HOUSEKEEPING ITEMS
-Field trip forms for 5-2 are due Monday, September 17th. We still need 11 more volunteers!
-5-2 is bringing home their Friday Take Home Question sheets today. They are in their orange duotang. Please review the questions with your student and have a conversation about the content. These sheets need to be signed and returned on Monday. Thank you!
This week in 5-1 and 5-2...
HUMS/WRITING
We have been working on exploring the topic of identity as well as how we can impact the environment/how the environment impacts us. We are very early on in this but have made some webs and have started visual journal pages reflecting the topics.
We explored the creative side of our brains by creating CSI pages. These pages have three sections - colour, symbol, and image where students are able to draw and write what they feel and visualize to a piece of music or a soundscape (Soundscape links: Dreams by Nuages / She by Pensees/ Don't Stay Here by Frames / Heart-Shaped Box arranged by Ramin Djawadi). It is one of many journaling techniques that we will be learning over the next couple weeks. We have also looked at creating a Picture Page and a Sum-up Page for the topics of Canada's identity and our own identity. 5-2's newest addition to their journaling arsenal is the See/Wonder/Think/Feel page. They examined one of Claude Monet's Water Lillies pieces as well as a sculpture in London called Spider. 5-1 will do this next week.
We have jumped full-speed into writing and have learned the basics about four types of poetry: acrostic, colour, haiku, and odes. To go with our study on identity, we have picked an everyday object/person/or place to write an ode about and are creating stained-glass pastel art pieces to accompany them. We also started free-writing time where we get to make our own stories and used pictures to inspire us!
What students had to say...
"This is so fun!" - about CSI journaling
"I enjoyed listening to soundscapes." - about CSI journaling
"I enjoyed doing the picture prompts because it was very fun and we made our own stories." - about free writing time
"I liked doing the environment web - how does the environment impact me and how do I impact the environment?" - about our big question
"I liked the See/Wonder/Think/Feel page we did because it was fun doing it to describe [the piece of art] actually instead of writing just 10 sentences about it. You got to pick what you did." - about our See/Wonder/Think/Feel journaling
"I like the ode that rhymed. It sounded really good!" - during lesson on writing an ode
MATH/SCI
In math throughout this week we have continued to work on developing a deeper understanding of place value. We worked on creating numbers up into the millions and down into the hundredths by ourselves and with our peers. We have spent time as a large group looking at different numbers on a number line, coming to consensus on their values, and organizing them along a number line as a big group. This was a fun task and one that generated lots of discussion and comments.
Students in 5-1 had an opportunity to get their hands on a meaty math problem involving a gold chain. I won't give any more information away as I want to have some fun with 5-2 on Monday!
In science we continued to look at weather in our world and how the changing weather can impact our lives and the lives of the people around us. We looked at a short video on Climate Change from National Geographic. Take a look at the video here. This generated a great conversation in both rooms and we worked on looking how humans have made an impact on contributing to climate change and some of the ways we can reduce this impact as a society.
We are also hard at work on our Picasso-inspired self-portraits, which are turning out beautifully! We can't wait for you to see them!
-Field trip forms for 5-2 are due Monday, September 17th. We still need 11 more volunteers!
-5-2 is bringing home their Friday Take Home Question sheets today. They are in their orange duotang. Please review the questions with your student and have a conversation about the content. These sheets need to be signed and returned on Monday. Thank you!
This week in 5-1 and 5-2...
HUMS/WRITING
We have been working on exploring the topic of identity as well as how we can impact the environment/how the environment impacts us. We are very early on in this but have made some webs and have started visual journal pages reflecting the topics.
We explored the creative side of our brains by creating CSI pages. These pages have three sections - colour, symbol, and image where students are able to draw and write what they feel and visualize to a piece of music or a soundscape (Soundscape links: Dreams by Nuages / She by Pensees/ Don't Stay Here by Frames / Heart-Shaped Box arranged by Ramin Djawadi). It is one of many journaling techniques that we will be learning over the next couple weeks. We have also looked at creating a Picture Page and a Sum-up Page for the topics of Canada's identity and our own identity. 5-2's newest addition to their journaling arsenal is the See/Wonder/Think/Feel page. They examined one of Claude Monet's Water Lillies pieces as well as a sculpture in London called Spider. 5-1 will do this next week.
We have jumped full-speed into writing and have learned the basics about four types of poetry: acrostic, colour, haiku, and odes. To go with our study on identity, we have picked an everyday object/person/or place to write an ode about and are creating stained-glass pastel art pieces to accompany them. We also started free-writing time where we get to make our own stories and used pictures to inspire us!
What students had to say...
"This is so fun!" - about CSI journaling
"I enjoyed listening to soundscapes." - about CSI journaling
"I enjoyed doing the picture prompts because it was very fun and we made our own stories." - about free writing time
"I liked doing the environment web - how does the environment impact me and how do I impact the environment?" - about our big question
"I liked the See/Wonder/Think/Feel page we did because it was fun doing it to describe [the piece of art] actually instead of writing just 10 sentences about it. You got to pick what you did." - about our See/Wonder/Think/Feel journaling
"I like the ode that rhymed. It sounded really good!" - during lesson on writing an ode
MATH/SCI
In math throughout this week we have continued to work on developing a deeper understanding of place value. We worked on creating numbers up into the millions and down into the hundredths by ourselves and with our peers. We have spent time as a large group looking at different numbers on a number line, coming to consensus on their values, and organizing them along a number line as a big group. This was a fun task and one that generated lots of discussion and comments.
Students in 5-1 had an opportunity to get their hands on a meaty math problem involving a gold chain. I won't give any more information away as I want to have some fun with 5-2 on Monday!
In science we continued to look at weather in our world and how the changing weather can impact our lives and the lives of the people around us. We looked at a short video on Climate Change from National Geographic. Take a look at the video here. This generated a great conversation in both rooms and we worked on looking how humans have made an impact on contributing to climate change and some of the ways we can reduce this impact as a society.
We are also hard at work on our Picasso-inspired self-portraits, which are turning out beautifully! We can't wait for you to see them!