Wednesday 18 March 2015

March Blog!

This morning, after reading a Robert Munsch book in French, we made desserts out of modelling clay. Tomorrow we will write about them.

We have been working on a French book, kind of like the Marvelous Me project we did, but in French. Two of the paragraphs that we wrote, we aren't allowed to say 'I' or 'we' and we had to convince people to like the subject. This is called persuasive writing. We also wrote a paragraph about an animal.

A few days ago we started on a projects with the iPads. Mme picked groups for us and we have special countries to research information. We will use Keynote to present our projects when we are done.

We learned about China. We celebrated Chinese New Year and we got an envelope with chocolate money in it. We also got to try a snack from China, dried melon with sugar. We learned about the folktale that told about the 4 dragons becoming the 4 rivers. We learned how to use chop sticks. We used the iPads to research information about China and present it to the class. Mme taught us how to say words and numbers in Mandarin, we also practiced writing characters. Mme O. brought in some statues from China and money from Asia. The statues from China are from the terracotta army.

In math, Mme has been playing a game to help us learn our multiplication faster. We learned division.  In math class we have been learning compatibles to 100. We've been studying how you can make shapes with number patterns. We had to make shapes into patterns. We learned repeating, increasing and decreasing patterns.

We read books to our book buddies. We had a list of questions and we interviewed our book buddies. Then we wrote a paragraph about our book buddies. We learned about poems and the words that rhymed were in a pattern.

We made an art project where we had to design a bridge using paper. We played badminton in the gym.

We went to the symphony. The cool part was that we got to sing along and we learned the song The Waving Flag. We wrote in our journals about the symphony. Choir students went to a church to sing in the Choir Festival. They sang Jim Along Josie and L'Oranger. The choir won silver!

-By the students of room102