Room 14 & 15 Date Days

We've spent a lot of time the past two weeks collaborating, planning and creating! We're loving Date Days and we're seeing how wonderful these two classes are coming together! 

Happy Tuesday

This morning we started our monster glyph planning with Room 15. 

We talked about favourite Halloween things (costumes, candies) and matched them to body parts. (Tristan).

We then worked in groups to start our glyph sentences.

In the afternoon Room 15 joined us again for Chapter 5 of Edward Tulane. (Jack).

In this chapter, two brothers named Martin and Amos grabbed Edward and took off his silk clothing and began to toss him around.  (Vera).

I felt very sad when Edward was thrown overboard into the sea. (Taylor).

I imagined Edward would have felt petrified and panicked as he went into the water. (Sarah).

We designed a detailed illustration/scene from this chapter. (Lexie).

Friday Fun

This morning we started with smartie math. Mrs. Cantafio gave us smarties for the activity. We learned how to make pictographs and bar graphs. Pictographs are different from bar graphs because pictographs have pictures and bar graphs are just coloured. After smartie math, we had a google hangout with a class from the United States! We learned that they are from the state of Illinois and they have a lot of tornadoes there. We also learned that they have 400 kids in their school. We will see them every Friday because we will discussing about the book Edward Tulane. We're excited to start next week's chapters! 

Happy Thanksgiving! 

Room 14s Family Heritage Map

Today we learned about immigration into Canada. We mapped our family heritage locations on the world map. Many of our Room 14 families come from Scotland, Ireland and England. People come to Canada from all over the world! We are very lucky to live in Canada. Canada is a multicultural country which means there are many people from other cultures/countries that live here. #WeAreCanadian

Fairy Tales & Restaurants

Today we voted on our favourite wicked fairy tale characters. After we voted, we counted our total and created our own bar graphs. The Giant from Jack and the Beanstalk was the most popular in our classroom. In the afternoon, we started our restaurant menus! Some of us worked in partners and some of us worked independently. We are happy and excited to open our restaurants. We asked Mrs. Cantafio if we could make our own sandwiches one day. She told us if we do well on our assignments, we could talk about it. We're excited to be at school every single day. (Atok)! We're really excited to make our own restaurants (Jack). We're really excited to work on our readers theater plays. (Vera)

Healthy Food!

Today we learned about the four healthy food groups. First we talked about the four food groups and what belongs in each group. Then on the smart board, we sorted some foods into the proper groups. After sorting the foods, we packed a healthy lunch on the smart board. Our ending activity was a cut and sort healthy food group sheet. We worked very hard today!

Happy Dot Day!

Today we celebrated Dot Day! We read the story, "The Dot" by Peter Reynolds. We learned that "making our mark" means trying our best, believing in ourselves and putting our minds to our goals.

We used special colAR paper to make our own dots.  After we were done drawing, we put them on our classroom "WOW WALL" and scanned them using the app.

The dots came alive! They moved around like crazy!

To see "The Dot" come alive at home, download colAR from the app store and scan your paper!

Enjoy our dot art!


Also : Check out our RESPECT video we made today!
Check the post below for the video!

Love,
The Room 14 Monsters