RMH

Can I Ask you a Question?

This month students in Junior Kindergarten to Grade 3 dived into a unit in Data Management. Students used their natural curiosity to ask questions about their world, and instinctively they wanted the answers. So off we went to find them! Students learned that good survey questions were clear, specific, and came with choices. The questions created were intriguing: Do you like to save animals? What is your favorite country?  Do you like to help people? Once the survey question was perfected, students learned how to respectively request someone to answer a survey. Excitedly, students wanted to ask everyone in sight, so we had to come up with an efficient way to collect our data—tallies. Next, we represented the data using bar graphs and pictographs. Students learned a great deal about surveys, tallies, reading and making graphs, and most importantly learned a lot about each other. Everyone did an excellent job!

What Comes Next?

If you look closely around your world you can find patterns everywhere, and that is exactly what we did to start off our Grade 4 to 8 Patterning Unit. We found patterns in architecture, music, dance, stories, clothing, shapes, colors, and in numbers, of course. Students began to wonder why the world insisted on having patterns everywhere. They discovered that patterns were something to love because they keep things in order, assist in memory and help us play and create wonderful music, dance and literature. As well, it is a tool we use to predict. Students learned that patterns can grow or shrink, and utilized a T-Chart to solve the pattern rule. The T-chart was also used to solve different terms and term numbers. After planning for many parties, watching the decline of a chess board and awaiting the growth of a Christmas tree, students are prepared to find patterns in everyday life and use that information for mathematical and everyday predictions, keeping us one step ahead.

What do Snowmen do at Night?

Have you ever wondered what snowmen do at night? Students from Kindergarten to high school did and used it as a catalyst to create this year’s Winter Concert. Students decided that snowmen changing shape overnight was not simply due to “weather changes” but was evidence of the many adventures snowmen engaged in while the rest of us slept at night. Using song, dance, drama and jokes, students took the audience on a wonderful journey which included a snowmen baseball game, a banging snowmen party displaying innovative song and dance moves, and a sleigh ride that sure was fast, bumpy and full of jingle bells. All students displayed tremendous dedication and an exuberant amount of talent. Songs were beautifully sung, the dances were rhythmically articulated, jokes were flawlessly delivered, and everyone enjoyed the show. 

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