The term is off and running with a bang!
Our excursion on Monday to the zoo was very enjoyable. Thank you very much to all of the parents who gave up a day and helped supervise groups of children. It was very much appreciated. I do hope you recived your thank you card on Friday.
The children all had a great time and did some amazing recording about animal habitats. They were able to share their recording with their animal groups, working together to make a poster of their learning as a follow up activity in class. If you’ve seen the work on seesaw I’m sure you’ll agree that they did a great job.
We have begun our unit of Inquiry into homes, whilst we are learning about animal homes, we will also be learning about our homes and different homes around the world. We will be looking for similarities and differences across the neighbourhood and the globe.
Did you know that we start every morning in animal groups? The children worked together to choose their groups earlier in the year and we are now at the stage where we do a great deal of learning and problem solving activities in our groups.
Each morning we spend time journaling about our experiences with our group. The writing that is produced has improved so much since parents had a look in journals at the student led conferences last term.
One of the things that we are currently working on in our writing is the use of adjectives or describing words. Children are asked to include a word that describes colour, a size word, a shape word and a feeling word. We are all getting really good at using descriptive language to make our writing more interesting.
On Friday, we had a representative from the Commonwealth Bank who visited our classroom for the Money Smart Program. She talked about safe places to keep your money at home and at school. We were able to name and identity the notes and coins that make up our Australian currency.
On Friday afternoon we were also lucky enough to have one of our parents visit our class and bring along a few of his homing pigeons. He talked to us about how to care for them, their diet and their habitat. Using an app on his phone we were able to let them go and know exactly when they arrived home.
We have had a great start to the term and yes I’m going to say it again! We have another busy term ahead of us. 😊
Just a reminder that there is a pupil free day Friday week 3, that’s this week! There will be no fruit sharing this week, I will check sight words on Thursday and Friday show and tell people will share on Thursday of this week.