

Here is a video showing some of the crazy shirts of Mr. Lee! (From a 100 days project done with my
class five years ago in 2009.)

 

The Room 5 Interview Show!

This week our guest was Ms. Francesca. She is the gym teacher at our school.