We really try this year to work together as a team. We know that if we work well together, that together we will learn. Each week Mrs Matos will give us a team building challenge, so that we can practise working together. This weeks challenge involved plastic cups, an elastic and string. We worked in groups of four. Each person in the group was given a piece of string, our string was tied to the elastic. Using only the string, we needed to build the tallest tower with the plastic cups. To start off we found it very difficult, but with a growth mindset, communication and team work we managed to build our towers.
It was Maths week this week, and we took a hands on approach to help us with numbers. We have been working on 7 digit numbers, we’ve been looking at the different ways that numbers can be written , such as in words, standard form and expanded form. We’ve been looking at the place value of numbers and rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. We took our learning outdoors this week, we worked in groups to collect natural resources to create a ‘big’ number. We used sticks, stones and leaves to create our number. Using the number we created we, wrote the number in words, we showed the place value of each digit and lastly we rounded our number to the nearest 10, 100, and 1000. During class we had various place value and rounding stations set up. We worked in pairs and used concrete materials to answer questions based on numbers. Our last Math challenge this week, was to create as many shapes possible using just one large piece of string, which you could not cut, with team work we raised to the challenge with some great results.
Through a variety games, such as word match and scrabble we practiced our spelling words and sound patterns.
We’ve been working hard over the last few weeks to create our French vocabulary flash cards, this week we worked with a partner and using our flash cards we practiced the pronunciation and meanings of the words we have learnt so far.
One of our PE focuses this term is going to be basketball, to get us prepared we are practicing different skills that we will be using. This week we focused on our dribbling skills. It was important that we kept our eye on the ball, and tried to keep control of the ball, so that it didn’t go all over the place.
We’ve had a busy week, but we will be looking forward to it all again on Wednesday, when we back from our long weekend break.
P6A and Mrs Matos
