Rainy season has arrived!

After a rainy morning on Monday we made the most of the sandpit at the park and everyone loved making things with wet sand. Taz, Yushou and Keita had a takoyaki shop and Rudraksh, Diti and Manish were making Mt Everest with a tunnel.

That day we revised our short vowel sounds and on Tuesday we did a cut and paste activity where there students had to make the 3 letter word using the picture as a clue. On Thursday, we played Rhyming Bingo in which I would call out a word that rhymes with one of their pictures, and they had to put a counter on it. If they got 5 in row they had to shout Bingo!

In math, they worked in pairs to do an activity where they had to count how many objects they found in the picture and work out the addition answer. It was tricky for most children as the answers were over 10. Also, they found it hard to find all the objects in the picture. We also did simple addition using a number line.

We read a book called The Gift of Nothing for our unit of inquiry. It was a story about a cat who can't think of anything to get for his friend. He goes to the store and looks at all the cool things but decides he will give his friend a box of nothing. His friend doesn't understand the gift so the cat explains that he is the gift, because friends are more important than material possessions. Rudraksh suggested that maybe the box was also the gift, because what child doesn't love a box to play with?

We also read a book called Dylan the Doctor. It was about a doctor who was always caring for his friends but then he got so tired. So his friends showed that they were caring and put him to bed and looked after him. We talked about responsibilities that different people have such as doctors, teachers, police officers and firefighters. We also read a book called Be Kind about a girl who gets laughed at by her classmates and another girl thinks about how she can help her feel better. 

For art and craft we did some painting to make a butterfly by folding it in half and then imprinting one pattern onto the other half.

Finally, Friday was Japanese Culture Day and everyone looked very cute in their yukata and jinbei. I'll post the photos on Seesaw.