Students read well in our first week of the read-a-thon averaging 15 minutes or more a night. I have asked children to try to read for 30 minutes each day for Saturday and Sunday to ensure we reach our total of 2,400 mins. Keep up the great effort G1b.
ELA
Our Spelling words this week mostly focused on beginning blends with the letter "l". On Friday we had our weekly quiz on these words.
In grammar and writing we practiced writing three different types of sentences - telling, asking and exclamatory. Children used appropriate end marks for all these sentences. We also used these skills to continue editing a piece of writing and moved to publishing it.
In Readers workshop children practiced the skill of visualisation (making movies in your head) and also retelling a story with a partner. After reading buddies read together they prepared a small presentation to the group and retold the audience their story in order.
This week we explored solid shapes. We looked at edges, faces and vertices (corners where edges meet) of solid shapes - sphere, cylinder, cone, rectangular prism, pyramid and cube. Students worked together to see if these shapes could stack, roll and/or slide. We found the sphere could only roll but a cylinder could do all three. Students also worked in groups to make pictures with flat shapes. We are continuing to work towards being able to work in small groups and share classroom resources.
This week we looked at What Materials Make Up Objects.We know that different types of materials that can be divided into natural and human-made. Children went around the classroom collecting and classifying objects into three groups using the venn-diagram below. Children found that some objects were made up of different parts that were made from different materials.
We reviewed needs and wants with a sorting activity. People meet their needs in different ways but most people use money to buy things they need and want. We then went on to look at why we make choices. Another of the concepts we read about was something being scarce (not enough). Next we will continue to look at making choices and introduce trade offs.
Group B told us about what they did in their Fall Break this Friday. We will take a week off and then start with a new topic - what your child would like to be when they grow up.
Larissa