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Unit of Inquiry: We continued to build and expand our city! We built a train station, subway station, roads, parking lot, airport, school, hotel, mall, bank, hospital, and more!
Mathematics: Students were introduced fractions. We watched videos and learned about whole and parts. We discussed equal, unequal, and halves.
We also took our class photo for the year book.
We made cards for our teachers for Teacher's day!
Mathematics: Students were introduced fractions. We watched videos and learned about whole and parts. We discussed equal, unequal, and halves.
We also took our class photo for the year book.
We made cards for our teachers for Teacher's day!
This week, we practiced verbs through various activities, such as playing charades. Students started to work on their independent narratives. After talking about how stories can be shared, students went in groups to write a script for their puppet show. A group of MYP (secondary) students came in to do some activities with the students about directions and maps. We also discussed further with directions (left, right, forward, backwards), as well as North, South, East, and West through an obstacle course. Students were in groups and had to help each other get through the obstacle course when one of them is blindfolded.
Field trip to Kruja
100th Day of School: Students brought in 100 items of something. We did various activities with them, such as grouping them in tens and in fives. Students then made a bag of trail mix with crackers, pretzels, dried fruit, and M&M's. We managed to have 100 in our trail mix!
Students looked at pictures from different cities and put them in order from past to present and created a timeline. Students then wrote captions for the photos describing how the places have changed. Students also reflected on our trip to Kruja. Students looked at pictures and wrote down captions for them.
We celebrated Valentine's day with a few activities.
Unit of Inquiry: Students work on their first settlement, back in the stone age. Students discussed what people had in the past and what they needed to survive.
Students continued to work on writing their stories in their group. Students are going through the writing process- brainstorm, draft, revise, edit, and publish.
3D Shapes: Students created posters on 3D shapes, identifying their sides, edges, and vertices.
Chinese New Year Celebration: The 7th graders came to the classroom and shared their knowledge about Chinese New Year and taught the students a few Chinese New Year crafts. On Chinese New Year day, we also sang some songs and learned how to say congratulations and Happy Chinese New Year. The students were very excited!
Unit of Inquiry: Students had a pre-assessment where they had to sort pictures into past and present times. Students also researched and created posters about the different landforms and shared it with the class. Students then started to create the landforms for our class settlement using various materials. We also did an experiment where we tested which materials could hold water- cardboard, paper, playdoh, or plastic. We found out that only plastic could hold water. So we used plastic to create our river for our settlement.
Students practiced sorting 3D shape pictures and identified six different 3D shapes- sphere, cylinder, cube, cone, pyramid, and rectangular prism.
After discussing the transdisciplinary theme, Where We Are in Place and Time, students explored the books and discussed what they read. Students inquired into maps through looking at a real map and Google maps. Students chose a landform (beach, grassland, river, pond, ocean/sea, lake, valley, mountains) to research using books and tablet. Students researched what it is, as well as what the good and bad things were if people lived there.
Students practiced their addition or subtraction skills through a game of "Five in a Row."
Students practiced the long-i sounds (/igh/ and /ie/) through games.
Student-led Conferences: Thank you for coming! It was a great way for your child to show how they have progressed so far.
Students chose the different games or activities they wanted to show you during the student-led conference. Students practiced and worked very hard to prepare for the conference. They are very excited.
Unit of Inquiry: Ms. Gillian shared her knowledge with the class on using patterns through movement. The students had a wonderful time learning to use their bodies to create patterns. Students also started their summative assessment. Students used tablets and books to research their topic they chose with a pattern. Students found facts about their topics, such as why it has a pattern, and where they are found.
Literacy: Students have learned a few different types of poems- Acrostic, Shape, Repeating, Haiku, and Cinquain. In groups, students started to create a poetry book with the different types of poems. Students began with planning, writing a draft, and will edit and publish it next week.
Mathematics: Students continued to practice and learn about 2D shapes. Students learned the vocabulary slide, flip, and turn- movements of the shapes. Through activities and games, students continued to practice identifying the 2D shapes and composing shapes.
Students went on a scavenger hunt around school and home to find natural and man-made patterns! After looking at books and reviewing what we learned, we created a list of all the natural and man-made patterns we know. Students then picked a natural pattern they were interested in learning and created questions to research. Students went to the computer lab to create the pattern of the topic they chose.
Math centers: Students practiced identifying the number of sides and vertices of 2D shapes. Students also tried to compose and decompose shapes, used their creativity to create something out of shapes, and practiced identifying the 2D shapes.
We integrated our literacy (reading and writing) and mathematics into our unit of inquiry on patterns. Students identified and created different types of patterns, specifically repeating patterns, growing and shrinking patterns, symmetry, and spirals. Students created a Christmas tree with growing patterns. Students drew their faces for their "I Am" poem and made snowflakes while learning about symmetry. Students also practiced making repeating patterns with pattern blocks and paper chains. Students also drew and painted a snow globe, where they added some patterns. They will write a poem about their snow globe next week.
We had an expert come into our classroom to share her knowledge about fingerprint patterns and how she uses the patterns to solve problems. Students learned that fingerprints could be an arch, a loop, or a whorl. Students enjoyed learning and appreciating our fingerprints!
We had an expert come into our classroom to share her knowledge about fingerprint patterns and how she uses the patterns to solve problems. Students learned that fingerprints could be an arch, a loop, or a whorl. Students enjoyed learning and appreciating our fingerprints!
Students used various objects to create patterns. Students traced their patterns and discussed how it was a pattern. Students looked at pictures and wrote down what they see, what they think it is, and how it made them feel. The class discussed and sorted the pattern pictures into natural patterns and patterns that we create. In groups, students created a pattern with their bodies and the class had to guess what the pattern is.
Students explored what shapes are. In groups, students created a shape using craft sticks and identified the number of sides and vertices each shape has.
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