Welcome to terrific Tuesday!
We began the day by searching for missing words – there were 6 to find.
Well done to the following children:
- Arielle – for finding the word slide
- Lina – for finding the word wet
- Ariana – for finding the word float
- Sam – for finding the word swim
- Yasha – for finding the words water and cool
Our Tuesday lined up as follows:
Thank you to our classroom assistants for helping our classroom run smoothly today:
Guided Reading
We shared the text, Room on the Broom, for the second time. This time we were listening for rhyming words in the text.
On the subject of reading, it so wonderful to see so many of the children keen to share their reading at home books with their teachers and peers. There is a palpable sense of pride when they do so. Thank you, parents, for continuing to read with and to your children at home. It makes a massive difference – not only do we see this within the classroom, but research also tells us this too!
Last week, some children were asking me about this poster, which is on the pin board in the school library …
Reading is good for you and your child is so many other ways too …
Literacy Activities
Here is what the various literacy groups were up to today.
The Green and Red Groups today were drawing a picture of the main character from the text – the witch. Some children also added labels and some of the minor characters from the story. They also shared a text with their teacher during a Guided Reading session.
The Orange and Purple Groups were consolidating learning about the letter b. They were practising writing the letter b whilst saying ‘down the bat and around the ball’. Then they were encouraged to make the sounds in the CVC words beginning with b which they were recording in their handwriting books. After this, they tried to find the b words in a word search, helping each other in pairs.
The Blue Group worked with Miss Ryan today. Liam and Aisha helped Miss Ryan to sort the magnetic letters so that the group could use these to spell CVC words. The children looked at pictures of simple words such as c-a-t and h-a-t, and b-u-g and d-i-g. They said the cat aloud and then segmented the sounds in order to help them chose the correct magnetic tiles to spell the word. Finally, they had a go at writing some of these words on mini-whiteboards. What a bunch of busy bees!
After a short play investigations it was time for our first Term 2 dining hall experience. On the menu was sliced chicken breast (or vegetarian fried rice with peas/corn/carrots) and hot chips, with a creamy chocolate mousse for dessert.
In the afternoon, the children attended Spanish and Music lessons with Mrs Nunezx and Mr Collins respectively.
Yesterday, our WordPress blogs were not uploading images correctly, so here are some photographs of yesterday’s learning, which you may have missed and/or may not have seen …
Religion (Monday): Who is God? Where do we see God around us?
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- Micky: God made the sea.
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- Sam: God made aliens, unicorns and shooting stars.
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- Agamjot: God made the rain, the water and the sun.
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- Joshua: God made the ocean with sand. He made the flowers, and the sun and the sky and the flowers.
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- Yasha: God made birds, fish and lots of colours.
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- Shruti: God is in my backyard, but you can’t see God.
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- Abhay: God is white like a shirt.
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- Scarlett: God is making flowers and God is making water for the flowers and the animals.
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- Mikayla: God is like the ocean. God made the ocean.
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- Aleer: Here God is making the seas and the trees.
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- Williams: God is a volcano, strong and beautiful.
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- Anthony: God made my house without a garage. My family live here.
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- Tri: God makes sharks. God made people to ride in steamboats. God made houses.
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- Vincent: God made the island, the beach island.
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- Aisha: God is like the sun and the flowers.
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- Harjas: God made the sun and the sky. He made trees, people and the sea and the sand.
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- Arnav: This is the rain and here is Jesus on the water.
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- Isabella: God is a field of yellow flowers.
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- Ebony: God is like a sunset with hearts in the sky.
Numeracy (Monday): 2D and 3D shape rotations activities
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- LiOne made a 3D shape.
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- Scarlett used persistence to make 3D shapes from polydron pieces.
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- Joshua made a pyramid.
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- Priya made lots of 2D shapes on the goeboard.
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- Vonn made a cube.
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- Athian is constructing a 3D shape.
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- Nicole is sorting 3D shapes into sets.
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- Aleer is busily constructing using the polydron kit.
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- Riaan tackles tangrams.
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- Aisha is making pictures with her tangram shapes.
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- Abhay makes shapes on the geoboard
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- Liam is making 2D shapes and patterns on the geoboard.
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- Vincent has made a square and a rectangle so far …
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- Agamjot is using tangram shapes to make a picture.
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- Kyle begins recording.
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- Liam is busily adding more elastic bands to his geoboard.
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- Williams coloured all the 3D shapes on his picture the correct colour!
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- So did Ambrose!
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- Abel has made a dog out of his tangram pieces.
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- Riaan is also trying to make the dog.
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- Agamjot tackles the tangram puzzles.
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- Eerst is making the house and also made a super turtle.
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- Aisha and Isla helped each other.
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- Riaan made the house!
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- Yasha is proud of her pentagonal prism.
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- Ayan has recorded his 3D building in his numeracy book.
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- Sam collaborated with Ryan. He too has drawn a representation of his 3D building.
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- Isla is using the tangram pieces to attempt to make the house.
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- Ebony used the key to accurately colour a 3D shape dog.
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- So did Mikayla!
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- Athian’s cubes.
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- Vincent is proud of his learning.
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- Sorting 3D shapes.
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- Scarlett is feeling proud too!
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- Lina is drawing the shapes she made on the geoboards.
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- Dylan is constructing a 3D shape.
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- Scarlett has made another 3D shape using triangular pieces of polydron.
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- Tri and Kevin worked collaboratively together.
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- Isabella and Deanna building their 3D shape building.
