Our puzzles about the Blackfoot People are coming along! We are ready to share our puzzle piece with the rest of the group before we find some wall space for them!
We have moved from time to area in our measurement unit. We are looking at how to figure out the area of a shape in square units.
We have been working on writing prayers in Religion class! This is a great visual that we were working from when thinking about a prayer. It is an easy way to remember all the different groups of people to pray for!
Today we learned about what a simile and metaphor are through exploring the poem "I Asked the Young Boy Who Cannot See."
A simile is a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as" while a metaphor compares two things without these two words. Using the poem as inspiration, we wrote our own color poems as a group today! Come check them out! I asked the little boy who cannot see, “And what is color like?” “Why, green,” said he, “Is like the rustle when the wind blows through The forest; running water, that is blue; And red is like a trumpet sound; and pink Is like the smell of roses; and I think That purple must be like a thunderstorm; And yellow is like something soft and warm; And white is a pleasant stillness when you lie And dream.” We are finishing up our chapter on the First Nations in Social Studies by learning about the Blackfoot People, their stories, traditions, and how they lived with other First Nations groups. Each student is going to become an expert on one area, or one piece of the puzzle, and then we will put it all together to make one big picture!
http://www.glenbow.org/blackfoot/en/html/index.htm In math we have started our measurement unit, and one of the first things we learn is time. This can be tricky for some students who don't know how to tell it yet. We were working strictly today with quarter passed, half passed and quarter to the hour (:15 :30 :45), and that language can be tricky, especially the quarter to time. If you think about it, please practice with students at home, or have them try some of the games on the following site to practice:
http://www.maths-games.org/time-games.html We started our morning by learning about couplets and how to write them. A couplet is any two line poem with the same number of syllables that rhyme. Students had a good time, and for some, harder than they thought, coming up with some couplets of their own!
With our fractions and decimals unit finished, we are moving onto measurement. We started today talking about metric notation when writing the date, and how it is always year, month, day. Today would be 15 03 12 for example. After this we will be reviewing (or learning for some) how to tell time, and ending the unit with learning about how to find the area of a shape!
In Language Arts we started Poetry yesterday! Students seemed to have a very strong opinion that poetry isn't fun, but I am hoping to change that idea for them! I introduced the topic briefly, and we talked a lot about how poems are all around us, including in their favorite songs on the radio these days. Poems can be serious, or they can be funny like the one we read below by Dennis Lee. We will be learning about different kinds of poems in the next little while, and attempting to write our own!
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