A hot and humid week this week! Could all students please bring in insect repellent as the mosquitoes are out in force. They will need to bring it in everyday as they will usually be outside for P.E. as well depending on the weather. Nevertheless we had a couple of lovely lunches at the park and enjoyed the early summer weather! This week we continued our work with numbers 1-120 but with a bit of a twist. I spent the week helping out with our money center and getting used to American currency! The focus for the money centre was finding the correct amount of money to purchase something (usually Australian food). For example, a jar of vegemite is 57 cents. Most students were able pay using a mixture of 10 cents (dimes) and pennies (5 dimes, 7 pennies) however I was awarding prize tickets to students how could pay with the least amount coins. For the jar of vegemite the smallest amount of coin would have been 1 half dollar coin, 1 nickel (5 cents) and 2 pennies. We finished our unit on numbers this week and will move onto addition and subtraction to 120 next week. Thank you to everyone for their amazing homework and planning! The students are now well on the way on their first drafts for their final reports and the preparation they have already done means that they will probably finish next week! We have also been revisiting some of our spelling words that the students found difficult throughout this term in our writing classes and I hope to revise most of them by the end of the year. We continued our reading unit on reading across fiction and non fiction texts. This week we looked at how fiction books can still hold relevant facts and we read, 'Possum magic' by Mem Fox to learn about different foods and cities across Australia. The students also practiced their reading comprehension and responses by highlighting points in the books that they found interesting and why. We will also begin the students final reading assessments next week and they are all very excited and keen to finally get the chance to go up in level and get to those chapter books! We expanded on the idea of groups we belong to this week. We looked at family groups and how, 'All families are special.' We began with how different families have different members and can be of different sizes, then moved onto the homes which families live in can be different. The students found this to be a great chance to talk about their homes now in Japan in comparison to the family homes they had in their home countries (the Japanese students took great delight in comparing their house to their Grandparents in other parts of Japan.) At the end of the unit we should have constructed a mini booklet describing our families and I'm looking forward to having the students share their texts with the class. This week Sora won the prize box and chose to move her seat for next week. Hanna won the Ms Lindsey prize for the neatest locker (and being a good friend) and has chosen to be the line leader for 3 days next week. Well done to both girls!
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