We have been working for the past two weeks on Gymnastics, led by Grade 6 leaders from 6R & 5/6F. Grade 6 students have been enjoying gymnastics all together, and Grade 5 students have participated with Grade 5 students in our class. We began to create our group-work performances, which will continue next week, too!
Grade 5 – We have been exploring instruments of the orchestra! Students are currently working in pairs to explore two of the families of instruments: Woodwinds & Brass(wind). We are building our Anchor Chart, and partners are collaboratively searching the Canadian National Arts Centre website www.artsalive.ca, viewing instruments demonstrations on YouTube and answering their “wonderings” using various “kid-friendly” websites.
Grade 6 – We have been working with Ms Fawcett and all of the 6R students on learning how the different Elements of Music (e.g. Volume, Tempo, Form, Pitch, Rhythm, Mode) can be manipulated for a particular effect. We have listened to Carl Orff’s “O Fortuna” (O, Fortune), which is very popular as music to accompany scenes in movies and television. Check it out HERE and HERE. Students are making some pretty awesome conclusions about how to write music to have an effect on the audience! 🙂
Grade 5 – Human Body – Students are continuing to work in partners to learn about a particular Human Body System.
Grade 6 – Biodiversity – Students are continuing to work in partners to show their learning about a particular phylum of vertebrate or invertebrate.
Partners in both grades were given a choice of various ways to present their learning. For the most part, students seem to have chosen to create a “Google Slides” presentation (similar to PowerPoint), but several are thinking of also making a poster, video or participating in a debate!
MATH – Area & Perimeter (both grades)
Grade 6 – In the past week we have thoroughly investigated the relationship between the areas of several shapes:
We reviewed the formula for Area of a Rectangle (A = l x w or A = b x h), and inferred the formula for Area of a Parallelogram (A = b x h) and Area of a Triangle (A = b x h÷ 2 or A = b÷2 x h). Pictures to follow —- they are on the class ipad!
Grade 5 – in the past week, we have created a formula for Area of a Rectangle (A = l x w) and have learned how to solve word problems related to Perimeter and Area. The culmination of this can be seen below: