We spent most of this week listening to stories, discussing and writing about the topic of Remembrance Day. On Monday we watched a video for younger learners to help them understand the significance of the poppy. The students worked in groups of three to write acrostic poems using the word REMEMBER. They brainstormed words and phrases that began with the letters in the word. Then I edited the rough copies and the students worked conscientiously on the good copies in their Creative Journals. Jasper said he wanted to do his best work to show respect for the soldiers. The photo below shows his excellent work.
Art
All of the students (K-6) engaged in art projects which were displayed in the gym for the CHS Remembrance Day assembly. Since we have spent time learning about the significance of the poppy we used oil pastels to create abstract poppy mosaics. Each student drew and colored one quarter of the poppy and then we put them together. The students enjoyed seeing the finished products come to life when they were joined together. We discussed how this was a community piece and we all had to do our job in order for the poppy to be complete.
The students were introduced to growing or increasing patterns this week. We watched a short video that showed three individual stages of a pattern growing. The children followed along and drew the first three stages. Then they had to figure out and draw stages 4 and 5. I was quickly able to observe which students saw what was happening immediately so I challenged them to continue the pattern up to stage 10. They left the carpet and worked independently elsewhere in the classroom. I proceeded to present the task again and talk through it with the remaining students as we did it together on the whiteboard up to stage 6. The children were also encouraged to communicate their mathematical thinking using pictures and/or words. After drawing and writing, the students used various manipulatives to build increasing patterns.
Varlen and Adham (Gr. 2) were two of the students who quickly observed what was happening to the pattern as the stages were being presented on the Smartboard. They wanted to build their increasing pattern using centimeter squares because noone else was using them so they would be able to make their pattern grow more.
Romeo (Gr. 1) asked me to take a photo of his increasing pattern using dice. He wanted to make sure I knew he had understood this new math concept.
HOMEWORK - Have your child draw you a repeating pattern and an increasing pattern. They should be able to explain what is different about them to you.
To conclude, I would just like to mention how extremely proud I was of the students in Room 1 today as they exhibited excellent listening skills and respect throughout the duration of our Remembrance Day Assembly!!!
Have a great long weekend and we'll see you Tuesday 😊😊😊
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