Tomorrow will be our Field Trip to Proulx Farms! The students have been asking lots about it and are looking forward to it! Just a heads-up that the weather will be rather chilly in the morning (-2) and eventually warm up in the afternoon (+10) so the students are encouraged to wear layers and dress properly for the weather. They should also pack a lunch for the day as it will not be provided.
Language - Descriptive Writing using Monsters
Last week the students had the opportunity to create haunted houses and do some descriptive writing. They used interesting adjectives to describe their nouns and to provide more detail using their 5 senses. This week we will continue our descriptive writing by creating monsters!
The students today created their monsters and then wrote down a variety of adjectives that could be used to describe their monsters. Over the week, we'll be taking those words and writing a paragraph to describe in more detail how the monsters look. The goal is to be able to read the paragraphs and have other students be able to draw a semi-accurate portrayal of their monster.
Today we also began our pumpkin inquiry. After reading the book How many seeds in a pumpkin?, the students began to inquire into ways that we would be able to estimate the amount of seeds in a pumpkin. Today we filled in this chart and scooped out our pumpkin seeds. We took estimates about the amount of pumpkin seeds and will come up with some strategies to test our estimates and find out how many pumpkin seeds there really are in there!
