We began the day working on a Math sheet on representing numbers in standard and expanded form. 200+50+3 or 427 = 4 hundreds +2 tens +7 ones. talking about 6 different polar peoples, the Nenets, the Lapps of Norway, the Inuit of N.A., the Yakut, the Polar Eskimo, and the Chuckchi. The students then picked two of the 6 and did one page reports on two of them.
After recess the students read silently for 25 minutes then we did an exercise on writing the same event from different perspectives. The single-character perspective is the most common viewpoint used in children’s literature because it is much easier for the reader to identify with just one character. In order to get a broader understanding it is good to explore "point of view" in literature. We need to explore the different perspectives from which a story may be told. So we drew a picture and told the same event through the eyes of three different characters, A knight, a dragon and a mouse. We started with the human perspective of seeing a dragon coming toward the castle. The students had to in point form list 10 words to go with the way the character felt, saw, heard etc. After 7 minutes I introduced the idea that they were the dragon and they had to repeat the process from the dragon's perspective. Lastly they had to view the scene from the perspective of a mouse.
After lunch the gym was being set up for our Pink Day No Bullying day assembly so we played games in the class. The first game involved the students playing rock paper scissors with every other student in the class and keeping score.
We had not finished when we were called down for the Anti Bullying Assembly.
The assembly was great and I hope the students learn from the acceptance talks and images. See you all tomorrow. Mr. W
