Welcome to Thursday!
The courtyard outside our classroom is showing signs of spring … how beautiful!
Sport
Today in Sport with Mrs Cooymans the students were learning about gymnastics. They were balancing, jumping and stretching.
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- Harjas
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- Riaan
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- Abhay leaps off the springboard
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- Lowell
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- Sam lands from the trampoline
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- Ebony and Bella doing a paired balance
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- Riaan
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- Anthony and Ariana did some great paired balances
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- Anthony and Ariana
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- Tri balances on the beam
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- and he manages a turn
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- Joshua on the balance beam
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- Aleer
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- Armin
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- Tri
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- Scarlett
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- Kayla
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- Williams
Come Read with Me
Come Read With Me is a chance to share and explore books with a peer, or to finish a book you are writing and illustrating!
Today R1JH shared the story ‘Teatime for Pirates’.
‘But Captain, what’s this on our plates?
We don’t want this for tea!
Sausages aren’t pirate food.
You don’t eat those at sea!’
Captain Cutlass’s crew don’t want to eat their tea. How can he persuade them to tuck in? Why, a pirate needs his sausages to keep him quick and bright! With delightful rhyming text and humorous illustrations, Teatime for Pirates! will help your little hearties eat up and leave them asking for more!
Riaan told us that he know carrots are good for your eyesight, and Joshua told us that he loves eating potatoes, peas, carrots and broccoli to stay healthy.
Positive Education: Growth Mindset
We began the first in a series of lessons about having ‘Growth Mindset’. To begin we learned a bit more about our brains:
After which we began the process of making a growth mindset brain. Today that involved painting the brain in a colour of our choice. Tomorrow we add neurones!
Some students were willing to share their responses to some of the discussion questions.
Andrew told us that Mojo left school ‘because he thought he’s smart enough.’ Andrew told us that sometimes he feels he’s not smart enough to do writing, but he’s not giving up like Mojo.
Kayla said that when she feels something is difficult for her she ‘practises’.
Yasha told us that she has seen her little brother learn to do things that he couldn’t do when he was smaller.
Williams told us that sometimes he reads to his little brother, Wisdom, because Wisdom can’t read … yet.
Sam shared ‘writing is sometimes for hard for me’ and Eerat agreed that ‘Writer’s Workshop is tricky for me’.
Play Investigations
Letters and Sounds
Group 1 were learning about the long vowel phoneme ‘oa’.
Group 2 were getting to grips with the digraph ‘ch’.
