With the Olympics coming to an end we found it only fitting to finish the week with some Olympic centres. The students looked great all dressed in red and white to support the Team Canada.
Lincoln and Cole wear their Canada jerseys.
Ethan ice skates.
Cameron decorates an ice skate.
Max and Nate play ice hockey.
Aubrey paints Olympic rings.
Nash takes his turn at curling.
Cole and Matthew have fun racing the bobsleds.
Our JKSK friends have fun playing some Olympic games on the Ipads.
Carter, Lincoln and Cameron make their very own Olympic medal!
The Olympic fun continued into the gym. Mrs. Diemer created Team Canada, Team U.S.A., Team Ireland and Team China and had some fun games of floor hockey. The students loved it!
We started a new unit on measurement. We began by investigating non-standard units of measurement. We drew three lines on a piece of paper and asked the children which line is the longest and how we can find out.
As a group we decided to use connecting blocks to measure the lines.
When asked which one was the longest, the following answers were given:
- the zig-zag is smaller because it is squished and the green one is longer because it is stretched (Max)
- the blue one because the other ones go up and down and the blue one just goes straight (Tayy)
- they will be the same because they end in the same spot (Lincoln)
The zig-zag is the longest because the zig-zag is the same.
The blue one because the pink one is pointy and the green one is curvy.
They all start in the same spot so they will all be the same.
We used the connecting cubes to solve our problem.
We ran into a problem when we went to measure the curvy and zig-zag lines. Max told us to use the links because they will bend easier but as a group we decided that we wanted to use the same manipulative to measure all the lines. Together Max, Owen and Ethan figured out that they didn't have to connect the cubes so that they would follow the line.
Once all the lines were covered with connecting cubes we counted them. The longest line was......it was a tie....the PINK and the BLUE had 46 connecting cubes! Great work JKSK friends!
Nate brought in a Space book to share with the class. We placed the book at the science centre and many of the students took interest in learning and talking about stars, rocket ships and planets. Mrs. King gathered some books about space and the planets and placed them at our Discovery table. We also added popsicle sticks and Styrofoam balls. It was a very popular spot in our classroom. Students made rocket ships, stars and a number of different planets.
Elijah said "I made Earth. The blue is water and the white is the Arctic!"
Cole said "I made the Earth. The purple stuff is the freezing rain!"
Joseph made a sun and Jayla made Jupiter.
Chloe made Earth and Addison made a comet.
Eric made Earth.
Cameron made Earth.
Ethan made Saturn with rings around it. Toby made Venus and Nathan made a sun.
We found that our students enjoyed making puppets during our geometry unit so we decided to add paper bags and craft materials to our make-n-take centre so they could continue with this interest.
Elijah made one puppet.
He then decided to make two puppets and told me that they are brothers.
Finally he took one of the brothers and he added a hat to keep him warm.
Lincoln made a puppet that had a cape on his back!
The other class was using the puppet theatre so the three boys improvised and used our bookcase as the theatre.
We placed some 10 frames at one of our math centres this past week along with numbers 1 to 10 and some rocks to represent the numbers. Toby enjoyed working with one of them independently. I had a chance to sit with him and talked to him about what he was doing.
He told me that he took the 1 and the 3 and he made 13. He then took the rocks and he filled the 10 frame. He then proceeded to count the rocks and told me that it makes 10. He explained that that didn't make 13 so he added another 3 rocks and that made 13. Great problem solving Toby!