Sunday, 17 April 2016

April 11 - 15th

Reader's Workshop

This week we continued our study of poetry. In "Rainglasses" Shel Silverstein assumes that if sunglasses keep out the sun, then rainglasses should keep out the rain. He then reimages a pair of glasses with windshield wipers. After reading this poem the students were asked to transform an ordinary object into something extraordinary. Then they wrote a two-line poem describing their creation. Of course their favourite part about this activity was reading their poems aloud to the class.





The students continued to focus on their vocabulary by "Drawing and Labeling" nine words from their Words Their Way lists.


Writing Workshop

During Writer's Workshop, the students continued to work on their "All About Me" paragraphs. Once they have written all of the paragraphs, we will be putting them together to booklets for each of the students.

Math

In math we continued to work through our measurement unit.  The following goals were covered:
  • estimate lengths in kilometres
  • order and assign appropriate units (cm, m & km)
  • convert metres to centimetres
  • estimate and measure perimeters using non-standard units

Social Studies

The students completed their research on Ukraine. They will start putting their information into a Power Point presentation next week.

Student of the Week

Congratulations to Miss V for being chosen as Student of the Week. She is a very hard working student who always puts in her best effort. Way to go!


Rainbow Lunch Winners

Congratulations to the two students from 3D whose names were drawn from the rainbow lunch entries.


Art

The students completed their "optical illusion" kites this week. They are now on display in our hallway.




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