WATCH OUR RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS SHOW HERE
For our last unit of inquiry, we teamed up with Mrs. Guillemette to work on 'Getting Along' in PE. It is always great when our specialist teachers can integrate our Units of Inquiry into their teaching. I have attached a link to the video of our rhythmic gymnastics show above, and included some information from Mrs. Guillemette below. Enjoy! ASA 2016-2017 GRADE 1 PHYSICAL EDUCATION - MRS GUILLEMETTE MOVEMENT COMPOSITION UNIT PYP THEME : WHO WE ARE PYP OBJECTIVE : MOVEMENT COMPOSITION FRAMEWORK : RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS – RIBBON & HOOP What do we want students to learn? OBJECTIVE 1 = to explore movement possibilities and variations with a ribbon and a hoop
OBJECTIVE 2 = to compose an aesthetic sequence following these steps
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On Friday, we celebrated Halloween. It was great to see everyone all dressed up in their costumes! We began our day by going the to big field to have a costume parade. When we returned to class, we went through our 'Daily 5' rotations before finishing our pumpkin inquiry. We used a special balance given to us by Mr. Shockley (our high school Maths teacher) to calculate the weight of our pumpkin. Frances had to help us with the set up and calculation, as this type of measurement was new to me. When we came back inside, we boiled our pumpkin seeds, put them on a baking tray and headed up to the kitchen to put them in the oven. We baked them at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 minutes. We discussed how Math is all around us and that minutes and degrees are both unit of measurement. We popped back up to our class after this (there was lots of walking up and down stairs), to learn about the parts of a pumpkin. We used a great big picture and labelled the parts. Students took turns coming up and reading them to the class. By the time we finished learning about the parts of a pumpkin, our seeds were ready to eat. We ate our pumpkin seeds together, and when we were finished, we did an 'I Spy' activity looking for and recording words that ended with 'bandit y'. When we returned to school today after the weekend, we spent one last day writing and solving 'Carnival Math stories.' We also played a game where students competed to answer questions involving the addition of 10 more the fastest. During our Language Arts time, we learned about the letter 'e' and how it often makes the vowel before it say it's name. We watched the videos below, the practiced reading words with and without 'magic e.'
After trying this together several times, we got our white boards out and searched the class for 'magic e' words while students worked individually with Miss Soa to practice reading -e controlled vowel words.
During our UOI block, we learned about Johnny Apple seed and the life cycle of an apple. We will begin to follow our lines of inquiry on this topic tomorrow. This morning we revisited the 'carnival Math' from yesterday, but focused on subtraction stories. I am so impressed with this groups grasp of this concept. Please continue telling and solving number stories at home. When we arrived at school today, we had to sign in by placing our photo the the graph below, predicting whether or not we thought our pumpkin would float. As you can see, most of the students predicted it would sink, so we were very surprised when the pumpkin floated to the surface. In small groups, we continued our pumpkin exploration today, with a math focus. Students weighed and measured their pumpkins in a variety of ways. We started, however, by looking, and feeling the pumpkin and writing down noticeable attributes. After weighing and measuring our pumpkins, we opened them up and separated the seeds from the pulp. Students predicted how many seeds they thought there would be in their pumpkins. After this, they counted their seeds out in groups of 10 to make them easier to count. Two pumpkins had around 250 seeds, but one pumpkin had 700! We were surprised to find out that we could count that high by 10s. Tomorrow we will be roasting and tasting our seeds, learning the names of the parts of the inside of the pumpkin, and finding out the fastest way for a pumpkin to decompose. Miss Soa and I are looking forward to seeing our little learners in their costumes tomorrow.
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