Les fractions!

Here we are using connecting cubes to explore fractions! Next time your family orders a pizza, or shares a cake, ask your child about the fractions they see!

Les maisons de pionniers!

Yesterday we had the chance to show off all our hard work! We had 3 classes and Mrs. Gilfoyle come check out our pioneer homes!

Les maisons de pionniers!

Our class is a mess today with an assortment of creative materials that are being used to build our pioneer homes. We will have another block to work on them on Tuesday. Once everyone is finished we plan on having a gallery and inviting other classes to come view them! 

Qu'est-ce que c'est?

Another investigation! We are exploring old tools such as this old wash board and iron from my grandmother's home. Almost all of our students recognized them and are now trying to imagine how exactly they were used, by who and what types of tools/machines we use today for the same purposes! We are having some interesting small group discussions!

Qu'est-ce que c'est?

Today's social studies lesson consisted of an interesting investigation! I brought in this old tool and its pieces for our class to analyze and discuss. Though everyone is convinced it was used for making shoes, it took some creative thinking in how exactly it was used and with what materials. It made for some exciting discussions!

Les mosaïques

As a geometry activity, we are creating les mosaïques. We had to ensure that our mosaïque included:

- des figures avec des côtés droits

- des figures qui sont congruentes à d'autres

- des figures avec UN axe de symétrie

- et presque toute la feuille doit être couverte de figures

La toile

As a social studies inquiry on the pioneer lifestyle, we analyzed these photos brought in by one of our students. We examined the photos of her distant relatives and tried to imagine various aspects of their lives. Some students thought that they made their own clothes, were farmers or guessed the years they were born. After sharing our ideas, I read to them the information that was passed onto me about the couple. Some of our guesses were right! We later made this web to demonstrate our thinking. If you have any photos or old objects from the pioneer times and would like to share them with our class please do!

Les axes de symétrie

In today's math assignment we explored different ways of identifying les axes de symétrie. We traced and cut out shapes and used folding creases as well as miras. Ask your child about shapes in your home and if they see any axes de symétrie or how they could find out for sure if there is one!

Les pionniers

As a pioneer inquiry project, our class came up with some good questions we wanted to know more about. We used the iPads to research and organized what we thought and discovered on chart paper. We later had a promenade de gallerie where we shared our thoughts on each other's research.

Symétrie

We have been exploring shapes with les axes de symétrie. Here, we drew half of a decorated Oeuf de Pâques and used the miras to complete the other side.

L'aire

This is an older picture from one of our measurement activities at the end of February. Students had to create shapes using square tiles and their friends had to calculate l'aire. The shapes were creative because they were trying to stump each other!

La périmètre

Yesterday we took math outside and measured the périmètre of a fort our students built during recess. Some of our students went on to measure the basketball court which was quite an endeavour!

Projets de Google Earth

Recently, our class has been learning about cities around Canada using Google Earth on the iPads. They investigated the location, population, entertainment, employment, industries and what food was accessible. In their small groups, they presented this information and spoke to the pictures they collected on the Smartboard in addition to their chart paper notes and drawings. Today was our final day of presentations and it was followed by a Promenade de galerie where students were able to reflect on their work and comment on the work of their peers. Bravo les amis!!

Ask your child which city they studied and why they would want to live/visit there!

Premièrement, nous estimons!

Here are some of the girls using a metre wheel to measure the length of the hallway. We are trying to make close estimations before we measure but this one sure was tricky!

On mesure!

Today during math centres, we participated in different measurement activities. Here are some of the girls having fun throwing paper airplanes and measuring the distance of their flight.

Mesurer!

As a measurement activity, we used yarn to measure the length of our "pas de géants". We chose books of different sizes and estimated how many would fit in our "pas de géants". Many of our estimations were very close! Next we estimated the length compared to a metre stick and then measured it exactly.

Ask your child what measurement (mm, cm, m, or km) they would use to measure various things in your home or when you're out in the community to get them thinking!   

Les communautés

Today our students are creating their own communities. They made sure they included les zones résidentielles, industrielles et commerciales.