Maths
During maths this week, we continued to practice positioning numbers in their correct value places. To add a bit of fun to the lesson we used our laptops to practice this. We first started by rolling two dice, and recording both numbers. If we rolled a 5 and a 1, we put the two numbers side by side and recorded it as 51. We then used the groups of tens and the units images on the laptop to place them into wither the tens or ones column to show the number’s value.
Later in the week we did this again but this time we used three dice and we had a hundreds, tens and units chart.
Science
During Science we continued our investigations into water.
We put our thinking caps on and began searching within our prior knowledge to see what we already know about water, and learn from others and what they already know.
We focused on answering four questions in as much detail as possible,
- Where does water come from?
- What is water used for?
- How can I use water responsibly?
- Who or what uses/needs water?
Writer’s Workshop
During week six the Writer’s Workshop focus was on listing possible book ideas and matching a book type to that idea.
That way when we are ready to start a new book, they can refer to their list for quick ideas.
HASS
In HASS we have continued exploring our place in the world. Today we focused on our country, our states and our capital cities.
Students drew and labelled their own map of Australia.
Reader’s Workshop
During reader’s workshop we have continued to develop our reading stamina.
Health
This week we dove into an intensive week of learning about bullying and its affect on others. We will continue our learning about this into week 7.
At this age many of the children are beginning to develop a greater social awareness, but can still be quite unaware of how their words and actions affect others.
We started by reading a book about a bully, we talked about the actions that this bully was taking, and discussed that a once off insult to someone does not instantly make you a bully, but if every day you purposely say and do things to harm others, then you do become bully.
We also unpacked what actions makes someone a bully and what actions makes someone a buddy.
The children also participated in an activity where each child was given a paper heart, we read a book about a girl and each time the bullies said or did something to hurt the girl the children screwed their heart up and unfolded it again, by the end of the book some hearts were in pieces.
We talked about how these actions damage our hearts and the damage is not possible to repair, even if you change the way you act toward that person their heart will carry damage forever.
