Week 4 learning highlights

Celebrating reading

Congratulations Ayush for achieving 125 nights of reading – well done.

Congratulations Emily for achieving 100 nights of reading – well done.

Word Study

Letter Mm and Letter Dd

Letter formation
Initial sounds
Word building
Constructing a sentence.
Building stamina during writing tasks
Comprehension – representing a text using a visual picture

Numeracy – Shortest to Tallest

Exploring measurement: The students drew their families in height order.

Play Investigations

Social interactions
Communication
Problem solving
Creativity
Leadership
Collaboration

HASS

We began our discussion by asking the students if they had been or heard of the River Murray. Then we looked at a map which showed the River Murray.

Then we read the Dreaming Story – ‘Ponde” – How the river Murray was created?

The first of these Murray River creation stories involves Ponde, the Murray Cod, and the ancestral hero Ngurunderi, with the essential elements as follows:

“a huge Murray cod [Ponde] … chased by a great hunter [Ngurunderi], thrashed along the channel, forming the bends, reaches and billabongs of the river. When the great fish was speared at Lake Alexandrina, the hunter threw pieces of the cod back into the water, naming them for the fish they would become; golden perch, bony bream, silver perch and so on. When he finished he threw the remainder back and said, ‘You keep on being ponde’. (Wahlquist 2005, p. 40)”

After we shared the story we created our own River Murray full of fish.

Numeracy – comparing length

The students worked in pairs, each tracing around their partner’s foot. Then they measured their foot using centi-cubes. Then they compared the length and wrote a sentence about their measuring.