Literacy

We were learning about the phoneme ‘ee’, and the different ways we may see it spelt in texts (ie, ei, y, e, ea); Aibak

On Wednesday, we were making some notes in preparation for writing a diary entry next week.  (Tanzeel) We are going to write a diary entry from a slave as they are crossing the Middle Passage (Atlantic Ocean); Hafsa

We’re learning about the British Empire. At Miss Cohen’s group we looked at pictures and spotted clues and keywords about the experience of being on a slave ship; Mimi

Mr Stewart was showing us some diary entries. We learned that it can be in first person. It can be long or short and it can be quite detailed or in simple note form; Ryan, Dilya

Some people describe where (the setting) they are writing from when writing a diary; Saad Soofi

 

We were reading an extract from a book titled ‘Lose your Mother’; Zainab

We were trying to redraft the sophisticated blurb written by the NY times using child friendly language; Hussain

We were connecting, hot-seating (we brainstormed questions that we would like to ask a slave and Bosman, the leader of the Dutch Empire), predicting and understanding.

Numeracy

We learned how to find the area of a triangle. We do this by using the formula; half (0.5) x base x height; Abeera

We used our knowledge of area and applied to finding the area of a parallelogram; Anum

We’ve been converting; 10s, 100s, 1000s.

If you multiply a number, by 10, the decimal point moves one place to the right.

If you divide a number, by 10, it moves one place to the left.

It teaches you about decimal numbers; Maidah, and also place value; Hussain

 

We made our own batch of homemade soup in prep for the Wee Sleep Out (Laiba, Hafsa, Amina, Dylan, Aibak, Umar, Musa, Saad) using onions, sweet potato and carrot. YUM!

We watched a screening of Isaac’s film, ‘Eleven’, on Wednesday afternoon. Here’s a summary of our comments, what we enjoyed about it and what we learned from watching it;

“It was really funny” – Mimi

I liked the part when he was singing at the end, and then said “that’s bad, we’re leaving” – Almaas

“When he asked Siri if he could fart” – Zainab

“I liked seeing when Isaac had a tantrum” – Aibak

 “Isaac was off for a week when he was in hospital”  – Dylan “Now he’s able to walk and walk to the sofa in Class 2”

“The chair in the house that helps you to access upstairs” – Saleeha

 We noticed Isaac’s need for routine. He didn’t like it when there was a change, and got quite upset.

“Is there going to be a sequel?” – Saad Khan

“I’ve seen many movies produced in this school, but I have never seen a film that feels like you are watching an actual live film; it had 5 star comedy, 5 star masterpiece – I loved it! It had time in it, it had structure (5secs each clip), it was phenomenal!!” – Saad Khan