Hello! We had a fun week, and it was nice to get outside again for recess.

In math, we started a new project that we've been talking about. We will be building an 'array city'. We decided on this as a way to decorate our hallway, engage in some art, and to use the opportunity to present some of our math learning.

Instead, however, of simply cutting out building shapes and posting them with arrays, we will be working with real buildings (Empire State building, etc) and scaling them down properly, before reproducing them on our hallway wall. We'll be looking at proportion, ratios, scaling, multiplication, division. We'll be thinking like architects, and deciding on proper scales for our blueprints. It should be fun and a challenge, and we'll be working on this for the next little while. Below is an example of a fairly simplistic array city. Ours should be quite interesting, and I'm excited to see what we can do.

In social studies, we are wrapping up our trip to Tunisia. Mrs. Wilson had the children create large-scale postcards that demonstrated what they learned about Tunisia. This authentic task allowed students to write and share in a way that they would actually do in their everyday lives. Students used the computers to help them research their ideas, as well as to find pictures that they could refer to for the picture side of their postcard. They also researched Tunisian stamps so they could have proper "mail" their postcard to family and friends.

In physical education, Mr. Ellice has us well into basketball. We have worked on dribbling with both hands, passing (both bounce and chest), and are now onto shooting.