This morning, we started with Peer Assessments of the Canadian Artist posters. Each student completed a peer assessment sheet for four of their classmates's work; these will be part of the marks for this project. More importantly, the intent of this approach is to encourage students to really look at other's work: what they like, what is well done, what could be improved upon, etc. This will hopefully give them ideas for their own projects in the future.
We started new math drills today, establishing a baseline for division facts (Example: 64 = 8 X __).
Students will be creating bar graphs to record their results over the next several weeks. Also in math we reviewed the 'long division made easy' method; just two problems were assigned for tomorrow.
Mrs. Strange came in today and started the kids on a class project for the Earth Day contest. They had to create grids and then enlarge pictures (parts only) onto a sheet of watercolour paper. Thursday we will be colouring them, then putting them together to see what larger image they create. It will be fun to see!
Speaking of art, the clay salmon spawners are drying nicely on the back shelf in our classroom.
In P.E., we played volleyball again and actually made some serves and had the odd volley:)
Finally, this afternoon, we coloured a Union Jack flag and watched a short video about Scott-Irish and their immigration to North America. We didn't get to adding the words to our lap books yet because of a shortage of time.
Book exchange, Agendas, and some reading time took up the rest of our day.
