Sunday, March 18, 2012

Lucky Charms 2012

Our third on line project was once again hosted by Jennifer Wagner. As a GROUP -- we will be trying to prove that there are more GREEN CLOVERS (you might call them hats) than any other shape in a box of Lucky Charms. Students were each given a baggie of Lucky Charms. Their job was to sort the marshmallow charm shapes into the following categories: Pots of Gold, Clovers (hats), Horseshoes, Stars, Moons, Rainbows, Hearts, and balloons. Once sorted, students were asked to count their shapes using tallies. This data was then displayed in two different types of graphs. Students created a bar graph using paper and pencil crayons, then using this same data, they created  a bar graph electronically on the website "Create a Graph". We also tabulated all of the students data into a classroom data bank. The classroom totals were submitted to Jennifer. Wow, not only did the students have fun, but we sure did a lot of math too. Check out our slide show. Thank you to our Grade Five helpers, Jackson, Erica, Brianna, Emily, and Jalen. Just a note to parents, the gold is fake, the leprechaun pipe was cleaned between pictures, and all pictures were taken in good fun!!





Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Busy Month....

The activities continued as 'I Love to Read" month wound down. We enjoyed milk and cookies with our librarian Mrs. Perchuk, who also ran another very successful Scholastic Book Fair! We also had a special guest reader via a Skype conference call. Miss Leah Dewhurst, Reading Specialist with the Prairie Valley School Division in Regina Saskatchewan, read to us the book "The Cheese" by Margie Palatini. To finish "I Love To Read Month, we partnered up with Mrs. Potten's Grade four class for a session of "Read to Someone." All in all the month was full of fun and exciting reading activities.



These are two videos of our Skype call with Miss Dewhurst. Video was shot with my iPhone 4s in our rather dark classroom. Thanks so much Miss Dewhurst for Skyping in as our guest reader!!!