I hope everyone had a refreshing, fun-filled, and loving Family Day, and extra long weekend. I loved hearing from all the students what exciting things they did with their families.
Math:
Today in math, students continued to learn about polygons. They remembered that for a shape to be a polygon, they needed to have all straight sides, and they need to be a closed shape. We finished our What is a Polygon chart, and moved on to the scavenger hunt. We went to the Learning Commons, where they explored the space, looking for triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and octagons. The students discovered that there were more quadrilaterals than the other shapes.
Writing - Mrs. Hordyk's and Mr. Mackenzie's classes:
Today in writing, the third, and final group, learned about similes and metaphors. They discovered that similes and metaphors make an unlikely comparison between two things. They filled out their organizers, and tomorrow, they will compose the similes and metaphors.
Writing - Mrs. Redd's and Mrs. Predika's classes:
The students continued to explore descriptive writing, by analyzing a text (Big Chickens Fly the Coop by Leslie Helakoski, illustrated by Henry Cole), and paying attention to how the author (and illustrator) shows, not tells, the story. The students rose to the challenge, and were able to identify how to show a character's emotions, rather than just tell it. We did a shared writing, where students made observations from the book illustrations to show, rather than tell.
Tell: The chickens were scared.
Show: The chickens' eyes were wide with fear, teeth chattering and clenched. They shivered as they hid in the coop.
Question of the Day:
Why are there so many quadrilaterals used in building construction?
Math:
Today in math, students continued to learn about polygons. They remembered that for a shape to be a polygon, they needed to have all straight sides, and they need to be a closed shape. We finished our What is a Polygon chart, and moved on to the scavenger hunt. We went to the Learning Commons, where they explored the space, looking for triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and octagons. The students discovered that there were more quadrilaterals than the other shapes.
Writing - Mrs. Hordyk's and Mr. Mackenzie's classes:
Today in writing, the third, and final group, learned about similes and metaphors. They discovered that similes and metaphors make an unlikely comparison between two things. They filled out their organizers, and tomorrow, they will compose the similes and metaphors.
Writing - Mrs. Redd's and Mrs. Predika's classes:
The students continued to explore descriptive writing, by analyzing a text (Big Chickens Fly the Coop by Leslie Helakoski, illustrated by Henry Cole), and paying attention to how the author (and illustrator) shows, not tells, the story. The students rose to the challenge, and were able to identify how to show a character's emotions, rather than just tell it. We did a shared writing, where students made observations from the book illustrations to show, rather than tell.
Tell: The chickens were scared.
Show: The chickens' eyes were wide with fear, teeth chattering and clenched. They shivered as they hid in the coop.
Question of the Day:
Why are there so many quadrilaterals used in building construction?