April 17th

The students have been highly engaged in our class novel, "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane"  So far, Edward has had quite the journey.  He has spent 267 days at the bottom of the ocean, been recused and lived with a fisherman, travelled by rail with a hobo, been put to work as a scarecrow and felt love and loss during his time with a young girl named Sarah Ruth.  We finished our day reading about Edward's china head being cracked against a counter by the angry owner of a diner.  We cannot wait to see what happens to Edward next!  We have been representing the different parts of Edward's journey on nets of geometric solids.  As we complete the book, we will use the nets to create 3D sculptures that represent the book.

Representing Edward's Journey

One of the nets

More of the journey

In Math, we continued our work with fractions.  We worked on a number of word problems where students had to read carefully to determine the question being asked.  We also began looking at a variety of polygons, grouping and classifying them based on attributes such as number of sides, types of angles and directions of lines.

Working with a partner to guess a shape using different attributes

Many of our students have large roles in the Opera and have been spending a large portion of each day working in the gym on their scenes.  They are certainly one tired group of children!  Our class zombie song is coming along nicely.  We encourage the students to practice our song and actions at home.  You can find both the words and the music at the link below.  We know this is a busy time of year and many families are involved in sports and other activities in the evenings.  We would like for all students to be at all three performances of "The Wilds".  The performances will be such a wonderful celebration of many months of hard work.  

https://sites.google.com/a/educbe.ca/opera-music/opera-music

In Phys Ed, we took advantage of the beautiful weather and played a variety of games outside including soccer, kickball and frisbee.

Playing Frisbee