I hope everyone had a wonderful long weekend. In Room 5, we have been terribly busy starting new projects and extending our learning on previously learnt concepts.
Mrs Taylor, who has been with us from Week 1 as a Pre-Service Teacher, finishes this week. We will really miss her and wish her the best of luck in her future teaching roles.
NUMERACY
In Mathematics we are developing our knowledge on doubles. This involves understanding what doubling a number means and working out sums that incorporate doubles, for example 3+3 =6.
We have
also been revising breaking apart numbers from 4 through to 10. This
entails starting with a whole number like 5 and breaking it apart into 0 and 5,
1 and 4, 2 and 3, 3 and 2, 4 and 1, 5 and 0.
LITERACY - PHONICS
Within phonics we are moving into sounding out initial blends/beginning sounds of words. These are gr, dr, br, cr, fr and tr, as in grape, drink, brim, crab, and trap.
Throughout the weeks we also constantly revise all our sight words from the
golden, red and blue words list, while being introduced to the new green sight
words of just, from, our, this week.
HASS
In Geography we have been consolidating our understanding of
our local community. We have been identifying what features contribute to a
community and which community members are important to the care of the people
who live in the local community.
SCIENCE
Science has been extremely exciting this week as we have
been investigating the needs of living things, such as animals. The
students have been researching the needs of their selected animal, focusing on
the areas of food, water, shelter/space and air. This has guided us into
creating an animal from clay, to which the students designed and built a suitable habitat/home for the animal to live in.
We will place some photos of our pets and their homes on the blog, once they are all complete.
Room 5 also welcomed 4 new pet chickens! They are very cute. We named them Roxie, Violet, Elsa and Chicky. The students in Room 5 have been learning how to care for the chickens by providing a clean cage, food, water, and warmth.
HEALTH
Throughout the term in Health, we have been learning about pedestrian safety. How to cross the road safely, where to walk to be safe from vehicles, what road signs we see and what they mean, as well as which side of the car is the safest to exit for children.
The students
loved taking part in role play around vehicle safety.
