It was a short week but we managed to get a lot done. We took advantage of the weather again and went outside everyday to the baseball field. A lot of the students enjoyed bug hunting and they even managed to find some shedded snake skin which is now on my desk so they can use the magnifying glasses to look at it. We finished our unit this week on shapes. We worked on halves and quarters in the beginning of the week and we made sure that our fractions were equal to each other, we even managed to touch on the numerator and denominators as well. We also looked at sorting shapes and deciphering some of the tricky language which may crop up in the assessment. Next week we will look at ordinal numbers and positioning for the next unit. We continued our unit on creative writing this week and most of the students finished their first draft, ready for publishing on Monday. There were a lot of ideas spread across the stories and every one is unique (if not slightly strange.) We looked at editing and dictionary usage as well to help our editing of our work and next week the students will attempt to write their own stories from scratch with no teacher assistance. I look forward to the results! Our work on characters went on this week. The students were giving their opinions on the characters in stories. We looked at describing their actions as well as their feelings and reasons why they act like they do. We spent a lot of time with our Charlie and Lola books but also looked at Stuck by Oliver Jeffers and 'Beatrice Doesn't Want To' by Laura Numeroff but the students were able to choose any text they wished to investigate as long as they could produce evidence for their arguments. In exciting news, Mr Guy finished our class project in art and our class now has Richard the Reading Octopus hanging from the ceiling. He doesn't have arms yet but as the children read books at school and home, we will make paper chain links to cover the ceiling! We continued to look at 'Who works at school' this week. We had discussions on why people need to work and what skills they would need to do their jobs properly. We talked about how teachers help us at school and started a joint wall presentation with G1A in the play room. Some children's work on how teachers help us have been put up. We even managed to interview Ms Natasha and will have another section about principals up very soon! Next week we will interview Ms Yukiko and find out how her work is integral to helping our school work at peak efficiency! Show and tell was a massive success again and thank you to everyone who put so much effort into their presentations. There won't be any more show and tells this term but Ms Allison and myself are talking about how show and tell will look next term.
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