We had a more settled week this week after the bedlam that was Halloween. We took advantage of the gorgeous autumn weather to go outside as often as we could. We also had a visit from the therapy dogs on Friday and we got to learn how animals also have a role in our community! We started some of the assessments for a lot of our units, it's hard believe that we only have a couple of weeks until the end of term! We started our unit on shapes this week and the students are really enjoying the more hands on tasks that this entails. This week we looked at properties of 2D shapes and covered: circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, hexagons and rhombi. We covered sides and corners and proceeded to sort out our shapes collections into size, colours and sides. There was a new area introduced into our maths rotations, Tangrams! We started with easy ones (with the shapes drawn on them) but Ms. Allison made some super hard ones for us! At the end of the week we looked at symmetry in shapes and the students will be designing their own worksheets to try and test the class. This week in writing we finished off our formative narratives. These were our first attempts with the help of myself and Ms. Sofia. The students have begun their final summative narratives and we spent a lot of time reminding ourselves of the writing process and what needs to be done at each stage. We did spend some time on grammar and the past tense as this was an area that we found mistakes on in our previous writing. The students will have all of next week to finish off their narratives before we move on to the final unit of the term! For reading, we finished the last of the reading strategies. We looked at 'Chunky Monkey' where we look for words inside the tricky words.For example, 'bring' has 'ring' inside it. We also looked at compound words (two words stuck together. E.g. ladybug) and how, ' Chunky Monkey' helps us with these longer words as it would take a much longer time stretching these words out. We also covered, 'Knowing Kangaroo' which is where students ask the teacher for the help but this used only when they have tried everything else! At the the end of the week we looked at how to read in a storytelling voice for non fiction books and how different fonts reflect how we read the words (such as bold words and words in italics.) Finally, we managed to finish, 'Fantastic Mr. Fox'! We had another busy week of science. We managed to finish off our first investigation about hearing sounds. First we looked at the question, 'Which sounds are easy to identify?' and we used drop chambers (where we drop objects behind a screen and try to identify them based on the sound they make) as well as tuning forks. We found out that heavier objects make louder sound when dropped, that the distance we are from the sound source makes a difference in volume and we discovered that if you can make an object stop vibrating, it will stop producing a sound. On Wednesday we observed sounds outside and make a quick trip to the campus to listen to what sounds we could discern. We found out that sound can be blocked by objects (such as walls and trees) and that high pitched sounds seemed to be easiest to identify. Next week we will be looking at,' Changing Sounds.' where we make our own usable instruments! Nobody! Our assembly with the therapy dogs went much longer than we expected and we didn't have time. We will have our draw on Monday morning.
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