Hello, 5B families!
Today in Language Arts our students did a “Five Senses Visualization”, which was a series of open-ended questions inspiring them to imagine what they might experience on Christmas Day. We shared ideas, and I modelled how to organize thinking using a “Five Senses Mindmap”. We discussed how to transform simple descriptions into richer descriptive language. (For example, “I see mistletoe” might become “The freshly plucked mistletoe hangs in the doorway, its green leaves frosted and white berries glistening.”)
BUT WHY CHRISTMAS?!
Well, tomorrow’s challenge is for students to show what they learned exploring when they explore a more timely theme: Halloween. They will independently create their own mindmaps about what they imagine they might see, hear, taste, touch and smell on October 31st. These mindmaps will inspire Halloween poetry writing later in the week.
In Science class, we continued our focus on the five senses with an inquiry into the properties of lemons. Students were encouraged to discuss and compare their findings and record their sense data again on a mindmap template. We sure had some giggles making sour faces!
In Math, we are focusing this week on the skill of rounding! Although we started with a review of basic rounding to the tens place, we soared up to rounding into the ten thousands with some bonus questions today.
We practiced with a simple dice rolling game using a rounding chart. The tutorial videos below may help reinforce learning at home. (Tomorrow we focus on rounding to the hundreds place.)
In Career Ed., we took some time to discuss and reflect upon our learning with a mid-term self-assessment sheet on work habits, study skills, communication, social interactions, and achievement. Students brought home their reflection sheets to share with their parents/guardians today.
Tiffany Poirier 