Weekly Update – T1W2 | Mrs Sim's Class

Dear Parents,

I can’t believe it is Friday already. Time really does fly when you are having fun!

I would like to begin by saying thank you to all who joined the curriculum meeting yesterday. I hope it was informative and not too overwhelming. There was a lot of information to take in 🙂 It was so lovely to meet you all in person.

Let’s take a look at what we have been learning this week! 🙂

In English, we have been enjoying reading lots of fiction stories as a class and discussing what we liked about them as well as relating them to our own experiences. Our favourite was “The day the crayons quit”. It is a fantastic book!

During our “Work on Writing” rotation, I have been encouraging the students to form their letters carefully and remember their capital letters and full stops. It has been great to see the children write about things that they enjoy. They have been doing a superb job practising our Daily 5 rotations and I can already see how effective it is. During our “Read to Self” rotation, I encourage the children to choose books that they can read themselves using the IPICk method below. This ensures that the children are reading books at the right level for them.

In IPC we learned the importance of knowledge and practising skills and how these both help us understand things better. We made some fantastic 3D glasses with the red=knowledge and the blue=skills. The children were sent a challenge from Professor Spark on Monday and we worked hard to complete it throughout the week using the knowledge and skills we had. The children did a great job and Professor Spark was impressed. We will be finishing up the Brainwave unit next week. I have sent home a “Sleep and Food Diary” that we made together in class as we are learning how to take care of our brains. The children can add in their food each day and also colour in when they go to sleep and wake up. I thought it would be a nice activity to discuss how important sleep and healthy eating is! 🙂