Goodbye to 2019, hello 2020!

Well done to every one who participated in the Talent Show today. It was amazing to see children dancing with confidence!

This week I introduced subtraction to the class. We used counters and ten frames to learn about 'taking away' and then used a number line and pens to count down the number line.

In phonics we learnt about words starting with /dr/ and revised /br/ once again. Our sight words were: who, new, pretty and will.

As our unit of inquiry was about sharing resources and caring for the planet, when we went to the Takakiyabashi park on Thursday we all put on some glvoes and picked up rubbish. All the students worked hard and picked up cigarette butts, plastic, paper and cans. Sadly the park was really dirty!

There are 4 pages of homework for the holidays as well as their RAZ book to read. I hope you get a nice rest and enjoy your holiday!
Happy new year!
Ms Rachael

 

Math time

                                              ELC assembly where we danced to YMCA.

 

Today's party for Keita and Diti's birthdays, and a goodbye party for Kunimitsu who is leaving Abroad. 

We finishing Unit 3: Sharing resources helps the world.

Today we completed our final assessment for the inquiry unit. This week we learnt about the different resources that countries have, and the children had to choose a country and make a poster to advertise the resources of their country. This morning we set up the classroom as a trading room where the children sat at a table with their poster and had to encourage the other children to come and get resources that they needed. This is what the posters looked like:
For example, one child did Australia so she had lots of fruit, wheat, soy beans and meat. But she didn't have clothing, cars, trains or oil. So she went to countries such as the USA, South Korea, Japan and Mexico to find those things. Another child had China, so he had clothing, trains, cars, rice and toys. So he went to India, Russia and South Africa to get oil, diamonds, meat and trains. The children we told that they needed to get all the important resources that their country needed to survive. We had talked about 'needs and wants' in a previous lesson and they were reminded of that before the activity started. By the end, the children should have had all the essential resources such as a variety of food, oil, transportation, materials to build houses and clothing.
This week's sight words were: sat, away, please, ran and what. In phonics we did the blends /gr/ and /br/.
In maths, we learnt about doubles and number bonds.