Terrific Tuesday – A snapshot of our learning

Come Read with Me

• Learning new words
• Supporting peers with reading
• Conversation
• Building upon vocabulary
• Collaboration

Shared Text – R0om on a broom

Rocket Writing

Time for our writers to shine. I am so proud of everyone today – they really tried hard to write as much as they could. This is why we had treasure box today 🙂

After watching the clip we reflected upon the different parts of a story –

Beginning  – The witch was flying on a broom with the dog and the cat.

Middle – problem – The witch lost her bow.

End – The  bird found the bow and was happy.

Money Investigations

What is money?

Laura -Money is things so you can buy with it.

Abraham – Money is not always a circle.

Jerry – Money it to buy toys.

Jed – Money can have different colours.

Bior – Money is what can buy with if you have a lunch order.

Where have you used money?

Keth – You use money to buy things at the shop.

Tina – You use money to buy things at the canteen

How do we get money?

Harper- From the bank.

Adum – You get money when you work.

Jordan – You get money when buy something and then they give you money – change.

Eann – From purse.

Senay – Money is for buying things from the shops.

Mya – you get money from your pocket.

Tell me about the different types of money?

Hendrix – There is green money and gold money and silver.

Emily – There is  coins and paper.

Jordan – Money is rectangles.

Annabelle – There is a Queen on the paper money.

Jed  – Money can have different numbers and pictures.

Abraham – 10 dollars means 1000 cents.

Adum – The different numbers mean how much it is.

Elanthan – Money has different animals

Drawing

Counting

Buying

Sorting

Rubbing

Play Investigations

Today the children used their creativity, collaboration, curiosity,  problem solving and persistence as they engaged in play.

Some of their ideas included –

• Mya – Drawing
• Laura – Making things from paper
• Alexa- Lego
• Jed – Make things from blocks
• Keth -Drawing
• Jerry – Lego
• Abraham – Beads
• Adum – making a beautiful necklace
• Bior – Playing with beyblades

R/1MR will be having a second Dining Hall experience for the term. Please note that there is no charge to families for this service.

Date: Monday 22 June 2020

Lunch Menu

• Fish & chips
• Garlic bread
• cake & custard

What students should bring on the day:

• Plate and Fork labelled with student’s name (non-disposable)
• Fruit
• Recess
• NO LUNCH

If you child has any dietary requirements e.g. vegetarian please let me know

In Kindness

Michelle

Marvellous Monday – A snapshot of our learning

Our Learning

The Calendar

Reading information from the calendar:

Laura: Two more days  until laptops

Abraham – 15 more days until Owen’s birthday

Alexa – It is past laptop day and the weekend.

Jed – 20 more sleeps until Mrs Rodgers birthday

Cone Read with Me

Literacy

Writing – Today during writer’s workshop – remembering to include spaces between words and a capital letter at the beginning and a full stop at the end.

How can we start our story….

• Once upon a time..
• A long, long time ago……
• One day…

Who is in your story?

What is going to happen?

How will your story end?

The children were also encouraged to include more details and colour in their drawings/illustrations.

We will focus on next…..

• editing – going back and reading our work
• Developing the story.  and then…
• Including descriptive words in our story
• Building upon our high frequency words to write
• Speech in our writing – using quotation marks correctly
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Numeracy

Number sequencing and formation

Revisiting and consolidating our number formation

The children watched the clip about formation and we had a discussion before the children complete the number writing task.

Mindfulness

Time to relax after a busy lunch break.

Play Investigations

A snapshot of some of the children leading their learning through play.

Have a nice night – see you tomorrow.

Welcome to a fantastic Friday.

Today we welcome Harper to our class, we hope you have lots of fun learning in R1 MR Harper.

Alexa – It has past laptop day.

Ishpreet – It was the Queen’s birthday but it was past.

Elnathan – There ar 18 more days until Owen’s birthday.

Starting our day with a song gives the children time to greet each other and organise their belongings ready to start reading.

Come read with me –

Literacy – digraph ‘ur’

Keeping Safe Curriculum

What is an emergency?

Bibi – When it is a fire.

Jordan – When someone breaks into your house.

Elnathan – When you get robbed.

Alexa – When someone does something bad in your house.

Adum – When someone bad happens then you call it an emergency.

Hendrix – a building falling.

Laura – When someone is being mean to you.

Annabelle – Is when you get lost.

Abraham – An emergency is when something very terrible happens.

Elnathan -when someone falls down from the tree and an ambulance comes and your family crowds around.

Jordan – An emergency is when someone is unsafe.

Ishpreet – An earth quake is an emergency.

Jerry- When someone breaks into your house.

Sometimes things happen and you need help.

Your body might give you a warning sign.

You may need to break a rule if it is an emergency (Interrupt adult conversation, make a phone call without asking or tell a secret)

We watched  – Library Lion and then discussed the story

Play Provocations

Planning our play – what are we going to do today?

