T2W11 – Weekly Update

Good Afternoon,

We have had a great last week of term 2. I can’t believe how fast time has flied so far. It has been a pleasure teaching the students this term and I hope they have had as much fun as I have had.

This week we have been very lucky to have a new Trainee Teacher in our class – Mrs Leah. She will be joining us in term 3 and she is already loved by all the students. We have been having great fun getting to know her.

In IPC this week, we finished up our unit on “Buildings”. It was a long but really fun unit which the children have all really enjoyed. We completed the international activities of the unit where we looked at where we all call home. As the students are from so many different countries it was interesting to discover, that despite the countries and homes being very different, they all had one thing in common – they were all ‘home’ to us. We did an activity where the students had to describe their home to a partner, using detailed adjectives and instructions. The partner had to draw what their partner described and then compare the pictures to see if they really did look like their own homes. I drew Mrs Leah’s house and then we looked at her home on Google maps. The children were so surprised to see how alike I had managed to draw it. (Yay teacher teamwork!)

We also looked at various 3D shapes and explored which ones would be the best for making structures. We looked at various boxes and tried to make our very own. The students worked hard to test which shape would be the best to making a building. They used A5 card and balanced it on top of their shape. We then used dice to pile on top of the card. The students counted how many dice the shape could hold before it collapsed. They got a little competitive but worked so well in their teams. We discovered that cuboids and cubes were really good 3D shapes to make structures with!

In English, we finished out unit on Explanation Texts. We looked at how to build a dolls house and used diagrams to help us write information about each step. They really did very well with this unit and are confident making sequences and using time connectives now. Yesterday we learned about the lifecycle of a caterpillar and the students made their own explanation texts. I was really impressed with the work that they produced. Well done!!

Penpals in Spain

We opened our second letters from our penpals in Marbella, Spain. Oh the excitement! 🙂 Even more so, as when they opened their letters they realized they had received a chocolate all the way from Spain. Some got ‘Euro note’ chocolates and others got coin chocolates! They enjoyed them with their lunch yesterday. We had fun with Mrs Leah opening them and reading them together. As part of our digital literacy class we are going to be focusing on writing emails so that we can learn to send emails to our friends in Spain too. It is such a lovely project that brings so much happiness to the children. Not only do they love opening their letters but they are practicing their reading and writing skills at the same time 🙂

Watching Mr Dunn’s students making their presentations.

RAT Tests

Tests were sent home with the students today but I am really sorry that I didn’t manage to give them to Alex, Rachael, Ana and Louis as things were a little hectic at the end of the school day. (They were on the first bus and I forgot about putting them in their bags- so sorry!). The school will be open over the holidays so if you wish to, you are welcome to drop by for the tests before school starts back on the 18th April 2022. My apologies.

I wish you all a very happy Easter Break and hope that you all have fun with your family. Stay safe!