During this past week in literacy we have continued learning about fables by reading fables and thinking about the moral (lesson) of the story. The students have worked on their own retelling of the ‘The Lion and the Mouse’ by drawing or writing on an 8 box piece of paper. Retelling is both an important writing and reading strategy to build our comprehension and writing skills. The students also used a graphic organiser to organise their thinking about a special event which happened during the summer, then they used this organiser to write their own recount of the event. This was our writing assessment benchmark which shows us what your child know about writing in English, such as: sentence fluency, organisation, use of conventions (capital letters, punctuation, etc). This will inform my planning in what we learn over the next few months to build our writing skills.
Your child brought home the letter about RAZKids and how to log-in. Please keep this paper in a safe place for regular referral. Your child is expected to read for at least 20 minutes in English everyday and this is our online portal to access reading books. If your child has access to authentic books, then that is great and counts towards the home learning time. Very soon, I will be revisiting your child’s level of reading and perhaps be changing their level, so please watch out for that.
In maths, we have practised mental maths by learning about ‘Leaping numbers’ which has us identifying patterns in a sequence of numbers. We have also reviewed our maths assessment in order to think about our numeracy learning goals. We have identified patterns on the growing patterns we had built the previous week. For data handling, we read the book, ‘Chrysanthemum’ by Kevin Henkes where the character learns to love her own name. From there we counted the letters in our own name, created a tally chart and have identified the number of letters in our classmates’ names. We will then make further tally charts which will then feed into creating bar graphs.
During our UOI time, we discussed the question: ‘What is culture?’ then created a mind map of our answers, plus added some new questions. We will continue working off this mind map to further our inquiry about ‘Who we are’.
The students have been reminded to bring in their ‘Shoebox Autobiography’ on Sunday to share with each other.
Please see photos here.
Next week:
Sunday: sharing our ‘Shoebox Autobiographies’
Monday: swimming
Ongoing: WIDA speaking assessment
Next week:
Literacy: speaking, listening and developing presentation skills with our UOI, phonics activities, handwriting practise, independent reading and beginning to form our guided reading groups.
Maths: continuing using ‘Leaping numbers’ to identify number patterns, building tally charts and creating bar graphs
UOI: sharing our ‘Shoebox Autobiography’, discussing our central idea and building our understanding of culture by creating a chart of what people say and do within cultures.