As our UOI is focusing on how we express ourselves, we've been finding lots of ways to do this. Following on from last week's 'I Am' poems, we began to look further into poetry techniques as well as how different cultures express themselves through poetry. We started off with creating our own made up words for nonsense poems, using 4 words repeated in different ways to create poems and playing with the structure of sentences from books and turning them into poems. Then,we began looking at Haiku poems which originate from Japan and focus on nature and the seasons. We wrote haiku poems with partners before writing individual poems and were given pictures of various scenes to write about. In preparation for our concert, we began to research The Black Nag which is a traditional English folk dance. We've also been comparing it to dances from different cultures to see if there are any similarities or differences. The dances the children chose to compare it to are: Chinese Dance Line Dancing Ballet Dragon Dance (Traditional CNY dance) Shishi-Mai (A Japanese lion dace) As I write this, the children are currently taking part in a drama workshop. They're learning how we use our bodies as a tool to express ourselves and are having a lot of fun with it! The main focus is learning how to improvise which is a very useful skill to learn, especially with our performance coming up next week! Today they've been working on freeze frames, poses to show different emotions, facial expressions and making the most of the space around them. We can't wait to see what the second half brings tomorrow!
Here is what some of the students had to say about the workshop so far:
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Learnt about tessellations, begun our new math unit on multiplication and division, written our own poems AND begun some artwork for our concert! Writing As part of our unit, we have begun to learn about poetry from different cultures. We've had a look at Haiku and Pathya Vat and next week we will begin to write our own! We've also had a look at Black Out Poetry and 'I Am' poems. The children have written their own 'I Am' poems and I have learnt so much more about them as they wrote about their thoughts, curiosities, worries and dreams. These poems will all be on display soon so come and have a look! If you can't wait till then, the children did type these up and they are saved on their drives so please feel free to ask them to share the poems with you. I'm sure they will be very happy to do so! Math
At the start of this week, we finished off our work in shape by looking at tessellating patterns. We looked at regular tessellations and irregular tessellations and the children began by making their own with shapes. They then drew their own tessellations on paper. Although, their finished work looks very complicated, there were only a few rules to follow to make sure the shapes tessellated. These will be up on portfolios shortly so keep an eye out for them. In one of the photos below, you can see two children who successfully completed a round of describing shapes. One child had an image of shapes which the other child was not allowed to see. Using all the vocabulary learnt at the end of last semester and in the last week, the student then had to describe it to their partner who had to draw it on their whiteboard. It taught us how important it it is to use the right language not only in math but in any situation, so that we can ensure people understand exactly what we mean! Hi everyone! Welcome back to our blog. We've had a wonderful break and had lots of funny and exciting stories to share with our friends last week. We are also welcoming two new students to our class. Our Grade 3 Concert will be taking place at 3.00pm on Friday 2nd February at Serangoon Hall. All are welcome. We look forward to seeing you there. UOI Our new UOI is How We Express Ourselves. We are looking into how 'the tools we use affect how we express our ideas'. Last week we started off by unscrambling our central idea and drawing and writing what we thought it meant. We then spent some time breaking down the words in our lines of inquiry. We used dictionaries, people and the internet to find out what the key words in our lines of inquiry mean so that we can truly understand them. Our lines of inquiry are: - Artistic expression in different cultures - How technological advances have affected expression Math In math, we are continuing our work on shape. We have learnt lots of new vocabulary such as congruency, similar, regular, irregular, flips, turns and rotation. We used geoboards to create shapes in order to show our knowledge of the vocabulary and then we went on a symmetry hunt around school. This week we have moved on to tessellation. In class we began by using shapes to figure out which ones tessellate and which ones don't. Some of us made patterns using the same shape but flipped or turned them in order to make the shapes fit together. |
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