Criteria:
- I can share my opinion
- I ask others to share
- I support my ideas with reasons/details
- I listen respectfully (eye contact, body language)
Normally when we hear the word “patterns” we think of Math concepts, but this week the patterns we learned about actually connected to art. Ever heard of Romero Britto? He’s a Brazilian artist who uses lots of different patterns in his art. To find out more, we took a look at several different pieces of his art and noticed some common features. His art is filled with simple patterns, bold colours and think black outlines, so that became the criteria for our flower pop art activity. We’ve been exploring fractions over the past few weeks so the unifix cubes have certainly come in handy. Our first activity involved using cubes to make different designs and then using fractions to represent different parts of our whole. We also learned the meaning of “equivalent” after realizing that 1/3, 1/2 and 1/4 can be represented in many different ways. Great Math thinking. Sharing our ideas in a group discussion is an important part of learning. But often when we get together to discuss, one person ends up sharing while others simply wait for their turn to talk. Those “discussions” don’t feel like real conversations. To take our conversations to a deeper level, we watched a video of a group discussion in action and then shared what we observed. We noticed that the kids in the video were able to carry on their conversations by asking each other questions, adding details to further develop those ideas, and sharing their own opinions, even if that meant respectfully disagreeing. They also showed active listening skills (eye contact & body language). Watching this video gave us a different perspective on what our discussions could look like and led to us co-creating criteria for our group discussions. Here's what we came up with: Learning Intentions: I can share metacognitive strategies during group discussions Criteria:
Before finishing up the week and heading off to enjoy our long weekend, we learned a bit about the meaning of Easter with a picture book called …you guessed it! Easter. Although many of us celebrate the holiday, we didn’t realize that Easter is a Christian holiday (similar to Vaisakhi being a religious holiday). The picture book taught us a bit about the religious history of Easter. We then ended the day using watercolours to paint pictures of Easter eggs. We hope they were shared with our families. 😊
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