Dear Parents,
I hope you have all had a great week. It seems to have flown in!
It seems to be the season for colds and coughs. A few members of the class have been feeling a little under the weather this week. I hope we are all back to good health soon!
In IPC this week we have been exploring the zones of regulation and learning about techniques we can use to help us stay in the green zone, which is optimal for good learning. I hope that the children can begin to identify how they feel and in turn use some of the strategies we learned. We looked at what we can try to do when we feel angry, silly, sad or tired. I will be introducing our zen den next week as a further option for when children need some time to self-regulate.
We painted some lovely artwork on Monday after looking at Mark Rothko’s work. The children enjoyed using watercolour paints and mixing them to create colours that represented emotions.
Literacy rotations are going well and the Year 1’s should be proud of the progress they have made so far. Seeing them write and read their first words was a lovely moment and I felt very proud of them. All full marks on their first official spelling test today too!
Year 2 students worked hard on their reading and writing in their guided reading sessions and reviewed some of the sounds they were struggling a little with (cious, tious, tion).
In English, the students learned about diaries and the days of the week. We looked at what people include in a diary. The main focus was on where, when and how questions. We created presentations using pictures prompts.. “I went to the waterpark on Monday by bus. It was a fun day!” The Year 2 students created their own charts which they first filled in and then created their own sentences.
We finished off our Number unit in Maths this week and will begin our new unit “Geometry” next week.
Year 1 students learned how to write the numbers from 1-10. This was a difficult objective but with the help of some toy cars and a tuff tray we tried our best to match the numbers and then find the letters to write the numbers on our whiteboards. The homework is to practise both the formation and the written form, however do not worry if they cannot write the numbers well. It is just to let them become familiar with them at this point. The students were also introduced to odd and even numbers and we spent Wednesday and Thursday looking at and dividing numbers into the two categories. We will work more on this and I have sent home a worksheet to help review them at home also. Year 2 students this week reviewed odd and even numbers, sequences and completed two short review assessments to go over the material they have studied thus far.
In PE, the students worked on creating their very own journeys using various equipment. They had to imagine going through a forest, a tunnel or a cave. They came up with some very creative journeys and we all loved watching them. We of course finished off the week with lots of fun games today. We had to have a little chat about teamwork and hope to improve on this next week during game time. 🙂
That’s all for this week. Hope you all have a lovely weekend and do something nice with the family.
P.S Sorry for the quality of some of my photos.
Take care!
Mrs Sim