This week we have been reading and writing all about Penguins!!!!
Everyone is becoming such strong readers, they worked in groups to do some reading comprehension!

In Daily 5 the students have shown fantastic independence and are taking charge of their own learning! During our Daily 5 time they are not making their choices between Work on Writing or Read to Self.

Students are creating their very own non-fiction penguin books! Throughout the week we have read some fiction and non-fiction books about penguins to learn what they can do, what kind of animals they are and what they have! This has been the topic for their work on writing time and they have been doing their very best!


In Math so far, with patterns, we have talked about how to copy, create and extend patterns. This week we discussed how to translate a pattern, this means we see a pattern, find the rule and show it in more than one way. An activity we did to try this we in groups students used manipulatives such as counters, farm animals and coloured blocks to create a pattern. Then the students swapped stations, figured out the pattern rule and created an action pattern that followed the same rules.

We also took some time to talk about making 10! This is a mental math strategy that we use to help us with addition and subtraction problems in the future!
We talked about which parts (making ten buddies) always go together to make 10.

In Social, we started discussing what a map is and how we can make them. We then created classroom maps that use symbols to show where things are in the classroom.
Following a legend we made as a class students mapped out our classroom.

 

In Science, we started talking more about hearing and did an experiment of guessing Whats in the Tin?! Students shook tins with various objects and tried to guess what was inside! They were pretty surprised!

BEACH DAY FUN!!