A measuring we will go....

It is so important that the students see what they are learning in school, as skills that they will use in real life.  To bring this point home, the measuring unit that they worked on for the last few weeks was  a competition, one in which pairs of students blew, flicked tossed and kicked a 'puff' ball.  

They pairs of students then measured the distance that the puff ball travelled in three different ways.  

They used a measuring tape, which was divided into centimetres,

they measured with their handprints and they measured with unified cubes.

They learned how to record these measurements and are working on some follow-up activities to solidify their thinking.

The Grade Four classes led the entire school in the Living Rosary last week.

It is so difficult to get pictures in the dark...

but these two darlings volunteered to help me get at least one photo where you can see the kiddos' faces.

This morning the students walked into a changed classroom.

It wasn't a classroom at all!  It was the Retell Restaurant, an idea shared

by Christine DeCarbo/  It was the perfect way to end our Robert Munsch unit.

The students focused on the setting, characters, problem, three important events and the ending of the stories.

The appetizer was a set of three short passages, in which the students 

used colours to show those elements found in that story.

I was so impressed with their focus and determination to 'show what they know.'

The main course was a challenge to draw the elements and write about each, for some newly introduced Robert Munsch stories.  The hope was that each student would try to choose stories that they had never read before.

Look at that looonnng word at the top of this page.  It is difficult to say, but it means

the process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.

Robert Munsch stories are famous for having tons of these words.

We listened and searched and listed ones during our story time.  The students took cards and then created their idea of what those words should look like....so the word "yuck' might have goo dripping from it, and the word 'WAAAA!' might be covered with tears.  Great job kiddos!