Happy Holidays from Room 13! We hope you have a great 2 weeks off of school! Here are some pictures of what we did today. We learned about Miss MacLeod's family traditions, which are called Christmas crackers. We had a fantastic Pajama Day! See you in 2018!
We finally had a 5-day week of school! Here is an update of what we did this week.
First, we started learning about Ukraine! We began by watching our classmates presentations about Ukraine. Then, we watched a few videos about Ukrainian celebrations, and we read a Ukrainian folktale called, "The Mitten." In the story, there is a little boy named Nicki who looses his snow white mitten. Many different animals such as a bunny, mole, porcupine, bear, fox, mouse, badger and owl go inside of his mitten! Next week, we will be doing an art activity where we make psyanky eggs!
Secondly, we made ugly Christmas sweaters with our grade 5/6 buddies. We decorated paper sweaters using glitter, ribbon, bells, pompoms, stickers and more! Here are some pictures of our creations!
Lastly, we did some Christmas caroling in our class! Next week, our whole school is going to do caroling together! Also, next Thursday is pajama day! Our class is visiting the Christmas store on Monday morning.
Hello Everyone! We had a fabulous and short week in Room 13! We had a lot of students away this week! We hope everyone is feel healthy and is back to school on Monday. First, we started a new unit in science. We are working as junior engineers! Engineers plan, make blueprints, follow instructions, find and solve problems, work as a team, build and more! This week, we were given our first engineering challenge. We had to create a new popcorn bag for Cineplex Theatre. Our first step, was to plan and discuss our design. Then, we built prototypes. Next, we gave each other feedback. Finally, we tested the popcorn bags!
Here are pictures of our process and our final designs! The winners were the Pop-Tanic (ship shaped popcorn bag)! Finally, we started instructional writing by teaching others how to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches! Have a great long weekend! Love Room 13
First, we have been learning about quality of life. Quality of life explains a person's feelings of health, safety, security, comfort and happiness. We read a book about a boy and his father who lived in an airport. The book was called, "Fly Away Home." Here is a video of the book. We discussed how their quality of life was good because they had food, water, family, friends and shelter. But, their quality of life could have been better if they had a home and beds to sleep in. We are now talking about the quality of life in different places around the world.
Next, we continued to work on our self portraits. First, we practiced rough drafts in our visual journals. Then, we drew good copies on white paper. After, we outlined our pictures using Sharpies. Finally, we painted using water colours! Stay tuned to see our final products!
Lastly, we watched our classmate's presentation about Peru! Here are some facts we have learned.
- "They make mats and clothing from llama and alpaca fur!" -D
- "They eat guinea pigs!!!!" - G
- "In the country, they trade items at a market." -A
- "Peru is called the potato country because they have so many potatoes!' - T
- "Some people live on the farms and some live in the city." -O
- "Some Peruvians live in the mountains." -D
