Another week is over ...

It's been another great week:

I wanted to share our reading with you , in the hope that a connection would be made at home. 

1. Take the book for a walk before starting to read. 

• Discuss the cover and figure out the theme of the book.  Try to use vocabulary related to this topic as you chatter about the book.
• Look through the whole book and share the story through the pictures. This helps to have vocabulary ready when reading unfamiliar words. 
• See if any pictures are represented in the text on the page. 
• Look for any unfamiliar words which repeat themselves . Use strategies to decode these so when you do read the whole story through these words don't halt the fluency.

2. We have been reinforcing STRATEGIES when reading an unknown word. Can you child share these strategies with you ? They should be able to tell you which strategies they are using.

• Looking at the first and last letter. What seems a good fit ? br---k   could this be break, brick ?
• Pictures as cues. A word starts with p and there is a parrot on the page... does this help?
• Phonics (Your child should know this term) We use phonics in Reading and Word Study
• Looking for familiar words within words   eg Interesting
• Stretch out words . We know this as breaking a word in to syllables. Try clapping it out eg In - for- ma - tion
• Taking a guess based on the story so far. Encourage self correction.

In Number Talks we are continuing to use the monthly calendar to skip count between dates.

Problems such as : Today is the 6th and X's birthday is on the 26th , how many days until their birthday?  Would you count in ones, 2s or 5s?

We are also using coins to skip count by the denominations in Singapore. How would we make 10cents from the coins available ?  In this case skip counting by 2s and 5s.

In the main lesson we have continued with our Geometry stations. Allowing children to explore and inquire in to symmetry, tangrams and tessellations to explore repeating patterns. 

And you know what we are doing in UOS. Thank you so much for coming to the workshare on Thursday.  It was lovely to hear your feedback about Inquiry Learning, independence and teaching your child to be persistent.

What did you discover about the body, or about being in Grade 1, during our workshare ? 

Please add your thoughts here

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