Mathematics.
2, 3, _, 5, _ Students will need to fill in the blank numbers.
8, _, 6, 5, _ These caused some confusion as the pattern is not shown in the beginning. It is also going backwards.
3, 5, _, 9 The students found these patterns harder as not only is it not in sequence (i.e, going up by ones) but it is also off number for counting by twos (students will readily recognise 2,4,6,8 etc but struggle when asked to count by twos from 13 for example.)
We also looked at numbers one more than and one less than. One key word that was stressed to the students was finding the, 'difference.' This phrase will be popping up throughout the curriculum and we worked on using manipulatives to model 2 numbers and found our how much more or less one number was compared to the other.
Writing.
Statements - Require a capital letter in the beginning, be a complete thought and use full stops (periods)
Questions - Require a capital letter in the beginning, have a question word and use question marks
Exclamations - Require a capital letter in the beginning, require a strong emotion like excitement or suprise and use exclamation marks.
We also had time for more handwriting and covered 'o' 'd' and 'g' this week. Next week we will look at writing traits and the expectations for writing full paragraphs as well as looking at the rubrics I will be using for marking.