Week 11: November 11-15

We had another short week at CEC with Remembrance Day falling on Monday. There was an assembly last week to encourage our students to remember those that fought for our freedom. I was very proud of our students who did a great job of listening and taking the event seriously.

This week in the classroom we have begun writing our own versions of the Three Little Pigs. We have been working to learn about the components of a narrative and elements of a story. The Three Little Pigs lends itself well as a mentor text for writing as well as a great integration into our Structures and Materials unit in Science. 

In Science, we have been testing different elements of a strong and stable structure. They had a lot of fun testing out the strength of our spaghetti bridges and predicting the load that each bridge would be able to hold. Working in small groups for this activity was perfect to allow each student to get hands-on with a guided inquiry as well as give them the opportunity to explore and build a structure out of different blocks and materials in the classroom. The third group was independently looking for and sorting human-made and natural structures from what they learned in previous science lessons.

Another busy week at CEC has come to an end.

Until next week, 

Miss Philip