Geometry, Animal Habitats, and a Guest Speaker

Reminder: Please return your Comfort Kit and Skating Forms.

 

 

Skating: We still need 1 or 2 more adult volunteers to walk with us and help tie skates on Dec. 2.

With Mrs. Schneider this week, our class started a Geometry unit in Math. We started with 2D shapes, learning vocabulary like parallelogram, rhombus, trapezoid, and vertices (corners).

Warm-Up Game: Describe 2 shapes that have something in common (ex. These 2 shapes have 4 sides and 4 vertices)
and have your partner guess which shapes you are thinking of.

This unit is a lot of fun with hands-on activities. Next week we'll learn how to make 2D shapes into 3D solids, and learn their names too. This unit builds upon previous knowledge but also challenges students to learn more specific names, like identifying different kinds of triangles (2D) and prisms (3D).

Tangram puzzles

We are also finishing our Habitats Unit in Science.

This morning Leslie McGarry came to share First Nations legends about animals. She is a wonderful storyteller and also brought interesting items with animals on them, like a chief's copper, a button blanket, and a mask. Her grandfather carved some of the totem poles in Thunderbird Park, beside the Royal BC Museum. Our class was enthralled with her legends and got to participate in acting out some of them with her.


Leslie McGarry from the Native Friendship Center came to share animal legends with us. Here is the class acting out a bear legend.

To finish our Habitats Unit, students chose an animal and started an art project on that animal. We will finish them next week.