Yay, finishing our first IB unit

This week is the last week of our first inquiry unit: Who We Are. The central idea, "Communication with others impacts our relationships" has been the focus and now we are finalising our assessment to see what they children learnt. One of the last activities we did was a human knot in groups of 7. The children had to untangle themselves without letting go. They found it tricky but it was fun.

The final assessment was a massive clean up challenge on Friday. When we went to the park, someone (Ms Aurora) came in and messed up our classroom on purpose and when we came back, I told the children a big earthquake had messed it up. They believed me and straight away they went to work tidying everything up. I was really impressed that it only took them 10 minutes to pick up all the toys.

In phonics, we have continued to practise our short vowel sounds every morning. This is something we did on Thursday.

For math, we have continued with our regular counting up to 100 as well as some simple addition using dice.

Our field trip to Nilfrel in Suita was a lot of fun, the animals were amazing and all the children loved the pigmy hippos. Of course, it was a long and tiring day so Mr James and I were very happy that the children didn't complain too much and walked a long way to the park for lunch.