Greeting Friends and Family,
Another fully packed week has passed. Students are increasing their awareness of routines and expectations and are doing excellent with assessments and goal setting. To see photos from this week, please click here.
What We Did in Week 2:
- Math:
- Using last week’s fast fact assessment, students graphed their results and used this information to make their first round of math goal setting. Many want to increase their knowledge and speed involving their fast facts of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
- Students took to the white boards and worked in teams to solve magic triangles. In doing this, we applied our knowledge of the new vocabulary word, decomposition, and recognized strategies in problem solving.
- Students learned four new math games to help assist with their knowledge of place value as well as their fact fluency – BUMP to practise addition & spelling, Spinner games related to finding 10 more or less than a number, modified versions of the popular Yahtzee games based on Place Value of whole numbers, Heads Up/War game to practise +, -, x and ÷
- Problem solving skill – Students changed their seating based on height order in which they had to come up with a way to do this quietly which included arranging themselves in a line according to their heights and filling up seats in the order of their increasing heights.
- Language & Integrated Unit of Inquiry:
- WIDA speaking assessments were taken
- Reading assessments are being ticked off
- Beginning to tune-in to ATL’s- Approaches to Learning. During game play, students get a chance to interact with their peers, boosting their communications , teamwork, and sportsmanship- invaluable skills that extend beyond the classroom! Our whiteboard work help students develop communication, thinking, and their perseverance skills.
- Students did a fun write up on ‘All About Me’. Students got to choose the amount of M&M’s they needed and as a consequence, they had to write as many sentences as the number of M&M’s they had scooped out. They also had a sip of 7-UP with a consequence which meant all their sentences should be more than 7 words each.
How You Can Help at Home
- Spend some time with your child reading their FMJ, reviewing their math goals and writing your reply for this week. Once you know where they want to go, encourage and help them be successful. FMJ’s are free writes where your students have a chance to reflect and remember about the past week’s activities. This is a challenging task and they work hard to express themselves. Please take the time to respond in an appreciative and encouraging manner.
- Ask them about the math games they learn and play it with them. Ask questions and have discussions. Kids love to tell you about things if given an opportunity.
- Have a shared reading experience. You read a page, then they read a page
WORTH REMINDING:
- Please bring your headphones and ipads fully charged for the WIDA assessments starting Sunday.
- ASA’s start this week from 10th Sep – 3 to 4 pm
Worth Repeating:
- Healthy lunch & snacks, please
- Sustainability practices: Please send reusable water bottles and kindly avoid one-time use plastic.
If you have any questions about this or anything else school related, please do not hesitate to contact us via email at: a.norman@abisoman.com or s.raghuraman@abisoman.com or s.albalushi@abisoman.com
Have a lovely weekend.
Thanks & Regards
Ms Amy Norman, Ms Srikala Raghuraman & Ms Suad Al Balushi