• Home corner
• Making something from boxes in the making area
• Making claws
• Making stuff out of paper
• Build a house from blocks
• try making a claw
• play with lego

Have a wonderful weekend – see you on Monday

Welcome to a fun Thursday.

Come Read with me – A time to have a conversation with friends, share a text, practise and learn new words, build upon fluency and help a friend.

Shared Text – ‘ear’ words

Literacy Rotations

• Put ‘ear’ words in a sentence. For example ‘I can hear a cow’ – focus spacing words out, formation, hearing the sounds/letters in words
• High Frequency Word Cards – reading and writing task
• Literacy Game on laptop – following a sequence of instructions, interpretation
• Mini books & Silly sentences (literacy games) – Collaboration and oral language

Shared Text – Dear Zoo

100 Languages of Learning

What happened in the story:

Mya – The snake was too scary.

Hendrix – The elephant was too big.

Jerry – The snake was too naughty.

Kalil – The lion was too noisy.

Owen – The monkey was too crazy and he didn’t listen.

Ishpreet – The dog was just perfect and the person kept him.

Bior – The giraffe was too tall.

Laura – The camel was too grumpy.

Jordan – The frog was too jumpy.

Jed – The monkey was too naughty.

Elnathan – The puppy was perfect and the. man kept him and he was perfect to play.

Senay – The camel was too grumpy.

Annabelle – At the end the zoo thought hard to get the perfect animal for the person.

Abraham – Almost all the animals were not perfect.

Retell the story – Dear Zoo using 100 languages of learning to express understandings.

Science – Seasons – Winter

Elnathan – Winter is cold and it is really cold and you need to wear jumpers so you don’t get sick.

Mya – You have wear gloves so your hands don’t get cold.

Annabelle – In the winter the leaves fall off the trees.

Abraham – Evergreen never loose their leaves.

Adum – In Australia is doesn’t really snow.

Felipe – In winer water turns into ice.

Alexa – In winter it is very cold and you have to get near something really warm or eat something warm and wear jackets so you don’t sick.

Jed – in winter is about raining and some leaves fall off trees.

Hendrix – In winter some animal so to sleep, enchidna and Barts.

Tina – In winter ir is cold and we wear jackers.

Kalil – IN winter you have to wear gloves and jackets so you don’t get cold.

Jordan – It rains in winter.

Bior – In winter the windows will be covered with ice and to go outside it is so cold.

Bibi – When it is winter you can play ini the rain and the rain gives you water.

Keth – In winter you wear jackets.

Jerry – In winter your wear jumper and then your hands don’t get cold.

Eann – In winter you eat soup.

Ishpreet – In winter you need to wear warm clothes and if you have a cold you need some warm soup.

Senay – You have to get an umbrella

McKayla – In winter you wear jackets.

Laura – In winter it is cold and you need to wear warm clothes.

Have a lovely night – see you tomorrow

Welcome to Wednesday

We started out day by welcoming the new reception children who will be transitioning to Room 5 in Term 3. The children showed, kindness and leadership as they engaged in Play Investigations together.

A snapshot of our learning today:

Library

Play Investigations

• Today the children explored creativity, leadership, imagination, collaboration, persistence during play investigations.

Literacy Rotations

The children rotated through 4 literacy based activities today:

• Big Book shared reading
• Play dough – fine motor skills
• Oral language – Owl Babies retell
• Writing task – Writing a sentence. Adding descriptive words, including full stops and capital letters, focus upon letter formation.

Numeracy – Data

Focus Skills:

• Tallying Information
• Reading information from a graph
• Constructing a graph
• Numeracy Language – more, less, compare, representing, how many?

Have a lovely night – see you tomorrow

Welcome to Fun Friday!

The children have been looking forward to another fun day using the laptops.

Reading information from the calendar.

Laura – Three more days and then it is the Queen’s birthday.

Ishpreet – Today is laptop day because it has an apple which means it is laptop.

Jordan – It is Friday today.

Annabelle – It is week 6

Emily – Yesterday was Thursday.

Our Learning Today

Come Read with Me and Journal

Starting our day with communication and reflection:

Research – using the laptops to build upon our knowledge about the creatures from the Mudla.

The Year 2 children supported us in the process today.

We added the new information to our observational drawing from yesterday.

We also used books to research and build upon our understandings.

Play Investigations

Creating a Habitat for our creature in the Mudla using 100 languages.

Have a wonderful long weekend and we will see you on Tuesday 🙂

Welcome to a fun filled Thursday

The Calendar

Our Learning

Today during come read with me – the children were asked to find words that had the digraph ‘ow’ in their reading books. Super spotting team!

Shared Text – ‘oi’ digraph

Literacy Rotations

Today’s focus for our literacy rotations:

Red Group

• Editing a text
• Listing ‘oi’ words and constructing a sentence.

