Igloo's, wolves in sheeps clothing, Hobbits and Peter Pan

Notices: 

New Piscies forms went home.  This is a great opportunity for children to have a sports and a musical experience.  The musical African Drumming will be taught which will lead to a large performance.

New scholastic forms went home today

Thank you for those that sent in the Gorge Burnside after school forms.

The reward for the lost eraser has jumped to $17

 We began the day with a continuation of the Igloo designing we started at the end of the day yesterday.  Today I let them finish their design as they thought it should be built.  We then talked about and examined how the blocks are fitted and tapered to build the igloo with a cap piece of ice to finish the ingenious structure off.

The way people think an Igloo is constructed

The way an Igloo is actually constructed

This was followed by math where we looked the type of questions the students were going to face on the FSA testing.  The test deals with math basics in an applied form.  This type of question involves problem solving, planning and understanding as well as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.  The simple question. Using Canadian coins, how many ways can you make exactly 26¢.  An understanding of Canadian coins and their values is the basic knowledge.  How to combine this knowledge and create all the various combinations of coins is the test.  A combination of Dime Dime Nickle Penny = Penny Nickle Dime Dime.  It was interesting watching all the various approaches the students used to correctly solve the problem.

After recess we began with reading then carried on with our telling and a retelling of the Aesop's Fables. Today's fable was "The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" with the moral "things are not always what they seem."  I began by showing the students the picture and having them guess what they thought was happening.  What things belong in the picture?  What things do not belong in the picture? 

After Lunch the students went to choir.  Those students not in choir listened to and did a one page report on Conway Twitty.  One of the students suggested this musician and brought in the CD for us to study and enjoy/.  Thanks A.

We finished the afternoon by finishing off the Hobbit and beginning a new novel Peter Pan.  We consulted about how we liked the last two lines of the Hobbit and then consulted about the first line of Peter Pan.  Comparing both for suspense and interest.  The students made some very good observations and lots of good vocabulary was discusses. 

Last line of the Hobbit

"The evening was closing in, and the cloaked figure (Gandalf) quickly vanished into the twilight.  The hobbit did not see him again for a long time."

First line of Peter Pan

"Everyone, except for one person, has to grow up."