June 20-24

We were busy finishing up projects in this second last week of school. The kids were each making a collage map of an "imaginary neighbourhood", complete with a legend. This project had them applying all they had learned about mapping from our Kensington field trip and our large-scale map of Toronto.

We also finished that large-scale map by adding the homes of the students. Each kid made a representation of their home with their name displayed on it, and we hung these onto the map. We got this done in time for the Spring Concert! I hope parents had a chance to look over the large map, which was hanging beside our classroom door.

Another deadline loomed for finishing all the good copies of the students' stories, for publication in our end-of-year storybook. It all got done! We also were celebrating a birthday every day and making cards for each student, to include those children with summer birthdays.

In math, we did more story problems, because I had promised that every student would be in a math problem by the end of the year! The problems involved grouping by 10, which we've been working on lately.

We also did more work with fractions. The kids each got 2 paper circles and 2 paper rectangles, and their challenge was, through folding and cutting, to make a half and a quarter piece for each. Then they used these pieces to make a reference page with whole, half and quarter labelled for both circle and rectangle.

Our trip to High Park was super fun! The travel time was extended due to construction on College, but the kids still had a good long playtime in the castle playground. We paused before entering the playground to read a book about a dog who writes a story, which reminded many of the kids of all they had gone through to produce their story for the class storybook.

In the playground, we had watermelon and lots of laughter. I was so busy having fun with the kids that I forgot to take any pictures! Thanks to the parent volunteers who made the trip possible.