Another short week for G1B but we had a very busy week indeed! On Friday we had our International Culture day and had a fantastic time. We watched presentations by the G2 students about their countries, learned about cranberries in America (a big thank you to Katherine's mum for a great presentation!) had a fashion show, watched Polynesian dances and Mr Mamadou perform and finished the day with a buffet lunch and a birthday party! A very busy day indeed! We started our new topic of addition to 10 this week. The main focus was the counting on skill. We identified which number is the greatest and counted on from there. For example: 3+5, we started at 5 then counted on by ones to reach the answer, 5-6,7,8. 3+5=8. We used the unifix cubes to model the parts of the sum but used 'rabbit ears' (fingers on top of our heads) for the counting on (which helps students begin to mentally visualise numbers and become less reliant on physical objects.) We continued with the writing process for our paragraphs this week. We ended up revising our work to make it more interesting and adding more details. The students focused on using adjectives and descriptive language to help make their writing more interesting. We also started to compile our work using Ms Allison's hamburgers again! Early next week our paragraphs will be ready to publish! We finished learning about reading in pairs this week and focused on sharing our impressions of a book, which parts we found funny, sad, confusing or thoughtful. We also looked at asked our reading partners thoughtful questions (rather than just straight yes/no questions). Our books we looked at were, Amy and Louis by Libby Gleeson, The Wrong Book by Nick Bland and The rules of summer by Shaun Tan, all excellent books to ask questions about and give our opinions on. We lost one day of science due to the International Culture day on Friday but we still managed to explore spoon gong systems! We found that we could amplify the sound a spoon makes when hit if we attach a string to it them put the string through a cup (try it at home!) This lead us to conclude that the sound waves were traveling up the string then being amplified by the cup. Next week we'll be solving the problem of how to send and receive messages on the same system! I'm sure most of you already know what we will be constructing........ Sayu! She was sick on Friday but she can claim her prize on Monday instead.
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Dear UST Famlies,
International Children's day is Next Friday! Here is a little check list for you to make sure you and your children are ready for the big day: 1. Pick a country costume 2. Choose a wonder from your country (Posters for G1-G6) 3. Sign up to present or share some food with your class 4. Pack an empty tupperwear with a lid and cutlery set for TUE, Sept 25th 5. Cancel Lucadeli Lunch for FRI, Sept 28th If you have not done 1 or more of the tasks above, please do that over the weekend! Here are some Q&As from some parents that we would like to share with you: Q. Will the kids have PE that day? A. Classes will be back to normal in the PM so if your class has PE on Friday PM, please pack their PE clothes Q. When can I drop off the food and where? A. Please have your child bring it to school Friday morning on the day, and leave it in the classroom. You can use a cooler bag and icepacks for things that need refrigerating. No need to bring it in person! Q. For the dress up, can kids wear it from home or change at school, and my daughter (G1) will wear/bring school uniform? A. All grades to wear from home, no uniform (unless it needs to be put on at school). However if your child has PE in the PM, please pack PE clothes. Q. Is this students only event or parents will attend? If parents will attend, what time is it start and finish? If not and sign up for bringing food, kids will bring the food when they go to school in the morning? A. It is a student only event, except for parents who are volunteering to present in class. Food can be dropped off in the AM or have the children bring it in with them. Q. How do I sign up as a presenter? A. If you would like to participate as a presenter, you can do that on the sign up sheet as well and you will be exempt from bringing food + you will get to enjoy dishes from around the world! And you only need to bring food for one of your children. Please do bring a tupperware and cutlery for yourself. Thank you so much for your help!! Mr Hassey Everyone came back from their long weekend well rested and refreshed. A good thing too as we had to get through a lot of work this week with one less day to do it! We still managed to find some time earlier on the week to go outside and play though but this week's schedule was very tight! Mathematics. This week in mathematics we finished our unit on number bonds. In the beginning of the week we worked on more complicated number bonds such as one that include 3 numbers and number bonds that required more than one step to solve. We had our assessment on Thursday and it was a but tough for everybody but we managed to review the harder questions on the test straight afterwards. This knowledge should serve the students well next week as we start our new unit of 'Addition facts to 10' with a focus on counting onwards form the larger number. Writing.The focus this week in writing was writing paragraphs. We reviewed the writing process and identified the different parts of a paragraph and their purposes which are: - Beginning sentence: Is the main idea of the paragraph - Middle sentences: Expand on the main idea. - Ending sentence: Add one more thought. We also started writing our first paragraph for our portfolios (just in time for PTCs!) On Friday we worked on pre writing our paragraph before moving onto Ms Allison's writing 'hamburger' (the first draft, I really like Ms Allison's idea of making a burger!) Next week we will be finishing them off then moving onto revising and correcting. Reading. This week in reading was all about working together in reading partners. We looked at taking turns and looked at Mo Willem's 'Elephant and Piggie' books, which have a very similar structure to play scripts (great for teaching taking turns!) Then we looked echoing readers to help us get through difficult parts then paraphrasing the main idea of the stories to our partners to help prepare them for what's inside the book. I really recommend Mo Willem's books for partner reading with your child as they are very age appropriate (with some tricky words) and the dialogue between the characters includes some great 'Dad' jokes! Science.For science this week we investigated how to change the pitch on our instruments (the one string guitar and the xylophone.) We concluded by looking at the Kalimba and hypothesised how to change the pitch on it. We even tried to use our hearing to copy a basic tune based on whether it was a high, middle or low pitched sound. Our sound unit will conclude next week when we look at sound enginnering problems. and lastly, the Prize Box winner..... was not chosen this week!We ran out of time! Oh no! We will hold our prize draw on Tuesday instead.
