Welcome back! I hope you had a restful holiday and are reading for the next few weeks of learning with your child.
This week we have been as busy as usual with our learning. We have begun a new Unit of Inquiry: Where we are in place and time. During this unit we will be finding out about our needs and wants, using these concepts to look at how people around the world build different types of homes depending on the environment and the resources available. We will discover the features of particular biomes and how these features allow for people to design and build their homes to shelter a family.
It would be exciting to have a parent or friend visit our class to tell us more about homes, perhaps you know about designing a home for a place, have built your own home or can speak about the similarities or differences in homes. Please do let me know and we would love to have you tell us more by presenting to our students.
Please see information about our new Unit of Inquiry here.
To finish off our last unit of inquiry, we held a gallery walk where the groups presented their community space, showed their reflection and then assessed their own learning.
We have begun our place value unit by recognising numbers using the suffix ‘teen’ and moving on to identifying tens and ones and we can make all the numbers to 100 using this concept. We are making numbers by modelling using a variety of resources such as, base tens, counters and number lines. We are constructing numbers and also taking them apart to further our understanding, ie, 25 = 20 + 5 or 2 tens and 5 ones. This is essential groundwork to move on to 2-digit addition and subtraction.
Numbers greater than 100 Family Letter
During literacy this week, we have continued with making new words using phonics and then sorting these words into word families (have the same ending sound, ie it, sit, split, etc). We have worked on our writing skills by reviewing what makes a complete sentence. We have practised writing complete sentences in our writing journals. Then we have looked at organising our writing through reading a story, then retelling that story following the order of beginning, middle and end. We have also practised our handwriting with the letter ‘a’. In guided reading this week, we have reviewed the reading strategies we have learned and practised so far this academic year, then moved into our reading groups to be introduced to new books. Some of us are reading fiction books and some of us our reading non-fiction books and learning about the features of both genres.
Please see photos here.
Next week:
Literacy:
- using phonics to create new words and sort these into word families
- practise handwriting skills
- guided reading focusing on particular reading strategies, comprehension skills, grammar and word word
- using the trait of organisation to view our own writing and see how it flow in an order
Maths:
- mental maths focusing on skip counting forward and backwards
- recognising 2-digit numbers and how they can be represented
- practising constructing and deconstructing 2-digit numbers
- beginning to think about how we can use this knowledge in adding numbers to 100
UOI
- what do we know about homes and what do we want to know about homes
- types of homes around the world
- types of biomes around the world