Haaaappeeeee Friday! 🙂
Today I would like to start the update by sharing a moment of proudness I had today. Two weeks ago, we began working on our ‘destination’. It started with a journey which we call “Positive Pathways”. Our class pathway supports behaviour and helps children work together to reach goals in the class that we may be struggling a little with. Our destination was … “Not to ‘erupt’ (interrupt) the teacher or friends on the carpet. We read the book “My mouth is a volcano” and we decided as a class that blurting things out on the carpet is sometimes a problem for us as we cannot wait and really want to tell the teacher everything!! 😉 This was resulting in some friends not being heard.
We had to overcome some obstacles, and talk about solutions to the problems we were having…(being silly, talking over friends, not putting our hands up etc).
I have watched the children work as a team, like a little family. They have talked things through and worked on this goal together and it has been an absolute delight to see them reach the destination today. They now sit and wait their turn, raise their hands when they wish to contribute to discussions and really try their best not to talk over their friends on the carpet. I am so proud of them and love that we did it together! I can’t wait to see them complete our next journey!
We have been making lots of progress in our rotations, both in Maths and English. The small group instruction is working beautifully and the students are working well in their set groups.
In IPC, we took a trip around the world! We looked at wellness and explored different techniques from countries around the world. The techniques helped us to learn how we can keep our hearts and minds calm. We also created our own passports to remind ourselves that we can explore these techniques anytime. We also looked at important people from history and learnt about why they were so special. We discovered that even though they faced difficulties in life they were able to stay in the green zone and achieve amazing things.
In English, we listened to a new story about a fun day out. We voted, as a class, and most people agreed that a theme park was a great day out. We looked at plural and singular nouns and sequencers (First, next, then and finally) and began to think about how to write a recount.
In Maths, we worked on our Geometry unit. The Year 1’s learned all about faces and edges and explored both 3D and 2D shapes. They made their own towers and identified how many faces it had. They also designed their own houses using 2D shapes. The Year 2’s studied 3D shapes. They can now identify vertices, faces and edges and had fun making clues for their friends to guess what shape they had.
In PE, Ms Temple continued with the unit “My body, my health” and the children were introduced to a new game where they all turned into mice and had to run away to protect their tails!
Homework
Please make sure that homework is brought back in the folders. I know it is hard to remember, I sometimes do too- hehe. It just makes it easier for the children to take their homework home.
The students were all awarded Star of the Week today for reaching their destination. They should have their toys in their bags. Great week and again so proud of them all. I’ll finish up with this little quote. Have a great weekend!
