In our Dance unit, students are working with streamers. Today we practised synchronizing movements as well as combining different movements and levels together. We can move the streamers in a variety of ways... flicking, twirling, circular, zigzag, wavy. ...and in a variety of levels...high, medium, and low. We combined movements to make interesting designs.
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We have begun our science unit on Habitats and Communities. Ask your child to define these scientific words: habitat, population, community, migration. Ask him/her what all habitats have and other facts that he/she has learned so far about habitats!
In our Science unit on Light and Sound we have been discussing high and low pitch sounds. Students created their own instruments to try and vary the pitch of the sound. Students performing with their musical instruments!Students are asked to focus on characters in narratives. Characteristics describe what a character's personality is like, not what that character likes to do or what he/she is good at doing. For example, we could say that a character is good at playing basketball. The characteristic would be "athletic". We have had discussions about some interesting words that can describe characters. Instead of words like "nice" and "fun", we listed more interesting words like "courageous" or "artistic" or "kind-hearted". For each characteristic, students need to provide evidence from the story. How do we know that a character has this characteristic? When reading with your child, ask him/her to describe a characteristic of a character and to back this up with proof or evidence from the story. Today, we focused on the character of Templeton in "Charlotte's Web". Writing three characteristics of a character along with evidence is a required question on the CASI reading assessment coming up again later this term! Practice helps!
In our Health unit on Healthy Eating, students have been looking at how many servings a day they need in each of the food groups on Canada's Food Guide. Today, they looked at how much of each type of food makes up a serving. Are you getting enough of each of these food groups per day?
Yesterday, students read Chapter 5 of "Charlotte's Web" in their Literacy Circles and had a discussion about the main idea of the chapter. The main idea is what the author wants the reader to remember or learn. Students did a great job of determining the main idea of this chapter which describes the beginning of a beautiful friendship! Here is an example of a student's understanding of the main idea from Chapter 5. See how this student not only shows an understanding of the main idea but gives evidence (an example from the story) to back it up!
In Science we continue learning about sound. Today, we learned some interesting facts about how the ear works! Ask your child to tell you ways to keep his/her ears safe. Ask him/her to explain how the vibrations of sound are picked up by the ear and sent to the brain.
We are finishing off our Number Sense unit with division. Students are realizing how memorizing multiplication tables really helps! We have discovered many different strategies to divide. Today, we began working with larger numbers. As an introduction to the concept of long division, students were dividing numbers using Base Ten Blocks.
Students are asked to write about their observations and conclusions in Science. They are encouraged to use a lot of detail, colour, and labels in their diagram drawings. They should include detailed observations and conclusions with scientific language. They should describe the experiment in a way that another scientist could do the same experiment to see if they can get the same results. Here is an example of experiment writing by a student about our light and prism experiment today. Students were working on an experiment with light and a glass prism today. Ask your child to explain to you what his/her observations and conclusions were of today's experiment. Ask your child what makes up white light!
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