Day: December 4, 2020

Literacy

 

This week we have been reading our books. We have been reading in our groups and discussing the text. We have been developing our skim and scanning skills when answering questions about our text.

 

Mia- “We have been asking questions about the book. We answer these questions in sentences”.

 

We have been practicing our spelling words this week. We have continued to use the look, say, write, check strategy. After we have done this, we write the words with our eyes closed to help us visualise them.

 

Belle- “We were doing rainbow writing to practice our spelling words”.

 

Maths

 

In maths this week, we have continued to develop our addition skills. We can use a number of strategies to support us calculate the answer. We can partition numbers, count on with our finger or use a number square or sticks.

 

Sai- “We were adding numbers together. I used a 100 square to help me”.

Aaron- “we were doing dice addition”.

 

IDL

 

 

We were learning about the Viking Gods this week. We really enjoyed learning about them and sharing our knowledge of the Viking God’s Thor and Loki.

 

This week we also enjoyed designing and painting our Christmas baubles.

We have been learning to use apostrophes for possession.  We practiced our debating skills (about deforestation).   CW

We learned of the features of a Discussion text.  We now that in the introduction we do not write our opinion we only talk about what the issue.  MG

For Numeracy, we have been revising on all the four operations and we were working out Time intervals. CE and AF

We have also been practicing our Christmas Poem. TN

We learned about tessellation/tiling this week. We worked out that some shapes were better than others for tiling (remember you can’t overlap or leave spaces). Rectangles, squares, triangles and even hexagons were good but circles were not. We created our own tiling patterns and some were fabulous!

It was really good fun but challenging! – Derry

My tessellation turned into a 3D drawing! – Erin R

It was quite challenging because the shapes had to be the same size. – Chloe

It was tricky but we got the hang of it in the end. – Summer

 

Have  read to see the fun things we have been up to this week!

Fun in the snow

Max – “We were making snowmen!”

Charli Mae – “We were working in a team to roll the snow to make a snowman”

Jordon – “Don’t throw snowballs because it might be dangerous”

Elizabeth – “When I was outside in the snow I was happy because I was having fun”

P.E.

Connor – “We went outside to do circuits”

Mark – “We were running on the spot, doing star jumps, lunges, squats and windmills”

Jayden – “It started to rain so we went inside and did some yoga”

Writing

Andrew – “We wrote about why Christmas is important”

Emily – “Christmas is great because you get to put up your Christmas tree”

Vrishti – “Christmas is great because you get to put a star on top of the tree”

Louie – “Christmas is great because you get to eat candy canes”

Stop Frame Animation

Euan – “We went with Mrs Buntin to make a stop frame animation. We moved the little characters and then took lots of little pictures of them”

Sophie – “It was fun. I am looking forward to seeing it finished”