Hello!
Another short week gone by as Friday is a Pro D day. We had our jump rope for heart today, if you were raising money, bring it in asap.
In math this week, we continued working with thousandth decimals and ordering decimals. We will be working on adding decimals next week, which will reinforce the use of using place values for decimals.
In language arts, we finished off our novel study, collected phrases from our books, and created some poetry to reflect the residential school experience. Next week we will share our work with the class.
In science, we continued working on coding using the chrome books. Some of the students have really gotten a handle on it, and have started making games and creative art using computer programs.
In social studies, we continued to learn about different types of government. Each day this week we practiced what it would be like living in a different government. Monday was direct democracy, where everyone voted on everything: washroom breaks, water breaks, subjects, which materials to use,, ect. It ended up taking a lot of extra time, and was not very productive. Tuesday we practiced a dictatorship government, with very strict rules and punishments: no talking, no breaks, always sitting, must be on task. Each time they broke a rule, they earned an X, and each X was worth 2 minutes at lunch time (jail). Though you could try and bribe the dictator with points to remove some Xs. It was actually a very productive day, though many students were not having fun… Wednesday was indirect democracy, where the students voted for representatives to make rules for them. Not sure whether the students just didn’t like being told specific rules, or the representatives became a little too power hungry, but by lunch there was a new vote, and new representatives. Thursday was oligarchy, where the boys ruled the morning, the girls ruled the midday, and those with the top quiz mark ruled the afternoon. The boys were rather lenient, and only gave themselves a couple of benefits over the girls. The girls however were quite power hungry and full of vengence, making a lot more rules that targeted the boys. At lunch, the top quiz mark students created a couple of rules involving taxes. Overall, the students learned that they like being the ones that have power, and really dislike being the ones without power.
In art, we finished off our doors! We also worked more on our 3D landscape artwork.
Next week we will be adding decimals in math, working on a reading and writing assessment for language arts, complete a requiz on types of government, and start looking into our election system in social studies, and start our unit on the rock cycle for science.
Monday is our field trip to the museum and beacon hill park! The bus leaves at 9am.
Have a good long weekend!
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