Welcome to another wonderful Wednesday!
Here’s how our learning looked for the middle of the school week:
Letters and Sounds
Group 1 were learning all about the letter z, making the sound /z/. They learned that at the start of a word a single z is used, for example, zoo; however, at the end of the word the sound /z/ can be made by either one z as in quiz or by twos in buzz.
Group 1 always sing The Alphabet Song too. Why not practise it at home? Or teach it to a little brother or sister, or a parent?
Group 2 were learning about the long vowel phoneme ee, as in cheese and week.
Character Strengths: Perseverance
We began by watching the very lovely story How to Catch a Star by the talented author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers.
We reflected on the story. How did the boy use perseverance in order to catch a star?
- Tri: He didn’t give up.
- Braiden: When he couldn’t reach it, he climbed a tree, the tallest tree.
- Lowell: He used his dad’s life ring to try to catch it.
- Lina: He asked a bird to get it for him.
- Abhay: He tried to do it lots of times.
We thought about the things that we have persevered at in order to master a skill or achieve something. Times when we didn’t give up, even when things might have been tricky or taken time.
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- Perseverance
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- Thinking: What have we tried hard to do?
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- Reflecting: When have we tried hard to achieve something that wasn’;t easy to do straightaway?
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- Dylan: Learning to scooter
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- Lowell: Learning to write
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- Aleer: learning to ride a bicycle
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- LiOne: Learning to draw monsters
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- Agamjot: Learning to count and learning to run
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- Harjas: Learning to walk
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- Ariana: Learning how to use a laptop
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- Eerat: learning to walk, talk and ride a bike
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- Sahana: learning to walk
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- Vincent: Learning ride my scooter
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- Aisha: learning to walk; learning to read
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- Anthony: learning to ride a bicycle
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- Mikayla: learning to use a laptop
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- Kevin: Learning to ride my scooter
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- Isabella: Learning to ride a bicycle
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- Riaan: Learning to ride a bike
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- Williams: Learning to drive my car, learning to
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- Tri: learning to ride a bike
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- Sam: Learning to ride a bike
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- Arnav: learning to ride a bike; falling off and getting back on
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- Abel: learning to do karate; I’m still learning!
We also reflected on how we use perseverance to learn to read: now we can read more words and higher level texts than when we started at school. We use lots of different strategies to help us learn: practising, re-reading; sounding-out,;blending sounds; chunking into syllables; getting clues from the illustrations; thinking about meaning; semantics; context; splitting compound words into two or more parts; looking for words within words; spotting letters that make sounds we’ve learned about and many more besides. We love reading in R1JH and R1MP!