As a group we read the text –

 it woz hot day and wet to the sop to by sum ice-cream and the ice-cream woz $2 and had to ask mum four the coins and she give me to coins and I wet and buyed the ice-cream and it woz yum and then I wet hom

Then we looked for things that were wrong – words that didn’t look right OR words that didn’t make sense. Together we edited the text.

Blue Group

• Pronouns – he, she and I
• Literacy game – letter bingo

Some photos from both groups:

PE

Mudla

Learning through observation and discussion.

The children walked around the Mudla and decided which creature they would like to learn more about.

Today they extended their understandings through observation , recording and discussion. What can we notice? What do you know?

Tomorrow we will use the laptops to build upon our knowledge.

Green Tree Frog

Bearded Dragon

Spinifex Hopping mouse

Short necked turtle

Long neck turtle

Catfish

Abraham – Does the bearded dragon live in Australia?

Adum – How the catfish get whiskers? I wonder if the turtle – how they hands stick together?

Jordan – Why do long neck turtles grow their necks long?

Kalil = Why do fish have tails?

Ishpreet – Does the hopping mouse live in Australia? why does the hopping mouse have big ears?

Annabelle – What do long neck turtles eat?

Laura – What do frog come from?

Bibi – I wonder how the hopping mouse can run?

Alexa- Why do fish sleep with their eyes open?

Jed – How does the long turtle change different shapes on his body?

Hendrix -Why do bearded dragon have a beard?

Finding out about where they live – what they eat –

Numeracy

Then the door bell rang- Text

As a class we acted out the text – Our learning included:

• sharing objects into  groups
• Recall of how many?
• Problem solving
• Collaborating

Play Investigations

Reflection – continued

Have a good night – see you for fun Friday!

Welcome to a Wonderful Wednesday

The Calendar

We wish Jordan a super special birthday today –  Have fun being 7!

Reading Information from the Calendar:

Jordan – It is my birthday

Ishpreet – It is nearly the Queen’s Birthday

Emily – It is Wednesday

Laura – It is two more days and then it is laptop day.

Senay – Tomorrow is Thursday

Hendrix – Yesterday was Tuesday

Elnathan – My brother’s birthday is on June the 10th.

Our Learning Today

Literacy Rotations

After we read the shared text we moved into our literacy groups.

Year 1 – Exploring the digraph -‘ow’

Blending sounds within words, by playing a game outside with a ball. The ball was bounced to a partner for every sound within a word. ( c-ow – 2 bounces)

High Frequency Words – The children then bounced the ball for every letter in a high frequency word.

Reception children – creating a clown from coloured paper and then recall and writing ‘c’ words.

Shared Text

Literacy Rotations

Play Investigations

Today we had 5 Early Learning Centre children come for a visit to our classroom. These children will be part of the reception intake for Term 3.

Learning Provocations :

• 3 D shapes
• Lego Challenge
• Drawing Dragons
• Owl Drawing
• Paper Folding – paper boats
• Playing schools

Reflection after Play Investigations

What problems did I solve today?

What character strengths did I use?

Data Collection

Numeracy

Today  we explored two tasks –

•  Collecting data about our favourite animals – next week the children will represent this information.
• Sorting a group of animals into a graph – next week we will look at reading information from the graph.

Have a lovely night  – see you tomorrow.

Welcome to Terrific Tuesday!

I hope you are enjoying the Blog – please remember the Blog is a snap shot of learning that is shared to spark conversation with your child about their day and their learning.

Calendar

Jordan – It is my birthday tomorrow.

Ishpreet – It is winter.

Laura  – It is 29 more days and then it will be Owen’s birthday.

Alexa- On the 8th it is the Queen’s birthday.

Emily – Today is Tuesday

Our Learning Today

The children are busy filling out their journal and weather chart this morning (as they do most mornings or afternoons). This week the Year 1 children set up the format for their recording  – having ruling up their charts yesterday. This task reinforces the days of the week and also enables the students to connect with their peers as they have a conversation  upon arrival.

Rocket Writing – Time for our writer to blast off!

Planning a story

Where – Beginning of a story – setting the scene

The children’s ideas:

Once upon a time……

A long long time ago….

One day…

Once  there was…..

in a park…

in the pool…

in the castle….

in the woods……

in London….

in Africa……

Who – who are the characters in the story – what do they look like?

The children’s ideas:

a dragon

a princess

a knight

a Queen

an owl

What – what is going to happen – what is the problem?

The children’s ideas:

lonely

hungry

lost

party

scared

sad

playing

Don’t forget to end the story.

The children’s ideas”

They go home

go to sleep

they make friends.

Shape Provocations

• Shape Sorting
• Shape Pictures
• Making 3D shapes
• Shape drawing