Being a Global Citizen....

This week we talked about how we share the world. We share the water, the land and the air. We decided that as global citizens, we could tackle the school yard. We decided to plant the front flower box, with flowers that Independent has donated to us. We also walked around the school yard and picked up garbage. On Friday, we designed, built and hung bird feeders in the trees around the school.

We started swimming this week for gym class. The students had a blast splashing around in the water!

Math was very busy this week. We worked on understanding the perimeter of regular and irregular shapes. Students were busy measuring metres and recording the perimeter of different objects around our room. 

We also constructed different shapes for a given perimeter to show that there are many possible shapes with the same distance around.

We finished our Measurement unit learning about mass. Students were able to estimate, measure and record the mass of different objects.

1000 cm cubes weigh 1 kg

1 cm cube weighs 1 g

Students estimated mass by using referents. We talked about 1 kg being about the same weight as our math text book or a box of cereal. We also discussed 1g to be about the weight of a Skittle, Smartie or jellybean. 

We tried to find objects around the classroom that weighed the same as our 1 kg bag of oats.

We began our new unit of Geometry. We talked about polygons and how they have straight sides that are joined. We used geoboards to create various shapes with varying sides. We made polygons with 3 sides (triangle), 4 sides (quadrilateral), 5 sides (pentagon), 6 sides (hexagon) and 8 sides (octagon).

We also worked on sorting polygons according to a sorting rule. One example the students used was...Polygons with 5 sides (pentagons) and polygons with 3 sides (triangles). They came up with a variety of other rules as well.

 We finished reading "Charlotte's Web". Please review with your child some of the new vocabulary words we have learned during our novel study.

We presented another Readers Theatre. Rafunzel and The Ugly Woodpecker. The students loved presenting and have worked hard on their expression.

We completed our science Life Cycle slide shows and presented them to the class this week. The students did an awesome job and loved being a "teacher"!

 
For Art this week, we made bird feeders to go along with our focus of Global Citizenship! The feeders were painted and hung in the trees around the school yard.

EXCITING CHANGES!!! A butterfly has emerged!

Congratulations to our new Student of the Week!