Welcome back :)
Welcome back folks! I hope everyone enjoyed their vacation or staycation!
We got back into the swing of things this morning in phys.ed class, playing our favourite pirate ship game! The last round with 5 pirates was very tricky.
Back in the classroom, I introduced our competition with our neighbours in Mlle Thompson's grade 4 class. Students need to read and sign their reading logs (which they should be doing anyway...) and then returning them to me every Monday for points! Students can get a maximum of 5pts each per week. The competition runs for 4 weeks, and the winning class gets a whole free period outside, picking a game to play with the non-winners for part of the time. It needs to be a team effort!
Next, we walked around to catch up with our classmates, findings out what they did over the break with a human scavenger hunt.
In math, groups were given a bag with 14 coloured cubes in it, but not told how many of each colour. Drawing a cube, writing down the colour, and putting it back in the bag to draw again was their only way of figuring it out. It was interesting to see how some groups did 14 draws, while other groups did up to 69! Two groups guessed correctly and the rest were very close, however we focused on the point that more draws = higher probability of guessing correctly.
We ended the day with health, continuing our look at nutritional fact tables. We explored what foods were exempt from these labels by reading info from the Canadian government website. Students then compared some menu items from Tim Horton's versus MacDonald's. Life happens, people eat out, people have busy lives - sometimes eating healthy just means choosing the best option out of what you've got! Students pointed out different amounts of calories, fats, and salts in the foods, as well as how MacDonald's posts their ingredients list and Tim Horton's posts alerts for allergens. An interesting fact (that I just found out the other day!), as of January 1st, 2017, the Healthy Food Act states that all food chains with more than 20 stores in ON must make available the number of calories in each of their foods. While calories certainly aren't the be all end all, nor are they particularly important to 10yr olds, we discussed how this law might be helpful.
