Students in room 8 have been asking all year for a pajama day. They have been working hard in completing their tasks and assignments, therefore tomorrow students will be allowed to wear their pajamas and bring a stuffie. I also have not heard back from any parents in regard to watching Wonder. Therefore in the afternoon, students will be watching the first hour to the movie. This will allow time for students to work on their Venn diagram and to participate in small group discussions focused on the questions I posted yesterday, I have also invited students to bring in snacks IF they want to. I said it had to be something small and that they would need enough for everyone (unless its their own snack). Please do not go out of your way for this, as an afternoon snack is a regular occurrence for our class.
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Well the students are getting excited for summer holidays. The energy has increased significantly compared to the past two weeks. We are trying our best to keep going, keep focused and keep learning.
This week in Math we will be working on probability and 3D shapes. Today we started a game where we rolled a deca dice and pulled a card. We went over rounding skills and students placed these numbers on a chart. Tomorrow we will explore the findings of these numbers and make inferences as to why some numbers are more likely than others to be recorded. Later in the week I would like to explore an activity where students s I wold like to explore 3D shapes and building bubble wands. To make this mini STEM project work, I would really like some pipe cleaners. If you happen to have any laying around your house, please send them in. This will help with making the 3d shapes stable enough to be dipped into the bubble water. In addition, we have finally finished reading the novel Wonder. This was an amazing book to share with the students to explore the topics of empathy, kindness, difference and courage. I recently watched the movie at home and thought that it would be neat to see if students could be able to catch the differences compared to the book. I would like students to participate in a discussion about why a movie producer may cut certain parts but keep others. How the author describes characters, but the movie projects them a different way, How we visualize certain events and anothers perspective of the same event looks different. This movie is rated PG therefore I felt it was important to ask for your permission before I show it. As I watched the movie myself, there are two parts where parents may not feel comfortable having their child watch. For example, there is a scene where there is physical fighting between students as one student stands up for another student. Another is when the main characters older sister has her first kiss with a boy. I have explained to all the students that we will have to respect the wishes of all our parents. If you are not comfortable with your child watching this movie this week, please send me an email and I will think of an alternative activity. Notices were sent home today for students who have been selected for the Thursday time slot of the talent show. Students who are in Fridays slot will be given either tomorrow or Wednesday. In Math we have been looking closely at how to build a bar graph. Students used the information from heart to heart to determine which station from our class made the most money. First we counted how many tickets each group got. Some groups only got 27 tickets, where as others got over 600. Our next step was to calculate how much money that translates to. Each student used a different strategy to find this. Some used a table and and created a column for 4 tickets equal $1, 8 tickets = $2 and so on. Sone students used division and others multiplication. Our third step was to round our calculations to the nearest dollar. This was a struggle for some students. Our final step was to place all this information onto our graph.
We will be continuing to work on graphing this week. Today students chose their own topic of interest and will be asking classmates questions and collecting data. They will then transfer that information into a bar graph to then share with their peers. Grade 4 parents - we will be sending out information about the grade 4 Farewell by Friday. I have mentioned in the past that it will be on Tuesday the 26th. Teachers are just working out some of the smaller details and once those have been considered, we will share with all of you. Students and I brainstormed last week how we can end our year with our final inquiry project. As we dive deeper into understanding waste in our world and how we can make a difference, we will also dive deeper into the natural waste management system of decomposers - specifically red wigglers. We thought about the different ways we have already shared our learning, through power point presentations, posters, I movie and short stories. Now students want to create a website. This is a new thing that we will be exploring, especially how to have 9 different working on the website simultaneously, but we will trouble shoot and work out the kinks as we go. Today students brainstormed the 9 topics of the red wigglers we will focus on:
Topics for Red wigglers: - Food/nutrients - - Reproduction - Life cycle - young - - Behaviours - actions - life style - - Environmental threats - protection - Habitat / How to make a bin - Biology - Anatomy - Characteristics - Blood type - Appearance - - Interesting Fact / uniqueness / diseases / Where do they come from? / relative animals / predators / Adaptations - - Castings - what is vermicompost - Why? So what??? - Decomposer - why we need them? - Types of worms for a vermicompost. - After Brainstorming the topics, students put themselves into "friend learning" groups and chose their top 3 choices. They will find out their topics on Wednesday. In Math today, we reviewed fractions and decimals. Some students still benefit from support in understanding how to draw fractions where as others are able to convert tenths and hundredths into decimals. Each day we will be reviewing the concepts while we work on a mini-project reflecting on heart to heart. We did have a lot of talking today in class so we ran out of time to complete our work. We had to use Math time to discuss how we keep our hand to ourselves and what it means to be a good learning and respect others. This took away time to complete the calculations of some of our heart to heart. By Wednesdays class, students are asked to figure out how much money each group collected in heart to heart tickets. If each ticket is $0.25, how much did each group collect? A - 27 tickets B - 69 tickets C - 27 tickets D - 110 tickets E - 167 tickets F - 130 tickets G - 62 tickets H - 201 tickets I - 142 tickets J - 623 tickets Students are challenged to NOT use a calculator, but to use an alternative strategy. They will be expected to share the strategy that they used to solve each station. This needs to be completed by Wednesday. |