Welcome to fun Thursday
Wednesday marked the day for the start of Reconciliation Week.
2020’s theme for Reconciliation Week is ‘In This Together.’
In the year 2000, there were 2 important events held in celebration of Reconciliation Week, and this time was known as Corroboree 2000. The first event was the meeting of high-profile Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders at the Sydney Opera House on 27th May 2000. This meeting was described as ‘a ceremonial gathering of Australians to exchange commitments in the lead up to the centenary of Federation in 2001’.
The second event of Corroboree 2000, was the Walk for Reconciliation across the Sydney Harbour Bridge; which took place the following day on 28th May, 2000. The walk was known as ‘Walking Together.’ Each member participating started at the North End of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and walked towards Darling Harbour together.
To mark the 20th Anniversary of the ‘Walking Together’ movement, Reconciliation SA have set the provocation; each day over the course of Reconciliation Week, the target is to walk 1600 steps together, to recognise the celebration of this anniversary and showcase our support of being in this together. The steps are calculated from the distance of the Sydney Harbour Bridge; 1.14km, which equates to about 1,600 steps a day.
Team R1 MR are walking 1,600 steps each day over the course of Reconciliation Week to raise awareness, celebrate and recognise Reconciliation Week 2020.
We started yesterday and 1,600 steps is about 4 laps of the oval – the children did a fantastic job completing this goal.
The calendar
Our Learning
Shared Text
The Sunflower Sword
Recall – revisiting learning through sharing a text over the week.
Literacy Rotations
Building a sentence – What next…..
Focus upon spacing of words, Capital letter at the beginning and full stop at the end.
When writing a sentence the children are drawing upon many skills and understandings. They first need to hold the sentence they are planning to write in their head while constructing it word by word on the page – bringing together letter formation, sound knowledge, recognition of high frequency words and application of punctuation.
Today we scaffolded this learning as the children constructed a sentence independently.
Sports
Keeping Safe Curriculum
What does a safe activity?
- Sound Like
- Feel like
- Look like
Abraham – Feels like nothing bad is going to happen.
Elnathan – Feels like you are not scared or nothing dark next to you and you are not going to be scared anything. You will see a smile on your face.
Laura -When you are not scared you have to be not be scared.
Adum – When you are safe you are protected.
Mya – If you are playing at the playground and that is fun and your Mum and Dad are watching.
Bibi – It is safe to be at your home. It feels safe.
Kalil – Safe feels happy.
Alexa – When you feel safe, like somewhere safe like a house, it like nothing can get you.
Ishpreet – It feels like you are safe.
Safe is when you feel happy and you will hear laughter and kind words.
What is a risk?
Risk Taking is doing something that has potential danger
Positive – you learn something new, increased confidence
Negative – you could get hurt, be embarrassed or decrease your confidence.
What could be an everyday risk situation?
- Climbing up high for the first time
- Using scissors
- Running on the pavers
- First time you rode your bike
We talked about the above activities can be a positive or negative risk.
Then we shared the text – Jack and the Bean Stalk
What were the risks?
- Jordan – Climbing something really tall.
- Elanthan – Taking something that is not yours
- Ishpreet – Taking the chicken
- Abraham – Being a chased by a stranger that you don’t know.
- Adum – Going into a stranger’s house.
- Alexa – Going into a shop where no one is.
- Hendrix – Don’t talk to strangers
Looking for clues about risks for the following activities:
Coming to see a new puppy?
- Bior – Going in a strangers house
- Owen – A puppy might bite you.
- Jordan – If you don’t know a puppy don’t walk up to it.
- Abraham – If you know the owner it is ok
Cooking noodles
- Felipe – You might get burnt
What could we do if we are in an unsafe risk situation?
- Emily – Tell the person
- Jerry – Talk to the teacher
- Kalil – You go to your Mum or a teacher.
We talked about warning signs and how our body feels and the importance of listening to these.
The children then recorded using pictures and words in their books – Safe and Unsafe risks.
Science
Predicting
Observing reaction
Articulating theories
Recording using picture and words
Today we were scientist – it was a fun experiment which will lead into making potions during play investigations.
I wanted the children to observe, predict and articulate their theories about changes that were happening.
