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. 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. Our 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. 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! 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! 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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