Weekly photos here.
What an exciting time we had! The students practiced for their Assembly in the Mazoon Tuesday and Wednesday morning. They were on stage today and it was a success. Thank you for all the parents who came to support their children. It is amazing how you being in the audience makes such a difference.
In UOI we have been practicing grid mapping to help the students get ready for designing their community. Remember our communities are supporting people and animals in being happy, healthy, and comfortable. Today we began the designing process in groups of four. Please ask your child if they have chosen a 2D representation or a 3D representation. If they have chosen a 3D representation ask them if they need trees or bushes for aesthetic reasons. Ask them if they need cubes or rectangular prisms for buildings.
In English students were introduced to glued sounds -ang, -ing, -ong, -ung, -ank, -ink, -onk, and -unk. Because the letters are in a glued combination, they make a slightly different sound. We began practicing our centers this week. Students were making CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words and recording the words in their writing journals. Students were making sentences using colorful semantics. They were reading books on EPIC and completing a SeeSaw activity. Next week we will practice again, to make sure they can independently complete the centers without teacher intervention. In two weeks we will add guided reading centers where the students will work with the teacher and CA in a guided reading group around their Raz-Kids level/PM level. Self-management skills are definitely in full effect in our classroom.
For maths we have been working with grid mapping this week. The students began with mapping the classroom. We then moved onto the playground. We took a walk around the play areas so they would mentally be able to envision where the main object of our outside areas are. These areas included playground #1, playground #2, lunch area, tree house, water park, the farm, the maze, donut, big red, ECC, LC1, LC2, and LC3. This process not only taught them about grids but introduced them to designing their community spaces.
Our Unit of Inquiry will be focused on completing our community spaces. At the end of the week we will decide as a group what two items we would really like to see added to the ABIS play areas. We will then write a letter to the head of the school explaining what we would like to add to ABIS and why. I can’t wait to see what his reply will be.
Next week for English we will be completing research on types of communities using nonfiction texts. The hope is that some of these nonfiction texts will inspire their community plans. We will look at the story, Skip is Sick. Students will then use their comprehension skills to answer questions about the story. In phonics I will be introducing the remaining r-controlled vowel sounds er, ir, and ur. These all sound the same and will require repetition and practice.
For maths we will review number bonds up to 20 and addition. We will also continue our work on 2D shapes. The goal is that next week we will complete an exit ticket on 2D shapes and move on to 3D shapes after the week holiday.
IMPORTANT DATES!!!
October 16th = End of ASA Term 1
October 23rd = Term 1 reports published