Story Workshop

We started something new this week to help us learn about creating stories. Story Workshop!

"A story workshop you can make books and tell a story- you can imagination something." -I
"You can even make a story with toys. You think for a minute before you start." B
"You can use anything for stories." A
"In every story there is only problem." H
"We can use anything to make places." A
"We can use WHO, WHAT, and WHERE in our stories. Who is in our story, what is in our story and where is our story at." K
"Who- is your person, What- is what's happening, and then Where- is where your story is." H

 

"We were in the space ship and we saw some Aliens and we started to fight them." A
"When we defeated the aliens we were pretending we were going back to the world but our spaceship didn't have that much gas..." D

Remembrance Day

This week, room 6 discussed, reflected, and created art and writing to share their understanding of Remembrance Day. 

 

"Remembrance Day means soldiers died." I
"Its all about the soldiers who died." B
"When they died they got buried and the poppies between the grave yard got rows." A
"Some of the soldiers were buried and some are veterans." H

 

Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen

This week we learned about something we didn't know plants need. They need AIR (carbon dioxide).

"You got to breathe oxygen and you give the dirty ones to the plants and they give you the clean ones." I
"The plants make sugar and give us oxygen" B
"If you are cutting all of the trees and you don't have any plants you can die because plants help people to breath." T
"Whenever you breathe out, you are breathing out carbon dioxide and when the plants get the carbon dioxide they breathe it in and breathe out and give us oxygen." H
"When you breathe carbon dioxide to the plants, they give you oxygen" A
"They make sugar with sun and carbon dioxide and water." M

Number Lines!

This week we have a new learning intention for math:

We are learning to REPRESENT numbers in different ways.

The first way we learned about was number lines.

We all got different numbers and we made them by counting by 1's to 20. -K

We were making the number line in order. -A

We were trying to use the number line to help us skip count. - H



We learned how to make, and how to use number lines to represent numbers and the numbers around them.

We were skipping some numbers and circling the one we stop on. -A
We were choosing which number we want, and Mrs. Downing helps us to understand how it goes.-B
The teacher tells us which number to find and we have to circle it- H
You gotta count the number first, and you can do it. -T
Make little arrows at the end, it shows it never ends- R
You need tick marks.- E
We use the tick marks to go back and forward to show which number. - C
The numbers need some space- B

What Do Plants Need?

In Science, we are beginning to learn about the needs of plants and animals. We will be connecting this learning to our big inquiry question of "How Do We Co-Exist?" by looking at what people need from plants and animals and how we also help plants and animals with what they need. 

This week, we learned about what people use plants for:
We use plants for water- A
Sunscreen- M
Vitamins- A
Tea- B
Use them to help a nose bleed- K
To check the weather- R
Rub it on cuts and makes it go away- C


We started working on a big project that will SHOW what plants need:

Plants need rain to make it grow- K
Plants need roots- H
Plants need soil- B
I made the rain- E
We used paper to make roots- D
Why they need sun and water because it helps the plant to grow up. -T
The sun shines to the rain- I
Sun makes the plant grow- A

Skip Counting

After learning about patterns, Room 6 wondered: What patterns can we see in numbers?

"We were counting." J
"Everytime you look at the different numbers, you see one adding one. plus one, plus one." D
"Whenever you see the numbers it gets bigger and bigger." B
"For one, if you add one more to it, its going to be 2." H

We worked collaboratively to identify different patters using 10 frames. 

"We were seeing if they were getting bigger and bigger. And they actually were." A

"Everytime you looked at them, you always see it plussing 5."K

"First it started off easy, but the numbers got bigger and bigger and it got harder." D

"The number chart there is only a half way done, but the next one is all the way done." H

 

What patterns did we notice when we started recording the numerals to go with the 10 frames?
"You start counting, and then it turns into a row, then you could just copy the numbers down." M
"It gave me an idea to not look, but the numbers gave me a plan." B
"If you get higher and higher, it gets harder and harder" C
"We get to 100." I

How do we co-exist?

This week we thought about the question "What is something that you can't do alone?"It was really hard to think of something that NO ONE could do alone. 
"You can't build a big giant house by yourself" A

Mrs. Downing gave us a challenge to push the ball with our feet- we couldn't use hands- the ball has to be on the wall when you push it, not the floor.
"We pushed the ball to the sides, helping each other." D
"We had to work together" B
"It was hard but lots of people helped out." I
"If each of us help together, the ball is not going to fall" T

 






We noticed..
"If we worked together the ball would push up and back against the wall" E
"The ball fell down when no people were helping- only one person was trying thats why it fell down" B

 

How can we build 3D shapes?

This week we went around the school for Trekking Tuesday and we were looking for 3D Shapes.
-a 2D shape is flat so you can't really hold it, but a 3D shape is you can hold it. H.
-some 2D shapes are flat, all the 3D shapes are not flat.

We found many shapes such as: Cylinders, Rectangular prisms, even a sphere.

 

Next we tried building 3D shapes with sticks and marshmallows.
-I made a rectangular prism. E
-I made a cube. B
-It was hard keeping them standing. K.
-It was bending. A
-It was hard for me to make a cube. Al