Week 7

Week 7

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NOTES : 

1. We've seen a number of creative musical instruments come in to class. The children have had a week to create these and they are all due on Tuesday.
2. The parent conference online sign up is now closed. Please contact me directly ASAP if you would still like to make an appointment to see me. 
3. Friday will be another Spirit Day. This time it's Pyjama day !

Dear 1MLN families,

 Here is a snippet of a week in the life of our class. I hope that it leads to discussions at home about the learning taking place.

Another week of achievements with the 1MLN superheroes this week.

This week in Reading Workshop we have been working on "reading like a river". I know that your child has been working on this at home. Please keep encouraging this , as I am finding that a little modelling and some encouragement has led to amazing results. Today some children read in front of the whole class, others read to their group due to time restraints.  Everyone captured their audience with expression, facial expression and pace.

The Communities unit resulted in an Amazing Race around the school. I'd like to thank Kim and the team of parents who came along to lead a team in exploring the school.  These photos are a collective result of the little and big people behind the class Ipod Touches.

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Ask your child how they came up with their team name. Perhaps they also have a chant to share with you.

Ask your child what they did to prepare for The Amazing Race .

Ask your child what activities they did at each station.

Ask your child if they got to know a classmate better whilst on the Amazing Race. How did this happen?

Ask your child how they felt when they had completed all the challenges on The Amazing Race.

During Number talks we are thinking about al the strategies to solve a problem. Some strategies work better than others but they are all worth considering when you are 6 and 7 years old. Eventually children become better at selecting an appropriate strategy from the outset, but this takes time and practice.  You might like to ask your child to share several strategies which they would use to solve     

                                                             8 + 3= 11       4 + 5 = 9         10 + 9 = 19 

We also changed our calendar as it is now October.

In Geometry we are considering the attributes of a shape.  We have been using a feely bag to hide shapes. We describe these shapes and the class tries to visualise the shape and name it. Perhaps you'd like to try at home.  You might like to ask if describing the size or colour are useful clues.

We're going to start breaking up shapes next week in to partitions and use the words quarter, half and fourth. This is a good introduction in to fractions.

How have these shapes been grouped ?

We are publishing our writing and this week some of the class wrote invitations inviting our buddies to a BOOK LAUNCH next Thursday morning...

They replied via email....

Dear Buddies

Thanks very much for our invitations - we'll definitely be there at your book launch. Can't wait.

Love from 

The Bees of the Hive xx (5KTL)

Oh, and to top the week off - don't forget to ask about our guest speaker. Miss Poonam's sister-in-law who has climbed Mt Everest . She has some UWC qualities !

Have a great weekend

Mary and Sathia