Spelling - words this week focused on more long e words (ee, ea). We reviewed all the different ways to make e sound in words.
Reading - We continued to look at the characters in the books we read by asking ourselves how the character is similar/different from ourselves. Students worked with reading buddies to track how a characters feelings changed throughout a story.
Writing - In the lead up to next week's poetry Slam students worked on their second acrostic animal poem following a similar process to the writing process. They chose which one they would like to do for the poetry Slam and will bring that poem home on Friday to practice over the weekend ready for recital in class on Thursday 8th, March.
Grammar - We read Punctuation Celebration and learnt that in addition to dates and letters we use commas when writing a series of things instead of repeating and several times.
On Thursday students dressed up as their favourite book characters. They brought their books to class and presented their costume choice and book to their friends.
We were treated to two Mystery Readers this week with Misha and Harlow's mums , Colleen and Stephanie. Misha's mum read Little Donkey Learns to Share, a timely story that followed on from our Notes of Kindness. Harlow's mum read the book People, a lead into our next Social Studies unit on Traditions We Share. Thank you both for sharing great stories with us.
We worked on the Mid Year Test over three days as a summary of all the learning we have done since the beginning of the year. The students generally did well. Areas that we will continue to work on in maths are addition, subtraction and making equations that are equal to each other. Please continue to practice addition to 10 and doubles facts at home. We practiced with Rocket Math on Friday.
We began our inquiry into Earth's Resources and focused this week on rocks and soil. Students all brought in rocks and fossils to share with the class in a group circle time. Then they took their rocks back to their tables and discussed with their groups how they could classify the rocks into different groups. Students observed the similarities and differences between the rocks they had collected. Some friends were keen to add to the supply of rocks and so they collected and washed some rocks from the park.
Larissa