Entry for Wednesday, April 29
What a beautiful image to start our day off with. Wednesdays sure are wonderful.
Today in History
On this date in history, April 29, 2011, Prince William married Kate Middleton.
They are now referred to as Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.
Prince William is one of the queen's grandsons.
The queen is in great spirits about their marriage.
William is holding one of his children...who would be a great-grandchild of the queen.
William's brother, Harry, is behind the queen in the dark outfit. William and Kate later visited Canada and spent some quality time in our fair city of Ottawa!
I have respect for our queen and all people who work hard, Mr. Hamer!
Math Learning
Fractions are Fun!
On Monday we learned about halves.
One half (1/2) of the pizza is gone and 1/2 remains. Yummy!
Two halves make a whole pizza.
2/2 = 1 whole
2/2 = 1
That's the kind of pizza I like!
Yesterday we studied thirds.
This is when we split an object or a shape into 3 equal parts.
1/3 and 1/3 and 1/3 = 1 whole
Here we see 1/3 of the pizza remaining.
Here we see 2/3 left.
Oh, look! We have a "whole" pizza.
Yes...3/3 = 1 whole!
3/3 = 1
Mr. Hamer loves a whole pizza.
Today we will look at "quarters" or "fourths".
1/4 + 1/4 + 1/4 +1/4 = 4/4 = one whole = 1
Yes, one quarter is also known as one fourth.
The numerator is 1, the denominator is 4 in the fraction 1/4.
We don't always have to use circles to show 1/4.
The rectangle above shows it perfectly!
While 3/4 of the diamond above is coloured red, 1/4 remains white!
While the denominator stays the same for these three circles, the numerator changes as we colour more and more sections of the circle.
Video "Fractions Song"
Listen to this fun fraction song and you will learn a lot!
That fraction song was funny, Mr. Hamer!
Your Math Task #1
Draw the math shapes above and colour 1/4 of each shape.
Use a different colour for each shape.
Your Math Task #2
Draw the top six shapes above and colour them just like they are coloured on the page.
Below each shape, print the math fraction the shape shows.
Language Learning
As we celebrate William and Kate, let's read the following story which offers us a surprise at the end.
Video of The Princess and the Pea
Read Aloud
When we think of princes and princesses we think of fancy jewels like diamonds, emeralds, sapphires and rubies.
Poetry
Diamond Poem
Today we will write a diamond poem.
It is called a "diamond poem" because when you write it, the poem naturally takes the shape of a diamond.
Check out the examples below and you will see what I mean.
The picture above is an outline.
Typically in a diamond poem, the words in line 1 and line 7 are opposites or close to being opposites.
Line 1 offers the topic
Line 2 offers two adjectives describing the topic
Line 3 offers three verbs ending in "ing" about the topic
Line 4 offers to nouns related to the topic and two nouns related to the "opposite" of the topic
Line 5 is like Line 3 only it is about the "opposite"
Line 6 is like Line 2, only it is about the "opposite"
Line 7 offers the opposite word to the topic in Line 1
The diamond poem above begins with Winter and ends with Summer...opposite seasons.
Notice how the first two words in the middle line are related to the topic in line 1 and the last two words of the middle line are related to topic 2.
Also take note that halfway along the middle line (line 4) the poem shifts from describing the first topic to the second topic!
This diamond poem is about rain and sun...once again, opposite types of words.
Notice how lines 3 & 5 contain only words that end in "ing".
Check out this day and night poem.
The poet has written the first topic theme in yellow and the second topic theme in blue. Creative!
Mr. Hamer will now try his hand writing a diamond poem.
Diamond Poem
Teacher
Adult, Educated
Planning, Speaking, Marking
Prepared, Creative, Young, Energetic
Playing, Working, Sharing
Keen, Young
Student
By: Mr. Hamer
Your Language Task
With the help of an adult, write your own diamond poem.
Select two opposite ideas.
Some possible suggestions may include.
Indoors - Outdoors
Country - City
Hockey - Baseball
Flower - Tree
Mom - Dad
Cat - Dog
Home - School
Land - Sea
Book - Video Game
Sun - Moon
...or any other idea you come up with!
Diamond poetry is lots of fun to write, Mr. Hamer!
Before we leave for today, the link below takes parents and children to a book shared through the CBC...
...on dealing with the coronavirus for children. The illustrator is the same individual who illustrated the Gruffalo book pictured above.
Scroll across the link and right click to head to the site.
cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/explain-coronavirus-to-your-kids-with-this-book-drawn-by-the-gruffalo-illustrator-1.5546498
Student Sharing
As always, it is a thrill to share the students' work with everyone here on the blog.
The work above is a great example of shapes being divided up equally and unequally.
When working with fractions, we examine those divided equally.
Here is a beautiful example of our "If I Were" poems.
It brings tears to my eyes reading these poems.
Thanks for sharing, G.M.
Another friend sent along this lovely "Biopoem" on the Panda. Indeed, we must look after the bamboo forest habitat for the panda in order for the species to survive. This plea from our young people brings hope to me.
Her drawing of fractions showing 1/3 and 2/3 are clean, neat and orderly...easy to read and understand. This is greatly appreciated, M.S.
"It's so much fun reading our classmates' work, Mr. Hamer," these two happy students tell me.
We finish our work with this lovely prayer.
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