Hello everyone! The sign up sheet for the PTCs in October is up on Google drive. Just click on the link below and write down when you and your child can make it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n28JVfiB6IgFDMpEDQKt5HWKIduCkAiEdt57Y7hyXIw/edit?usp=sharing Week 3 was a busy week for G1B. We had a lot of work to go through and we managed to complete it all without any problems! Everyone was excited to get to go swimming again and we made sure there was extended time at the park to take advantage of the cooler weather. This week we covered: MathematicsWe looked at number bonds up to 10 this week, in particular a whole number and its parts. We explored which 2 parts of a number make up a whole number (2 and 8 are parts of 10 for example) and we learned how to represent this visually. On Thursday and Friday we started to use these bonds as puzzles and I was very happy to see the students start to enjoy and understand that playing with numbers can be entertaining (and challenging!) WritingFor writing this week we continued our work with sentences. The class learned the 3 rules of sentences to help them check their work. They are: 1. A sentence has a capital letter in the beginning. 2. A sentence has spaces in between words. 3. A sentence has an end mark. We started to practice writing for longer periods of time as well and will be writing in our journal every Monday about our weekends. This week we also focussed on end marks and the types of sentences they are used in. This was also tied into our reading skills as the students tried to alter their voice when reading different types of sentences. ReadingThis week in reading we looked at how re-reading a text can help us find new information and understandings. We looked at looking at pictures again to find new information and the students really enjoyed looking at the art of Oliver Jeffers. We also re-read texts to help us visualise the characters and help us use our storyteller voice when reading to other people (the work with sentences helped us with this too!) ScienceWe continued our investigation into sound this week. We looked at how our ears hear the vibrations in the air, how different ear types may hear differing sounds and how we can identify certain sounds more than others. We have also started to use specific vocabulary associated with sound such as soft and loud, pitch and volume. On Friday we looked at how to make sounds louder and softer and made our own one string guitars and xylophones. Prize box winner This week's winner of the prize box is Lyla!
The second week has come and gone and G1B had a very busy week indeed! We've started our homework routine (with a few hiccups), started swimming and even had our first assessments for spelling and maths! Here's what we covered this week. Writing and Word work.This week we looked at the characteristics of sentences when writing. We identified that sentences have naming parts (the subject) and telling parts (the verb and information about the subject.) We also looked at how sentences must be COMPLETE (i.e. make sense) and worked on sentence structure for grammar. ReadingOur Reader's workshops are starting to take shape and the students have extended their reading stamina to close to 10 minutes (the goal is 15 minutes by the end of the year!) This week we looked at some strategies readers use to help them understand the text. We looked at using pictures and shared our opinion about, 'The Arrival' and, 'Journey' which have no words. Then we looked at using words and read the class favourite, 'The Book With No Pictures' and finally we looked at retelling stories we know to help us when we read the same book again. Mathematics This week we finished our unit on number one to ten. We focused on number patterns and some of the tricky language that will come up in the assessment. We also managed to integrate some maths games for our new interactive projector! We had our assessment on Friday so everyone had a really busy week! SCIENCE! We had a great time in Science this week as we started our 'Sound and Light' unit. We had our first investigations and learned what a sound is (ask you child to find out what it is!) We made our own instruments and even a massive table fiddle! On Friday we learned about how our ears are sounds receivers and did some drop chamber tests! Prize box winner! Lastly our winner of the positive behaviour program this week was Katherine! Here she is looking less than impressed with her erasers...........
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