Collaborative Cardboard City
/This week we continued working on our salmon books. We wrote about adult salmon in the ocean, salmon migration upstream, and about salmon predators. I've been impressed with the growth I've seen in student writing since we've started this nonfiction writing unit. After next week our salmon books should be ready to share! We’ve also been learning about Japanese gyotaku art. We used maps and a globe to find out about Japan and we admired some different types of Japanese art. During project time we started making our own gyotaku art using a rubber replica of a Chinook salmon. In numeracy this week we’ve been discussing three dimensional shapes and architecture design. We decided to create a 3D cardboard city. We took a walk around campus to study the design of various buildings. Then we worked individually, in partners, or in teams to design the structures for our city. Students are combining multiple three dimensional shapes to create their structures and are adding several artistic details as well. Much discussion, problem-solving, and collaboration is taking place as students decide what they want their buildings and our collaborative city to look like. During project time student engineers have also been exploring with other building materials such as geometric blocks, Widgets, and Rigamajig materials.
