G2/3 Perform 'The Tenses' Song

This week, G2/3 students have been learning about the tenses. Together, they brainstormed performance ideas and decided how they were going to perform 'The Tenses' song. During the following lesson, they had their final practice and then performed to Miss Tatiana's groups.

The children showed a great deal of confidence and were willing to take risks by performing in front of their peers. They did extremely well and the audiences listened carefully and enjoyed the performances.

If you would like to listen to and watch the original song, then please follow this link: The Tenses Song

G2/3 students watching their own performances. 

Unfortunately, the videos of the performances are too large to include in this blog post, but feel free to drop me an email and I can share them with you through Gmail.

G4/5 Nelson Mandela

In their unit of inquiry, G4/5 students have been learning about famous world leaders. During EAL, they researched Nelson Mandela, created time-lines for his life and then presented their information orally to their peers.

Having discussed the language needs for biographies, they are now creating a rubric for how to write a good biography, which they will use next week to evaluate their own biographies. 

Fun with Acrostic Poems

This week, Grade 2/3 had such good fun writing acrostic poems about different forms of artistic expression, that the Grade 4/5 students decided to write some as well! 

We used the following website to plan and write our group poems, before working independently, using different words linked to our UOI: 
 http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/acrostic/

G2/3's impressions of painting

G2/3 think about the work of n artist

G4/5 on what it takes to be a good school principal

More thoughts from G4/5 on how to be a good school principal

Grade 2/3 Habitats and information booklets

This week we wrote our own information booklets using our ideas from our inquiries about animals and their habitats and our knowledge of informative writing. We looked at the structure of information texts and non-fiction books to help us structure our booklets and decided to include contents pages and glossaries to help our readers.

We included diagrams to make the information clear and interesting to look at.

We used coloured writing for the words that we explained in our glossaries.

We also had some fun creating habitats online at the following website: http://mrnussbaum.com/habitats/

G4/5 Energy Research

This week we have researched different kinds of non-renewable energy, looking at where they come from and how they work. We highlighted the strategies we used to identify the meanings of new words while we worked.

We have also found out about some of the positive and negative aspects of our chosen type of energy.

Grade 2/3 The Becrog.

We have discovered a new species!

The Becrog lives in the wetlands of Canada

Here is some information we wrote about it:

Grade 4/5 Focus on Energy

The Central Idea for the current Grade 4/5 Unit of Inquiry is: Energy exists in different forms. Students have looked at a variety of things, but they particularly enjoyed finding out about the different types of energy and making posters to explain them:

 Here are some of their posters: