Tuesday was Kanna's final day and we had fun celebrating with a farewell Hanami picnic lunch at the park. After eating, most of the boys were happy to play soccer on the large field while the girls and a few others enjoyed playing on the playground equipment.
We will miss Kanna and wish her the best of luck at her new school.
Food Resources: No Hunger
This week the main topic for our unit of inquiry was the goal of No Hunger. We watched a touching video showing just how poor some people in the world are and how they eat leftovers from McDonald's to survive. This led us to inquire into the issue of food waste, and the grade 3 and 4 students quickly organized an experiment to help us measure how much food is wasted here within our school. Pairs of students went to each of the PS, Grade 1, 3 and 5/6 classes to explain what we were doing and why. They distributed plastic bags for each class to dump their leftover food into, and then collected the bags at the end of lunch. We then weighed each bag and added up a total, 2.05kg. To get a better idea of just how much food that is, the students estimated that it would be enough food to share with a family of 4 or 5 people. We also used some multiplication skills to calculate just how much food might be wasted over the course of our 180 school days and were shocked when it came up at 369kg!
In math, we continued to explore multiplication as repeated addition and worked with a partner to calculate how many dots were displayed on a set of dice without counting each dot individually.
Finally, a big thanks to the PTA for the chocolate Easter Eggs! The students were happy to get them just in time for snack time today!
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