In science this week we finished up our unit on animals. Students finished the covers to their research projects about their favourite animals. We also started on our new science unit which is The Earth's Resources. We will learn the many kinds of resources we have on Earth and how we can help save these resources. On Friday we discussed how we could use the Earth's resources to build our houses. We started making small clay 'bricks' that will be used to build shelters in a new group project. Everyone agreed this was a fun way to end a Friday afternoon and in total we made 709 small bricks. Thanks to Anthony for inspiring us to add up all the ones, tens and hundreds. Our field trip to the Tokyo Water Works Museum next week will further explore water as a resource and how we can conserve it and keep it clean. In Social Studies students talked about the jobs people do and drew pictures and wrote about what they would like to be when they grew up. We have now finished off our unit about Work in the Community and will move onto a new unit entitled Traditions We Share. It is a timely unit as we celebrate Chinese New Year and Japanese Culture Day over the next two weeks. Children participated in three crafts to celebrate Chinese New Year - lantern making, writing secret wishes for their red envelopes and making Chinese zodiac head bands. After a snack of shrimp crackers and braided fried bread we headed upstairs to watch a Taichi performance, listen to Anthony's grandmother play the harmonica as part of a riddle game organised by Ayana and Sumika's mothers. Children were in awe of Tai chi master's demonstration ( sorry about video quality) Thanks to all the parents who helped organise this event. It was a fun celebration. In ELA we continued work on getting to know characters in the stories we read. Children looked at what characters did and said and how knowing these things can help us know the characters and make predictions about what they might do next. We looked at making past tense verbs and writing sentences with these verbs. Children soon realised that there are certain groups according to the way verbs behave when changing to their past tense form.
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