Welcome to WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY!
LIBRARY
HEALTH
Today’s health lesson is the first in series focusing on ‘The Right to be Safe’. In this focus area of the health curriculum, children learn about the various feeling they might experience in different situations. They learn about ‘warning signs’: the external signals and internal messages (emotion|feeling) that help children recognise a situation where they may be at risk of some harm.
Today we began by exploring, at a developmentally appropriate level, what safety means. We shared the statement, ‘We all have the right to be safe’ and brainstormed ideas to ascertain what we already knew about safety.
In 3JH we did this by creating a ‘safety web’. Sitting in a circle, we passed around a ball of brightly coloured wool, holding on to it as we passed and offered ideas around the theme of ‘safety means …’
NUMERACY
Today the children played a game of ‘Beat the Teacher – a place value game, where with each roll of the dice the players have to decide which place value column they will write the digits in. Players had the choice of Thousands, Hundreds, Tens and Units. Jacob B and Mrs Handforth tied at 3-3; however, Mrs Handforth wasn’t as lucky against Alannah, who beat her 3-0. Mrs Hawkes also joined us in class and worked on Hundred, Tens and Units with a small group of students. Carmelo, Mrs Handforth and Mason played with light up dice that had numbers to seven. Lots of close matches, but overall Carmelo was the winner.
FITNESS
During today’s fitness we met up with some turtles …
WORD STUDY
Our focus today was plurals. We began the lesson by revising the meaning of the word ‘noun’. We then discussed how nouns can be singular and plural. We explored how for most nouns we can simply add an -s to the end of the noun to change it from singular to plural, e.g. one table > five tables. However, we also explored how, if the nouns ends in -x, -ss, -ch and -sh then we have to add an -es when we make it into a plural> For example: one box > two boxes; one church > three churches; one lash >ten lashes; and, one pass > seven passes.
We then watched. a short video which explained a useful strategy for remembering when to use the -es as opposed to s:
Following this introduction, we embarked on a plurals hunt in pairs. Each pair had to locate the different nouns pictures in the classroom, count how many of each noun there were and then record the total number in a list, remembering to use the correct plural ending. It was a busy lesson with everyone searching for noun pictures, but there was some great spelling too. Here’s some examples:
