IMPORTANT INFORMATION
We Club Info! The Prince of Wales We Club is holding a fundraiser for Unicef this week. They have 2 activities planned, and to participate is by donation.
Dead Battery Drop Off The Prince of Wales We Club is asking for dead battery donations. Did you know that zinc deficiency in our diet can have a huge impact on brain and body growth? One battery has enough zinc to be processed into vitamin pills for 6 children! Send any non-leaking batteries down. They are collecting them until end of May. IMPORTANT DATES May 16: Fun Lunch (Wok Box) May 18: PD Day (no school for students) May 21: Victoria Day (school closed) May 25: Volunteer Tea OUR DAY 151 days down, 29 days left. Students started off their day drawing, labelling, and writing 2+ interesting facts about their K’nex bridges. Most are almost finished with the drawings, and now have to make sure they have their info. We also did our beam experiment. Students had to compare the three different types of paper beams we created (accordion fold beam, rectangular beam, box girder beam) with how much weight they could each hold. We talked about what makes a fair experiment (ask your child what makes it fair), and how we would be recording the information. Students wrote a hypothesis, drew diagrams of the beams, and then tested them. They recorded their information, and then wrote a conclusion of what they learned, using the sentence starter of “I think that _________ because _________.” When a student wasn’t sure about the “why”, they were sent to discuss it with a classmate. Students continued to work on their 12-Room Observation Animal Poetry. Students were reminded to use the Word Bank for their animal, their notes from Zoo School, and to look back at their 6-Room Poetry process. In math, we watched a video about multiplication, which was really the springboard for arrays. We used our background knowledge and experience from the Circles and Stars Game (sets and how many in each set), and number lines to apply it to arrays. We also used grid paper to help us make apparent arrays. Most students picked up on this fairly quickly. We finished the lesson off with a demonstration of how the multiplication chart is an array! (Mind blown!) This is setting everyone up nicely for perimeter and area. I will challenge the class to figure out how much soil I need to order to fill in the ankle twisting, push-mower tire catching holes left behind from those shake-my-fist-at-giving-them-the-stink-eye-nothing-you-can-do-about-it dew worms. 29 days left!! Cheerios! Ms Lauf Comments are closed.
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