This week in Div 9
We have had an extremely busy week preparing to have our guests in for Student Led interviews. It’s felt like a whirlwind and hard to remember exactly what we did! 🙂
The biggest change in our classroom has been our wriggly caterpillar friends transforming into their pupa mode, their chrysalis. We have been learning all about their amazing life cycle and about their adaptations that keep them safe in their environment. It’s been exciting to see their changes and we should be welcoming some butterflies very soon (maybe tomorrow, even?)
In math we have had a couple weeks of measurement and we are now revisiting place value in order to dig a little deeper into addition and subtraction before summer. We have also been doing estimation station and each day of the week were offered a new clue to get closer to the number of lolliops we had. Everyone did a really good job of adjusting their guesses as new clues came up. The secret number was….24! What will be our number next week?
We read Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox by Indigenous author Danielle Daniel and wrote a short poem on what animal we often feel like, adding a (kinda strange) self-portrait of ourselves dressed as that animal. We will be moving on to some non-fiction writing about animals in the next weeks.
On Friday we had tons of fun with an almost full day project based on the book If I Built A Car. We made blueprints of a brand new car design and then made models using all kinds of materials. SO MUCH FUN. Our class really shows their creativity and passion with activities like these, and they are perfect opportunities to talk about growth mindset, which continues to be an ongoing conversation.
Thank you all for coming to our student led conversations. I know the students were feeling a lot about it- nervous, excited, happy, proud…the works!
Take care and let’s hope the sun comes out this week!