The children were given the following brief this week and asked to respond via handwritten letter,
A new toy shop is due to open in your local area, called
“Magnificent Toys”
As part of the marketing campaign to encourage people to come to the shop when it opens next week the manager, Thomas Jones, has sent catalogues to every local Primary School; enough for each child.
The catalogue is split into two sections, in the first half all the pages are pink and are filled with dolls and dressing up clothes. The other half the pages are blue and filled with toy cars and construction. There is also a picture of the inside of the shop on the front.
In this shop, on the right hand side, all the shelves and labels are pink and there is a big sign saying “Toys For Girls”. On the left hand side all the shelves and labels are blue and there is a big sign that says “Toys For Boys”.
The children applied their learning from last week’s gender stereotype lessons to create a letter to express their opinion and persuade the manager to rethink his shop’s layout. Well done to everyone, there was a lot of higher order thinking skills being demonstrated.
In Numeracy we have been focusing on word problems and applying our learning and skills in different contexts. we have been trying to link these into skills for life. This will continue into next week. Some of us were also exploring how to express a remainder, from a division calculation, as a fraction. This will extend next week into converting the fraction to a decimal. 2D shape has also played a large role in our Maths learning this week, if you would like extra practise try this interactive game.
http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/me3us/flash/lessonLauncher.html?lesson=lessons/14/m3_14_00_x.swf
Our seeds are growing well and we have now started our investigation into seedlings that have been fertilised with liquid plant food versus those have not. Stay tuned for further updates over the next few weeks.
We were all for THE HIGH JUMP in PE this week. It was so exciting to watch as everyone took part in a class competition. Colin was our amazing stand out (jump out!) athlete, jumping 1m 40cm! Well done Colin!
Have a lovely long weekend.
