Week of April 22nd

 


This week in Math, we have started our money unit. In this unit we will learn how to count money, including coins and bills. We will learn the relationships among coins, including the penny. Although the penny is no longer used in Canada, the value of the penny as one cent is still important as the base value of all the other coins. We will count money amounts involving coins starting with the larger value, and we will learn to represent money amounts using the least number of coins. Once we have familiarized ourselves with coins we will learn how to make change by counting to the nearest multiple of ten and then counting up to the nearest dollar. 




In literacy, we had lots of fun using the short wordless animation film "Snack Attack" to create our short stories. The video tells the story of an old lady and her intention to eat some snacks (cookies). The short movie touch on a sequence of quite compelling themes:

  • Understanding elderly people.

  • Judging someone based on their appearance.

  • Looking and stereotyping them and learning to share.

 

This wonderful film helped us use the characters' facial and body expressions to learn how to demonstrate in writing a character's emotion without "telling" the audience how a character is feeling. This week we will be using our writing to work to peer edit. Peer editing is the process of having a peer read and edit a piece of writing, highlighting errors or ways to improve it. These errors may include misspellings, grammar mistakes and clarity issues. Our students are excited to share with you their stories during our student celebration on May the 16th.





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