Country Research Project

Hello Everyone!

Thank you for visiting our blog. We had another action packed week!

First, Miss MacLeod was away from Monday-Wednesday this week. She was in Vancouver for a teaching conference. Ms. H was a guest teacher in our class while Miss MacLeod was gone.

Second, we spent lots of time working on our country research project. Our learning goal for the project is, "I can explain how the culture of my country makes it unique." Here are some interesting facts we have learned so far about Peru, India, Ukraine and Tunisia.

- "In Peru their clothing is very different than ours." - A
- "The food they eat in India is different." -S
- "Ukraine was founded in 1991." -D
- "In India they celebrate Holi and they throw coloured powder at each other." - J
- "Ukraine is close to Russia." -R

Lastly, we won the Golden Garbage Can for the 3rd time this week!!!! WOOHOO! Mr. Themo says we are the class that has won the most times this year!

Have a lovely wintery weekend!

Love Room 13

Bio Poems and Self Portraits

Welcome everyone to our blog!

It was a chilly, short week in Room 13.

First, we finished our bio poems! In the poems, we described ourselves and what makes us each special! Here are some reasons why the students of Room 13 are unique:

- "I can talk another language." -A
- "I am a good video gamer." -M
- "I love Lego!" - D
- "I can run like Super Mario!" - G
- "I can make friends." - A

Then, we worked on sketching self portraits to go along with the good copies of our poems. We had a special visitor help us with this activity! Miss Nikki, Miss MacLeod's sister came in for our afternoon. Here are some self portraits from famous artists that we studied.

We decided that self portraits should:

- look realistic

- be detailed 

- look similar to you!

Next week, we are going to work on our research projects of India, Peru, Ukraine and Tunisia!

Have a great 3 day weekend!

Love Room 13

Tunisia, Peru, Ukraine, India Research Websites

Peru
http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/ssperuic/html/peruimagescollection.html
https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/countries/peru/
http://www.2learn.ca/kids/listSocG3.aspx?Type=3

Tunisia
http://www.2learn.ca/kids/listSocG3.aspx?Type=3

India
http://www.2learn.ca/kids/listSocG3.aspx?Type=3

Ukraine
http://www.2learn.ca/kids/listSocG3.aspx?Type=3

Remembrance Day

Hello Everyone!

We had another great week!

To honor Remembrance Day, we created poppy art and wrote cinquain poems. Cinquains are descriptive poems that have five lines. Here are some examples of our work. We also had a Remembrance Day Assembly at school. Remember to take some time this weekend to remember all of the people that lost their lives in war.

Next, we continued our geology work, and researched how rocks and minerals are used in our daily lives. Students may work on their presentations at home using GoogleDrive!

Last week we went through different waste bins and made tally charts to record the items were in the incorrect bin. This week we turned the tally charts into bar graphs. We made a checklist of the elements that must be included on a bar graph. Some students even challenged themselves to skip count by 4s on the Y-axis!

          

Have a wonderful weekend!

Love Room 13

Rocks and Minerals Research Websites

http://www2.needham.k12.ma.us/mitchell/technology/lessons/rocks/use.htm

http://natural-history.uoregon.edu/collections/web-galleries/everyday-uses-rocks-and-minerals

http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/thezone/minerals/usage/index.htm

Our Hallo-Week!

Greetings Everyone!

This week was exciting and fun!

First off, we did our waste presentations to the school. To prepare for the presentations, we planned with our group members what we would say. Then, we practiced with our groups and in front of our class. We gave each other feedback to improve our work. In our presentations we talked about the 4 waste bins: refundables, organics, garbage and recycling. As a class, we made a target rubric and assessed ourselves on our presentation. 

Here are some quotes about our presentations:

- "I was nervous presenting to the 5/6 class." - J
- "It was pretty hard to remember all of my lines!" -D
- "It was challenging to make eye contact." - M
- "I was happy because I got to present to my last year's class!" -T
- "I felt anxious to be in front of a big class, but after I felt brave and proud!" -K

Secondly, we examined some waste bins in the school. We recorded data with a tally chart. Next week, we will turn the tallies into graphs. You would not believe what we found in the recycling bin in Room 17/18! There was a squished bun, dried bread and juice boxes! We noticed there were MANY items in the wrong bins! We hope our presentations and videos help to teach the school where they should put their waste.

Lastly, we celebrated Halloween! Some of us wore costumes, and enjoyed the popcorn snack! We did learning with pumpkins! We estimated and counted the number of seeds inside different pumpkins. Some strategies we used were putting the seeds into groups and skip counting by 5s or 10s, or counting by 1s.

Have a great weekend!

Love Room 13