ELA
Spelling - words this week focused on the "y as long i" sound. We also reviewed the other ways to make long i in words such as igh, ie.
Reading - We continued to talk about characters and looked at how they are feeling throughout the story and how we can identify those feelings and relate them to ourselves.
Everyday many children recited poems for the class. I'm so proud of the enthusiasm of the children to participate.
Writing - Students finished their animal acrostic poems and worked on acrostic poems using their own names.
As part of our new topic in Social Studies students all wrote letters to students in an American primary school. We are looking at how people are the same and different around the world and hope to learn new things from the pen pals in Mulberry Elementary School in Ohio. Children also drew things that they liked to celebrate with their family. We will be asking children to present a poster in the coming weeks to share a family tradition with the class. More details will follow shortly.
We looked at how soils differ by properties of colour, and texture and reviewed what we know about the water on Earth.
On Wednesday we took a field trip to the local planetarium. For some children this was their first planetarium experience. We learnt about constellations, the stars we could see if there were less city lights and even "took a trip" to Canada where we could see the Northern Lights and compare the position of the stars compared to Tokyo.
Our Mystery Reader this week was Alexis' mother, Miwa. She read a traditional Japanese story, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. Thank you very much to Miwa for coming to read to our class.
On Friday our Poetry Week finished with our school wide Poetry Slam. Our representatives to join the slam were Gaius, Cocona and Harlow. While judges were deliberating some other G1b students also stood up in front of the audience and recited their poems. Well done to everyone for writing, learning and reciting Acrostic poems. A link to the performance videos will be found on the school news page on Weebly.
Larissa