A warm welcome to Wednesday …
Reading Award
Congratulations Ayan on your wonderful achievement of reading for 150 nights. Well done!
Library
Today we read another shortlisted book for the Picture Book of the Year (Early Readers). The children loved this beautiful story about a little boy and his longing for a dog of his own. A beautiful story written by Kirsty Murray and wonderfully illustrated by Karen Blair.
Letters and Sounds
Mrs Papillo’s ‘Letters and Sounds’ group were focusing on the digraph /sh/, which is made by the letters s and h working together to make a single sound:
Why not try singing the sh song to the music?
Mrs Handforth’s ‘Letters and Sounds’ group were focusing on the letters ‘oo’ again … but unlike last week, this week the letters made a short vowel sound, as in book, cook, look and took.
Here’s the music to the /oo/ song above:
Numeracy | Geography
In numeracy today we continued learning about position and direction in the context of mapping and perspective. The children were invited to draw a Bird’s Eye View of their classroom. This involved a lot of thinking and concentration.
Play Investigations
Bike riders having fun.
Vonn couldn’t wait to get outside and ride a bike.
This group enjoyed using the Sharpies to draw with.
Riva and Shruti enjoyed writing and making.
Arielle used mini paper to make pictures and books.
Riva made a pair of headphones.
Isla continued making her crayon house today.
Ayan worked on his group’s crayon house in play investigations.
Braiden continued to work on the crayon house.
Harjas and Agamjot play with the blocks and trucks together.
Sahana examines her crayon house.
Positive Education: Growth Mindset
This afternoon we embarked on the fourth in a series of lessons dedicated to exploring the concept of growth mindset.
We began by watching the final instalment of our Class Dojo learning about growth mindset: Mojo Puts It All Together. In this episode Mojo reflects on the meaning of ‘your brain is like a muscle’ after a setback.
We discussed the following questions in Talk Partner pairs with some students sharing their feedback with the wider class:
- What feelings do you have when something is too hard? Is it okay to feel that way?
- What kind of attitude should we have when facing a challenge, and why is that important?
- When doin something challenging, t’s okay to ask for help or take a break to reflect, like Mojo did! Does this mean we aren’t growing our brain anymore?
Some things we can think and say if we foster a growth mindset are:
We also discussed what someone with a fixed mindset might say:
Here are some of our amazing brains!
