Welcome to a Terrific Thursday!
Come Read with Me
Our Calendar
From the calendar, we notice:
Abraham – it’s laptop day
Eann – it’s Thursday
Ishpreet – Yesterday was Gurleen’s birthday and its two more days Roman’s birthday
Gerry – R1MR has PE today because it’s Thursday
Ellara – I noticed we started our day with reading
Our Timetable
Literacy Rotations
We moved into literacy rotations and chose some different activities surrounding the alphabet.
Numeracy
During numeracy, RHA practiced our number formation for the numbers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. and 10.
using elephant trunks to draw them in the air.
Then we had lots of choices of activities to practice what we have learned. We used playdoh, unifix cubes, jems, cars and whiteboards to make our numbers.
After a brain break on the playground, we came back for some numeracy investigation based play.
R1MR practiced bundling groups of ten:
Religion – Rainbow Fish
This is the story about a fish who thought he was the most beautiful fish in the ocean. He was also very selfish and lonely and couldn’t figure out why no one liked him.
After we shared the story we talked about the following questions:
What did the other fish want from the rainbow fish?
Tesi – A scale
Why wouldn’t he give them a beautiful scale?
Mikayla – because he was being mean
Alexis – because he didn’t want to share
Why did rainbow fish become lonely?
Elnathan – because he never shared his scales with the other fish. They wanted a scale but he didn’t give one away and they didn’t play with him.
Abraham – because when the blue fish came by him, he asked him for a scale. The rainbow fish didn’t give it to him and the blue fish felt scared and he told all his friends so none of his friends wanted to come to rainbow fish anymore.
Who did he go talk to about what he should do?
Esrom – the octopus and the starfish
How did he feel when he gave away a scale?
Harper – he felt happy and he kept on sharing
Owen – happy at the end
Ishpreet – when he gave the scale away he felt happy and now he has friends.
We all have special gifts given to us by God and God would like us to share these gifts. We might be able to draw, sing, or build things, but each of us has special gifts from God and like rainbow fish we will feel very happy if we share our gifts with others.
What is your gift? How can you share your gift?
Elnathan – teaching other people sports
Miya – playing with people nicely
Keth – helping people with reading
After our discussion we created our own Rainbow Fish art by using small pieces of coloured and metallic paper to create scales. On the back we recorded what is our gift.
We will be putting these on the wall on RHA’s side soon so keep your eye out!!
Have a lovely night and we will see you in the morning ready for assembly 🙂