Mr. Ivan took the class for the 3 days I was absent and had nothing but lovely things to say about the class!
International Children's Day.
All students are invited to come to school on October 1st wearing either traditional cultural dress or fun dress-up, such as an animal, character or object, from their family's home country. They will all deliver a presentation on the topic of their home country.
Students in Grade 1 will make a digital PechaKucha presentation on the theme of 5 Fun Facts about their/their family's home country. G1 presentation format will be:
- 10x10 = 10 image slides at 10 seconds each. You will need to choose 5 images and upload each one TWICE. Then you can talk for 20 seconds about each one!
Grade 1 students will not have regular homework next week (week of September 20th). Instead they will need to create their International Children's Day slideshow at home with parent support using the PechaKucha website and think of one quiz question to share with their teacher. G1 quiz questions and final PechaKucha presentations will be due by Monday, September 27th.
Enjoy creating your PechaKucha and quiz questions for this year’s UST International Children’s Day!
Mathematics.
We had our final summative assessment on Friday and there were some areas that I think we will have to work on as a class:
- Problem Solving and process of elimination. Almost all students struggled with solving a problem that asked which answer was WRONG. The question stated that a girl thought of a number less than 9 but bigger than 4. It then gave 4 answers and asked which number was NOT the number the girl thought of. The numbers were, 5, 6, 7, 9. Nasty!
- Showing working out and mathematical process (using logic.) Students were asked to use a series of numbers and then make a number pattern out of them. They then needed to say what their 'rule' was for the pattern. Some students simply chose numbers randomly but all students struggled to describe the rule they used (they answer was they went up by one.)
These are skills we will work more on in the coming terms as they will be key in succeeding in this difficult maths course!
Writing.
Big Moment. - The first day of school. - A vacation to Okinawa. - I stayed home. | Small moment. - I met my teacher for the first time. - I went on a GIANT waterslide. - I beat my brother at a video game for the first time. |
Reading.
Students also practiced re-reading books to help get better at reading them. We looked at the difference between the first read and the second read and found that the second time was much easier (suprise suprise!)