Another short week for G1B but we had a very busy week indeed! On Friday we had our International Culture day and had a fantastic time. We watched presentations by the G2 students about their countries, learned about cranberries in America (a big thank you to Katherine's mum for a great presentation!) had a fashion show, watched Polynesian dances and Mr Mamadou perform and finished the day with a buffet lunch and a birthday party! A very busy day indeed! We started our new topic of addition to 10 this week. The main focus was the counting on skill. We identified which number is the greatest and counted on from there. For example: 3+5, we started at 5 then counted on by ones to reach the answer, 5-6,7,8. 3+5=8. We used the unifix cubes to model the parts of the sum but used 'rabbit ears' (fingers on top of our heads) for the counting on (which helps students begin to mentally visualise numbers and become less reliant on physical objects.) We continued with the writing process for our paragraphs this week. We ended up revising our work to make it more interesting and adding more details. The students focused on using adjectives and descriptive language to help make their writing more interesting. We also started to compile our work using Ms Allison's hamburgers again! Early next week our paragraphs will be ready to publish! We finished learning about reading in pairs this week and focused on sharing our impressions of a book, which parts we found funny, sad, confusing or thoughtful. We also looked at asked our reading partners thoughtful questions (rather than just straight yes/no questions). Our books we looked at were, Amy and Louis by Libby Gleeson, The Wrong Book by Nick Bland and The rules of summer by Shaun Tan, all excellent books to ask questions about and give our opinions on. We lost one day of science due to the International Culture day on Friday but we still managed to explore spoon gong systems! We found that we could amplify the sound a spoon makes when hit if we attach a string to it them put the string through a cup (try it at home!) This lead us to conclude that the sound waves were traveling up the string then being amplified by the cup. Next week we'll be solving the problem of how to send and receive messages on the same system! I'm sure most of you already know what we will be constructing........ Sayu! She was sick on Friday but she can claim her prize on Monday instead.
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