Phonics
Roma: we are still learning the oa sound and the ai sound.
Amelia: they are tricky sounds to learn.
Carter: I was spelling the word train, it has the ai sound.
Amelia: I was spelling boat, it has the oa sound.
Lucas: there were socks filled with different things and your partner had to listen to the sound that it made and they had to tell me what the sound was.
Freya: we were practising writing sounds on the teacher whiteboard and the chalkboard. I was practising the k and p because they are a bit tricky for me.
We played this game to help us with our reading skills:
http://www.ictgames.com/cvcPop.html
Word Boost
Carter: Our word boost story was about a growing dinosaur.
Rojin: Glare means you look at someone with an angry face.
Michelle: scatter means if you drop something it would spread out
Roma: rip means you open something but not carefully.
Paul: gigantic means bigger than enormous.
Writing
Carter: There was a dentist in our classroom on Tuesday.
Lucas: we were writing about brushing our teeth.
Celine: we were writing instructions.
Shea: we used the words first, next and then.
Jane: you are not allowed to use the word I when you are writing instructions.
Numeracy
We have started learning about subtraction in our numeracy lesson. We loved the subtract with a pirate song to help us understand what subtraction is:
Shea: I liked doing the teddy bear game. You had to take away teddy bears. If there 5 teddy bears and you took away 2 you would have 3 left.
Anna: I liked the smashing the play-doh because I liked making 10. Then you had to roll the dice and whatever the dice landed on you had to smash that many. I had 10 and rolled a 5 and smashed 5 and I had 5 left.
Pati: I liked the tower game. You build a tower with 10 bricks and you had to roll a dice and if it was a 5 you would take away blocks. You would have 5 left.
Freya: I was playing subtraction games and adding games on the smartboards. There was a dragon adding game I liked.
Rojin: I liked bowling and you had to count how many you knocked over. You started with 10 skittles and I knocked over 6 and I had 4 left.
Michelle: On the computer there were balloons. One time there was 5 balloons and you had to pop 2 and there were 3 left.
Here is a link for the game:
http://www.abcya.com/subtraction_game.htm
Scott: I liked playing the bus. You had to roll the dice to see how many people you get. If you get an adding bit people get on your bus.
Igor: I liked playing the bus stop game with Shea.
Lucas: If you land on take away you have to take away people off the bus.
Topic
Lucas: we made a coat of arms.
Roma: it is a picture on a shield.
Shea: castles have different coat of arms.
Jane: I had a unicorn on my coat of arms.
Olivier: There was a heart on my one.
Anna: we are going to hang them up in our castle.
Check out next week’s homework menu for the link to make your own coat of arms. If you would like a head start on this activity. Here is the link to create your own:
http://www.makeyourcoatofarms.com/app.asp
Mara: I liked playing in the castle.
PE
Freya: I was doing handstands a back handstand and a forward handstand.
Carter: I done a vault and jumped onto the springboard and jumped on the platform and done it with no hands.
Roma: we were making a sequence.
Amelia: A sequence is more than 1 thing.
Anna: In my sequence I did a forward roll, then a balance and then a jump.
