Wrapping Up November

ART: Warm and Cool Colour Handprints

We have an extremely creative group of artists in Portable 2! During one of our recent art projects, we discussed warm and cool colours and how they can play tricks on your eye when arranged together. Students traced their hand prints and then picked one type of line the fill their background with. They remained very focused when adding warm and cool colours, ensuring they coloured the proper areas in (i.e. warm colours on hand and cool colours on background, or cool colours on hand and warm colours on background). 

MATH: Angle Hunt

After learning about the different kinds of angles, students were challenged to go on an Angle Hunt around the school. Working in partners and using an iPad they found right, obtuse, acute and straight angles. One group even discovered angles on Mr. McMillan! 

MATH: Geometry in Leaside

Now that the class is experts on 2D shapes, lines and angles we continued being "detectives" by finding different shapes and angles on a map of our neighbourhood. Students used a colour coded legend to show quadrilaterals, triangles, parallel lines, perpendicular lines, right angles, acute angles and obtuse angles. Students have been using different strategies to determine if angles are 90°, less than 90° or more than 90° (i.e. corner of a post it note, small square tiles).

Week of November 4th

MATH: Data Management - Food Drive

This week we spent some time sorting, collecting data, displaying data and finally analyzing data based on the items the class brought in over the past 2 weeks for the We Scare Hunger Food Drive. We began by discussing how we could sort the items in order to display them on a graph. After calculating the number of items we had, students were challenged to display the data. Some chose to create a bar graph and others created pictographs. Finally we analyzed the data and discussed why we thought we brought in more of one item compared to another.

ART: Remembrance Day

After discussing the importance of Remembrance Day and watching a video about Flanders Field, the class drew their own versions of Flanders Field. Students focused on foreground, middleground and background when determining the size of their poppies. This art will be hung up in the Gym during the Remembrance Day Assembly.