Hello all G1B parents. This weebly will be a smaller than most as I was absent for the whole week. I even missed International Children's Day which disappointed me as I wanted to see everyone's awesome costumes and presentations. Ms Sophia has told me that she took a lot over the course of Friday so I will have them up as soon as I get back! We started our unit on addition up to 10 this week and mainly concentrated on the strategy of 'counting on'. This requires students to start at the first number then 'count on' the addition. For example: 4+3, (start at 4 then add three more) 4 5,6,7 . We looked at using physical objects and number lines (which are kind of like rulers.) The student also looked at the cumulative property of addition, where is does not matter which order you add the number in, you will arrive at the same answer. 4+3 is 7 and 3+4 is 7. We are encouraging the students to start counting on from the larger number though, just for the sake of speed. For writing this week we looked at editing our work using editing marks. For grade 1 they will be mainly looking at capital letters, end marks and spelling with indentation later on the year. The students revised their work and then began to spot mistakes and correcting them. Next week they will have writing conferences with me to finalise everything then publish their work! I am very cranky at missing reading this week as it was 2 of my favourite lessons! We looked at 2 of the 3 ways to read with a partner. First we looked at reading a book to someone. The main focus was to know the book you are going to read beforehand and make sure it is interesting. Students were also encouraged to use their 'storytelling' voice to keep their partner entertained. The next lesson was about taking turns to read. Although this could be easily though to 'read one page/paragraph at a time', the students were encouraged to read some of our 'Elephant and Piggie' books by Mo Willems. These books lend themselves to reading with someone else as they are written as a script (complete with different colour speech bubbles) and the students have a blast when they read them. I look forward to seeing how everyone got on when I get back. We finished our unit of, 'Why do schools have rules?' this week and it got very in depth at the end. We worked on which rules we have in the classroom and why we have them (To help up be safe/get along/learn/be fair.) Students then discussed who decides the rules in different areas (home, school, public.) This led to students learning about democracy and electing a leader to vote on their behalf and talked of the advantages and the disadvantages of this system. Next week we will be visiting the police station to see how they enforce the rules (it's really fun for the students) but I will be also talking with the students how police do their job to help their community and keep us safe (not just guns and shooting bad guys!) We didn't have a prize draw today so I'll get to it when I get back!
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