Wondering what we have been up to?

Well during Maths lessons we have continued to sharpen our skills in counting money and recognising money.

Items around the room had prices put on them, and the children walked around the room and took photos of the items they wished to ‘purchase’. They then calculated the total amount of money they would need to purchase all of the items of their choice.

During Writer’s Workshop we have been trying to create ‘Legendary’ standard books! Legendary standard books are place in the Legendary display folder on our ‘Bump it Up’ wall.

Our ‘Bump it Up Wall’ clearly shows us what a ‘good’ standard, ‘great’ standard, ‘awesome’ standard, and ‘Legendary’ standard book looks like, that way we can create books and know what kind of a grade we might receive. A Legendary standard book is an A graded book.

We had a look at Mantaj’s soccer book which was place in the Legendary display.

Lisa Burman came to visit us too! She is an expert in Writer’s Workshop, Reader’s Workshop and Word Study. We were very fortunate to have her come and teach us word study lesson where we focused on regonising the ‘g’ sound and investigated how we can use this knowledge to help us become better word scientists and spellers.

We have been focusing on building our writing stamina too! We do ‘quick writes’ where we choose a topic, any topic at all and we write only about that topic, everything we can think of. A 15 minute timer is set and we have to write without talking, without stopping for the whole time.

We have been learning about maps, learning how to find places on maps, learning how to follow maps to get from one place to another, and learning how to give directions on how to reach a destination.

We have been learning about the seven continents and how they are located on a map of the world.

We also completed a study on one of the continents of our choice.