Condiment Election!

Today we participated in a great activity with all of the 5/6s. It was our condiment election!
We started by saying that we needed to divide all of the students up into groups. To do this, we asked them to choose what they would put on their hot dogs: ketchup, mustard, relish, a combination of the three, or plain. These then formed our "parties". Each group elected a leader and came up with a campaign slogan. Some groups, like the Ketchup Party, were bigger than others. We drew comparisons by saying that some parties, like the Liberals and Conservatives, are bigger while others, like the Green Party, are smaller.
We had a map that showed all of the homerooms or "ridings". Each group assigned one student to a riding. They tried to choose someone who used to be a part of that class to represent that you can only be a nominee in your own riding. Some parties only had 3 or 4 members so we explained that they could only be represented in 3 or 4 ridings just like the Green Party and how they may not be on the ballot in every riding.
The students then went out to the classrooms and collected votes. The results were tabulated and, just as they had predicted, the Ketchup Party won. Luckily, Jasper, the leader of the Ketchup Party, won in his riding and didn't have to kick one of his party members out. We fudged the results a little so that we could have an official opposition (Ketchup one in every riding except for two!). Malcolm, leader of the Ketchup-Mustard Party, was the Leader of the Official Opposition. We had so much fun that we ran right out of time. I will be having a concluding conversation with our class to wrap things up. Their homework tonight was to tell you about it. So, if you ask them what they did at school today, they aren't supposed to say "nothing", "I can't remember", or "ugghhhh".

In math, we all looked at different methods of solving word problems. We divided into groups and each group is creating a poster to outline a different method so that we can use them as tools in our room.

Please hand in your Terry Fox forms and remember to sign those agendas.