What a busy week we've had, celebrating stories and illustrations and even dressing up as our favourite book characters. We had a number of mystery readers and were joined by author Fleur Vella-Chang who read her story Mabel Moves to Singapore. The children enjoyed making connections to places they have been to in Singapore and food they have tried. They even had some illustration tips on how to draw the characters from her story.
We also spent time working on our own Literacy skills, exploring letters and sounds in both reading and writing activities. It has been wonderful to see the confidence that the children are showing when reading books and the sense of pride and accomplishment that they have when reading with increasing independence.
Our mathematics activities have allowed the students to explore shape and recognise the properties of different shapes. Through the use of different materials, the children have experimented with making different shapes, creating new ones, tessellations and creating pictures by identifying shapes in art and everyday things.
During our Unit of Inquiry explorations, the children chose books about transport from the library to find out about different ways to move. They spent time looking at the pictures and thinking about why we use different transport for different things. Children then applied their knowledge of shape and transport to help them to make their favourite mode of transport from junk materials. Spatial awareness and safety were key skills the children thought about during their construction, whilst also demonstrating their creativity.
As a class we have been thinking about being respectful to others around us. We all thought about ways that we can show respect to people -
Viggo received the Learner Profile certificate for showing the attitude of respect for applying the above ideas to his time at school this week. Well done, Viggo!
- listen
- be kind
- don't hurt
- play nicely
- help people.
Viggo received the Learner Profile certificate for showing the attitude of respect for applying the above ideas to his time at school this week. Well done, Viggo!