We had a few special events this week. We had our field trip to the science museum where we had some hands on activities with sound and light. We also had Oliver's mum come in as our mystery reader and she read us a non-fiction book for a change! On Thursday we had our assembly where we learned the squad of the month (Narwhals!) Lastly we had our birthday party for Oliver and Dale on Friday. A very busy week indeed!
Our read-a-thon has finished and I am pleased to announce that G1B raised 46,075 yen for our charity One Tree Planted! This means as a class we are responsible for planting 461 new trees in the world! To do this the students read for the total of 2305 minutes over the last two week which is a fantastic effort. We had a few special events this week. We had our field trip to the science museum where we had some hands on activities with sound and light. We also had Oliver's mum come in as our mystery reader and she read us a non-fiction book for a change! On Thursday we had our assembly where we learned the squad of the month (Narwhals!) Lastly we had our birthday party for Oliver and Dale on Friday. A very busy week indeed! We started our new unit on ordinal numbers this week. We began with the numbers themselves in both numeral and written form (with extra practice for homework!) The students practiced ordering the numbers before moving onto orders based on a starting point. This introduced X from the left/right and was a little tricky. We have used a lot of physical objects (and even the students) to model order and how to describe something's position. We also looked at positioning words such as, 'next to', 'between', 'last' and other prepositions. Our descriptive writing unit continued this week and we have fleshed out our Roald Dahl descriptive words wall in class. Most students are now revising their texts and trying to use this new vocabulary in their writing. This is proving a little difficult as Roald Dahl's words are packed with imagery and the students have to really think on the meaning of the word to make sure that it fits into their sentences (and if it makes sense.) 'Unbelievable' is one word that is causing problems (most students are using it as a synonym for 'good')and a lot of them are figuring out if they could use 'colossal' for their revised draft (it's their favourite word so far!) We will have a few more lessons with teacher assistance before the students will try to write a descriptive paragraph from the beginning by themselves. This week in reading, we have continued our work with characters. In particular we have been putting ourselves in our characters' shoes by imagining what they are thinking in certain situations. For the first lesson we looked at, 'Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.' by Judith Viorst. We used the structure of, 'If I were Alexander, I would be thinking _____' to describe what might be going through his head. We moved onto more direct comparisons with our own experiences with, 'David gets in trouble' by David Shannon. The students compared the situations where David is in trouble to where they got in trouble for doing something similar. This led to a very 'colourful' class discussion........ We only had time for one science lesson this week (apart from a test on Thursday.) The students had their first look at a system (something engineered to do a task.) In this open ended activity, students used a spoon gong system to answer the question: How does the sound travel from the source to the receiver? After 5 minutes of experimenting to figure out how to actually use the spoon gongs, students found that the sound vibrations were traveling up the string the spoon was attached to into the cup. Some groups of students went further and found that the cup amplified the sound to make it louder. The students had in fact made a very basic speaker system! We have one more open ended task to finish before we leave the topic of sound and spend the next 2 weeks looking at the properties of light. This week's prize draw winner was Sophie! She has chosen to swap seats with someone for the week.
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