Writing

During Writer's Workshop students have been learning about what makes a sentence (sentence structure). We have been exploring the importance of capital letters, finger spaces and punctuation and how to use these writing conventions in our writing. Independently we have been looking through books and identifying parts of a sentence.

Spelling

Spelling experiences this term have included learning about onset and rhyme, and the word families ‘at’ and ‘ug’. Students are exploring the pattern of rhyme, and by changing the onset they are able to spell and write different words, such as mug, bug, dug, tug or cat, mat and chat. They are noticing the short vowel letters and then applying this knowledge to spell CVC words by using the sounding out strategy. 

Reading

Each morning during Reader’s Workshop, we have been learning how to sound out words. First, we watch our teacher as they show us how we sound out a word we don’t know. We do this by making the sounds of the letters and blending the sounds together. We listen for the word we can hear! Then we practise sounding out together as a class where we write down the word we don’t know on a mini whiteboard, and then sound it out. Lastly, we practise being independent readers by doing the same activity again but by ourselves with a quality or levelled text. 

Inquiry

During our Inquiry sessions we have been learning about special events. We discussed the importance of these events in other cultures and talked about why particular events are special to others. To continue our understanding of special events, we represented them on post it notes and in picture format.

Zones

During Zones of Regulation lessons we have been exploring different emotions that link to each colour. Students acted out different emotions and identified ways our face and body would look like in each zone. We also identified and reflected on events or ‘triggers’ that push our emotions into the yellow, blue and red zone. This is to help gain awareness of our emotions and work on problem solving to avoid those triggers.

Number

In Mathematics, during number, we have been learning about the numbers nine and 10. We have been focusing on number formation and representing numbers in a variety of ways, such as tally marks, ten frames and pictures.