A link to our swimming video is at the bottom of the page...
Please add words of encouragement to the class here...
We started off the week visiting our Big Buddies. They had finished a great writing unit and wanted to celebrate with us. This is a great opportunity for Grade 1 to become inspired, see higher level writing and to realise they also have some good writing skills. Grade 1 were asked to give their buddy 3 pieces of feedback : 2 stars ( positives) and 1 wish ( something to improve on). The buddies filmed our advice so they could look back on it and reflect.
Symmetry has continued to be popular . The whiteboard table is a great platform for inquiring in to our own symmetrical artwork.
On Monday mornings children have a chance to share their weekend with each other. Oliver loves inquiring and here he shows us a science experiment he was investigating at home....
Mystery Bags have been popular this week. These children were researching parts of the body and trying to make them out of craft materials around the classroom. More detail will be added when we research the circulatory system over the next 2 weeks.
Others decided to write poetry relating to 'Our Body' and some wrote little plays which they plan to perform to the class.
Have your heard of the artist Keith Haring? His artwork ties in very nicely with our UOS "Our Body". By using lines the artist can portray movement. We also focused on being patient and persistent. This artwork will take 4-5 lesson to reach its full potential.
Do books and iPADs go together ? They do in 1MLN.
Your child should have been reading with more expression at home as we have been working towards this at school. Some children even practised on the Wednesday holiday. Their efforts paid off as everyone recorded their reading on a Voice app x on the iPAD. They emailed it to me and I've been using the 'data' to set new targets in class.
You might like to teach your child to use a VOICE memo app on an iPAD or phone. It's amazing how reflective they have become. (You might like to try AUDIO BOO)
Next week we'll be looking more deeply in to "Readers Think and Talk about Books" - please use the questions in the front of your child's reading journal , or your own ideas, to encourage your child to think deeply about what they have read.
As a follow on from "shape" children in 1MLN are beginning to use the language of fractions. Some lucky children were learning our fractions from real life situations. I heard from one mum that afternoon tea in their house is being cut and served in fractions by a 1MLN boy at home these days ! Miss Ameer might have started that trend with her delicious 'Fractions Brownies' .
Not to be outdone , Miss Newbigin's maths group were extending their shape knowledge by using coding apps. To make a shape using coding you have to give mathematical directions, this takes a lot of spatial awareness. and thought The children who have explored these apps will teach their classmates how to use them at a later date.
We used 2 apps : HOPSCOTCH and DAISY the dinosaur.
1 more week of swimming ... here's what we do ....This link is clearer than the video below... (the original is very clear so if anyone has any advice please let me know)
http://viewpure.com/az4sqsAYueg
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