In Language Arts, we finished our New Year's resolution projects which are now hanging in our classroom.
We began a new writing assignment in our class this week. All About Me is a writing activity we will complete over the remainder of the year. The students will be writing detailed paragraphs on topics about themselves. They will need to use topic sentences, 3-5 supporting details and finish their paragraphs with concluding sentences. Once their rough copy is complete in their booklets, they will type them up in google docs and share them with us, so we can edit them together. The good copies will be printed, illustrated and compiled to make a booklet for their memory book binders.
This week we read "Name That Tree" and "The Extraordinary Cat" from our Collections series. The students have been working on their fluency and expression as they take turns reading aloud to the class. We also stop throughout the story to talk about the characters, setting and events that are taking place.
We completed a "Making Words" activity. The students were given the letters f, s, s, k, n, l, a, e, o, w. They worked on their own to build 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 letter words. Then they had time to work with a partner to share words and create new ones they hadn't built on their own. We compiled all of the words as a class and then the students tried to put all of the letters together to figure out the mystery word. It didn't take long before they figured out that SNOWFLAKES was the scrambled word.
In Math, we worked on subtracting two digit numbers, with and without regrouping. We have spent a lot of time practicing questions as a class in order to increase their confidence before they start working through questions on their own.
In Science, we spent some time discussing what we know about pitch, volume and how sound travels. We watched a video and wrote down notes about hearing and sound. This information was added to our lapbooks.
We also worked through some vocabulary and drew sketches to help better understand some of the new words we learned this week.
We did a group read of a book called Sound All Around and then the students did an experiment to explore pitch a little more. They chose a partner and were given a ruler. The ruler was placed over the edge of the desk at 3 different lengths. They were asked to observe changes in vibrations as the length of the ruler changed.
High and low sounds depend on how fast an object vibrates. The ruler was vibrating faster when we heard a high sound. When you make a low sound, the ruler was vibrating more slowly. The number of times an object vibrates in a given amount of time is called frequency. High pitched sounds have a higher frequency than low sounds. Their findings were that a longer ruler makes a lower sound and a shorter ruler makes a higher sound.
We also completed the vocabulary section in our lap books. Together we came with the definitions for ~ sound, volume, pitch, frequency, vibration, eardrum, outer ear and sound waves. These have been added to a pocket in our lap books.
We finished our snowmen in Art. The students continued working on colouring, shading using chalk pastels and cutting out the final pieces for their project!
This week in Physical Education we worked on gymnastics skills. The students participated in a variety of balancing, locomotor and strength stations.
Congratulations to our new Student of the Week!
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