TEACHER'S PET CODING SESSION
The students spent the morning learning about coding and practicing in a variety of ways. Then they had the opportunity to demonstrate their skills by programming a robot mouse through different mazes. They had a lot of fun with this hands on learning experience.
LANGUAGE ARTS
This week's writing was based on the book "In My Heart" by Jo Witek. This book uses adjectives and descriptive phrases to portray feelings in our heart. After reading the book we had a class discussion and brainstormed all of the emotions we feel.
The students each picked two feelings that they wanted to illustrate and describe on paper. They were asked to think about the colour they would use, what their face would look like, an animal that reminds them of that emotion, what the weather would be like and what happens to their body while they feel this way.
Using their sketches and idea pages, they worked on organizing their writing into a paragraph. They all really dug deep to come up with some great descriptions about the emotions they picked. Stay tuned for their final writing projects next week!
MATH
We started working on subtracting two digit numbers, without regrouping. The students were reminded to put the bigger number on top and make sure their ones and tens columns were stacked properly.
SCIENCE
The students learned about animal hearing by watching videos about frogs, elephants, bats, owls and dolphins. While watching the videos, they were asked to pull out important information and create webs for each animal.
We watched a few videos about the different instrument families and then the students had a blast making their own Kazoos! We talked about how the sound waves are made and how the pitch and volume can be changed.
To help the students prepare for their unit test, we played a few rounds of the online game KAHOOT!
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