Class monitors

We are inquiring into responsibilities, so we have decided to have class monitors. 

Memory hands book

Making a small book, using our hand shape. We will record memories on here. 

9/26/2016 Grade 3 Who We Are Term 1

Homework:

Monday- Math (Rounding) and Reading/Writing on "Funny Bones"
Tuesday- Reading
Wednesday- Spelling Test and Reading
Thursday- Reading
Friday- Language, 2 digit Math with an explanation and Reading

9/26/2016 Grade 3 Who We Are Term 1 Week 5

Homework:

Monday- Math (Rounding) and Reading/Writing on "Funny Bones"
Tuesday- Reading and Math
Wednesday- Reading and Spelling Test
Thursday- Reading
Friday- Reading, Math and Cause and Effect

PMP

Today Kindergarten  practiced activities such as Cross Pattern Crawl, Jump forward, in and out. Students did an excellent job. At the end of PMP, some of them received treasure. Keep it up kindergarten! :)

9/23/2016 Who We Are Grade 3 Week 4

We made a connection between the Greek alphabet and the English one. We get our English alphabet from the Greeks but our alphabet has 26 letters and the Greek alphabet has 24. The first letter of the Greek alphabet is alpha and the last letter is omega. The children wrote their names in Greek and tried to guess who was who. Some of the names were easy to recognize.

The students did an experiment on displacement of water. They weighed plastic bears.

The children placed the bears one at a time in a graduated cylinder and measured how much the water level went up.

This experiment went along with our studies about the Archimedes Principle. 

Our budding scientists have been experimenting in robotics and as you can see they did a great job. We learned that tendons help move our hands and so the students wanted to see if we could automate a fake hand (prosthetic limb).

Grade 2 Term 1 Week 4 Who we are

This week was quite a short week, but we still managed to get a lot done. The children have been working hard on their communities projects. They successfully completed their PowerPoint presentations. For many of the children this was their first experience using PowerPoint, so we practiced inserting photos and text. The children then gave their presentations to the class.

The children then began working on their models of the types of houses where people from their chosen communities live. We will be ready to finish the models by Monday. They are coming along really well.

Finally, we continued to work on literacy and numeracy skills, In maths we have been working on addition of two and three digit numbers and in literacy we have worked on grammar and story telling.

 

Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni

We read the story, of Little Blue and Little Yellow. It's a story about friendship. But, it's much more that. We enjoyed the book and decided to make our own Little Blue, Little Yellow art work.

Grade 1 Week 4: Who We Are

 We had a short and busy week, but were able to accomplish a lot with the help of our new assistant teacher, Mrs. Lois. This week,   Grade 1 learned about the five food groups: grains, proteins, dairy, fruits, and vegetables. The class worked in teams to sort foods into the five groups and draw them on posters. 

The Five Food Groups

Maths

One to One Correspondence. 

Grade 4 - Week 4 - Who We Are - Writing Notebooks - Fixed vs Growth Mindsets

To help our writing skills, 4th Grade students have a writing notebook to keep track of what they need to do to be better writers.  So far, we have been using a thesaurus to throw out the "Dead (boring and overused) Verbs" and find more interesting and descriptive verbs.  We've also thought about the different types of adjectives there are to describe different things.  We just started putting together "good sentences" with a descriptive subject and a vivid verb, and later will make them into the "best sentences" by adding different action modifiers.  

Also, during our inquiry into success, challenge and failure, we have been thinking more deeply about fixed vs. growth mindsets and will soon begin to do our psychological case study on it.  Today, the students were analyzing questions from a Stanford University survey on "Intellectual Achievement Responsibility".  That test was created and administered to determine how much a student's own responsibility for their learning affects how well they do.  We discussed how the different responses showed a growth mindset or a fixed mindset.  Later, we will continue to develop our own questions that will be used to determine the mindsets of the individuals in our case study.  

Japanese Class

Learner Profile のため、5.6

年生がそれぞれの理解に基づいてイメージを

描いてくれました。言葉で説明するには難しいことでも

絵で表現することで、捉えやすくなります。