Week 25: 5 Days Until Break

Books We Read
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Is That a Coconut?  Yuck!
Revenge of the Dinotrux.
Let's Play In The Forest While The Wolf Is Not Around

Weekly Centres
Printing
We worked on our letter Q (which we made by adding a line to an O) and the letter G (which we made by continuing our C and turning in)

Make 5
We covered the tables in our math and language centre with five strips, gave small five strips as well, and created fives by either colouring, adding small items like bears or blocks, or creating other things based on five in the centre.

Sandbox Sorting
In the sand centre, we searched for items in the sandbox and sorted them into groups of five, using whatever sorting rule we wanted.

Drinking Gourd Maps
Using pictures of hills, soldiers, dogs, safe houses, fields, lakes and rivers, we created maps that allowed people to "Follow the Drinking Gourd" to get to the freedom of Canada.  This will be important when we follow the drinking gourd on Friday!

Other Things We Did

Everybody was asked to "Make 5" any way they wanted at the start of the week.  We had people using fingers, crayons, bears, blocks, letters and, in some cases, combining items into groups of five.

We searched for five in our daily message.  Some people found the word, some people found words with five letters in them, some people found five sight words and one person noticed that the S and the 5 look almost the same!

We looked back at Follow the Drinking Gourd and used our memories to remember the different obstacles characters in the book faced.  We then co-operatively drew a map.

We figured out that there were five days until March Break, and counted down each day, both at the beginning of the day, and at the end.

We went around the school on Friday afternoon, following the drinking gourd to safe houses, up hills, across rivers, past old forests, hiding from guards and dogs, all the way until we got to the safety of our classroom!