This morning we started to draw pictures of what we think our brains look like. We had to draw pictures of what we see or how we think our brain works. Then we had to write sentences explaining our brains. We will continue to work on this writing tomorrow and share our brains with each other tomorrow.
We continued to work on our Picasso art projects. Today we added thick black lines and background colours to make our faces pop! Thank you to those students who completed Picasso artwork at home or found interesting facts about Picasso! We are super impressed with the future artists we have in both rooms!
In novel study today we met Ruby, the baby elephant. She was very quiet and scared to come to Big Top Mall. Stella had to coax her out of a truck and get her into the domain. We learned that Ruby had been born in the wild and then sold to a circus after her entire family was killed. We talked about our feelings around this happening to Ruby and what we could do to help animals.
This afternoon in math we continued our work around measurement. We revisited our discussion about how Ivan's domain is 40 feet by 40 feet. We each had to share an object we had chosen in the classroom that we thought showed 1 foot. Ms. Binks was very surprised that no one chose to use their own foot! We traced some of our feet, Ms. Binks's foot and Mr. Sadowsky's foot to show how different they could be. We talked about how this was using non-standard units of measurement because the unit kept changing. We talked about how we needed to change feet to cm in order to use standard units of measurement. Mr. Fisher told us how there are 30.48 cm in one foot. Tomorrow we will be creating our own square feet and placing them together to see how large Ivan's domain actually is.
We had buddies today only this time it was with our friends in grades 5 and 6. Some of us read while another group of us made cards or pictures for the students who were hurt in the hit and run. It was very heartwarming to see the caring messages and bright and colourful pictures that were made. Our cards and pictures will be passed on to the family.
Reminders:
- Spelling test is tomorrow
- Please bring home reading sheets tomorrow for marbles
- It is Ms. Binks's last day as our teacher tomorrow. Ms. Zimmerman starts on Monday.
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