I have also been asked to remind everyone about the upcoming clothes and book sale! We are asking people to donate old clothes and books to the school and we will be selling them to raise money for charity. If you would like more details about what we are looking for, Ms. Yukiko has sent out an email outlining everything. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
This was a bit of a mixed up week as I was away on the ski trip. I came back very stiff, sore and resigned to the fact I'm not as young as I used to be...... The good news was that G1B got glowing reviews from both Mr. Yoon and Mr. L which was very pleasing to hear. We tried to keep on schedule as much as possible and started a few new units this week. I have also been asked to remind everyone about the upcoming clothes and book sale! We are asking people to donate old clothes and books to the school and we will be selling them to raise money for charity. If you would like more details about what we are looking for, Ms. Yukiko has sent out an email outlining everything. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. We finished our work with length and measuring this week. We looked at measuring things with informal units and standard units. We started with the importance of finding the start and end point of the objects we are measuring. We then measured things in our classroom in informal objects (blocks) and talked about what objects were easier/more difficult to measure with these units. We then moved onto estimating lengths using different objects as guides. We also spoke about how having an idea of how long something is makes it easier for us to use it to compare and estimate other objects. In the final lesson of the week we looked at measuring crocodiles! We looked at, 'How many kids could a saltwater crocodile eat' and estimated then measured them. We used this as a discussion starter on how informal units are not as accurate as centimetres and metres due to the fact they can be different sizes. For the record, an Australian saltwater crocodile can eat 3 students and half an Emma Li. We started our new unit on creative writing this week and we will be focusing on short stories in the coming weeks. To start with, students were asked to identify story features such as the main characters, settings, the problem, the beginning/middle/end and the solution. Students used this research as a springboard in creating their own characters for their stories (which were quite diverse! We even had a story about a talking rainbow.) At the end of the week we looked at writing about the setting and the, 'problem' that the characters will have to try and solve. This writing unit will be a little different to the others as the students can write as much as they want in comparison to the paragraphs that they have written to date. I look forward to sharing some of the weird and wonderful stories that come out of this unit! This week in reading, we looked at reading strategies to use when we come across difficult texts. We will be reviewing some of the reading strategies that we covered earlier in the year but will be focussing more on making meaning and comprehension in this unit. For this week, students were working on making sure that their reading 'made sense.' This involved them being able to identify mistakes using their phonics and the pictures to make sure that they 'make sense.' We also looked at rereading sentences once they have identified a mistake and using the corrected words one more time. These strategies will be very helpful in the upcoming reading assessments as the students begin to read more and more challenging texts. Our new science unit has started and we are going to look at air and weather this term. The students have begun this unit with an investigation into the properties of air and looked at the key question of, 'What can air do?' The students experimented with air pumps and various objects to see how air can push, move, expand and fill things. The students then were asked to do an engineering challenge by designing a parachute to deliver supplies to a person who was on a desert island (surrounded by man eating sharks and crocodiles no less!) Panna volunteered to be the stranded person and students designed parachutes to get her food and water without falling too quickly and making her a Panna Pancake! We tested our creations and finally used them (with Panna underneath) to see if they are effective. The students did discover that parachutes have some problems and tried to work around them. We will continue this next week as we look at the physics of WHY the parachutes help the supplies fall slower and some of the other problems that could be encountered due to air (hint: the wind!) We had our prize winners for the week and this time Yui won the prize draw and chose to have no homework next Wednesday! Emma won the cleanliness and responsibility award and chose a gacha gacha to take home! Well done to both of them!
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