Welcome to Week 9

Smile today at as many people you can and spread the kindness.

I have sent out an email this afternoon – can you please check that you have received it and please reply. The blog and email are the best ways to communicate to you and your child about learning, their day and important events.

Routine is important –

– so we begun our day with come read with me.

Writer’s Workshop

Before writing we explored – What is a setting?

Adum – A setting is a cover for a book, so inside the book is a setting to what the book is telling.

Keth – the book is setting inside and it is telling the book what it says.

Jordan – A setting is a character in book.

After watching the you tube clip – Our Reflection

Adum – when the story happens and where

Adum – It is going to happen in the forrest

Elnathan – In the forrest I was walking. It was a sunny day.

The children then went on to write the second page of their book with the sentence starter – It was a ………

Mini Lesson – Letter Jj – Initial Sounds and Formation

Words we thought:

Elnathan – Jordan

Jordan -Jed, Jerry

Emily – Jelly beans

Kalil – Jelly

Keth – Jack

Hendrix – Jo

jet, jog, jam

Music – Today the children met Mr Collins who is the new music teacher.

Mini Math – 10 Frames – Whole group exploration

The children then explored filling the ten frame to represent a number.

Harmony Day Assembly

We revisited the Harmony Day Assembly as we didn’t have enough time to enjoy the whole thing on Friday. We enjoyed finding ourselves and friends and family in the clips and dances.

World Map – Where are we from?

The children enjoyed the discussion about their culture, where the countries are on the map and what flags represent each country this afternoon.

We will continue this exploration during investigations through out the week. Thank you for sharing the informations about your cultures and countries of origin