The children are completely absorbed by their “Passion Projects.” This week, we have recorded what we already know about our passions and thought about what we want to find out. Using the MacBooks, iPads, books etc we have researched our different passions and discovered many new and interesting facts. We are now deciding on the best ways to share our passions with an audience, exploring different ways of presenting ideas and thinking about props and visual aids that might make our presentations more interesting. The children should come home with a list of things they think might support them during their presentations next week and it would be great if you could help them with this.
We have already welcomed Kate (Georgie's mum) and Manish (Saanvi's dad) who shared their passions for reading and playing the guitar, and, by all accounts, they were a big hit! Thank you so much. If you have a particular passion that you might be interested in sharing, please contact us to arrange a time.
We have been blown away by the poems the children are creating across in our Writing Workshop sessions. They are enormously enthused by this unit and are producing gallons of imaginative, descriptive and evocative pieces. We have explored similes, sound words and descriptive language and many children have tried using these in their own poems. We have also begun to think about the message we are trying to convey in our poems and how poems need to be read aloud.
In Reading Workshop, we have focused on making connections with our reading and exploring how books can make readers feel and think about things. We have practiced sticking notes at certain places in our books where we felt a certain way or made a specific connection. We have then expanded on these with our partners and/or the whole class. Next week, we will move on to the idea of predicting and inferring.
In Mathematics, we have been creating “Addition Stories” as we continue to compare quantities, compose and decompose numbers. The children have been working in pairs to create their stories, modeling them with classroom materials and recording the corresponding addition number sentences. Elsewhere, we have started to explore number relationships using the Number Lines and Hundred Squares as we start to think about the most “efficient” or “best” strategies to combine quantities or numbers.
As this is the last newsletter before CNY, we would like to say “Xin Nian Kuai Le” to everyone who will be celebrating. Next Thursday 23rd, the children are invited to come to school wearing red, yellow and/or gold to mark the occasion.
Reminders
Staff Professional Development-Friday 24th January-School closed for students
Student Led Conferences-Friday 14th February
Have a great weekend
We have already welcomed Kate (Georgie's mum) and Manish (Saanvi's dad) who shared their passions for reading and playing the guitar, and, by all accounts, they were a big hit! Thank you so much. If you have a particular passion that you might be interested in sharing, please contact us to arrange a time.
We have been blown away by the poems the children are creating across in our Writing Workshop sessions. They are enormously enthused by this unit and are producing gallons of imaginative, descriptive and evocative pieces. We have explored similes, sound words and descriptive language and many children have tried using these in their own poems. We have also begun to think about the message we are trying to convey in our poems and how poems need to be read aloud.
In Reading Workshop, we have focused on making connections with our reading and exploring how books can make readers feel and think about things. We have practiced sticking notes at certain places in our books where we felt a certain way or made a specific connection. We have then expanded on these with our partners and/or the whole class. Next week, we will move on to the idea of predicting and inferring.
In Mathematics, we have been creating “Addition Stories” as we continue to compare quantities, compose and decompose numbers. The children have been working in pairs to create their stories, modeling them with classroom materials and recording the corresponding addition number sentences. Elsewhere, we have started to explore number relationships using the Number Lines and Hundred Squares as we start to think about the most “efficient” or “best” strategies to combine quantities or numbers.
As this is the last newsletter before CNY, we would like to say “Xin Nian Kuai Le” to everyone who will be celebrating. Next Thursday 23rd, the children are invited to come to school wearing red, yellow and/or gold to mark the occasion.
Reminders
Staff Professional Development-Friday 24th January-School closed for students
Student Led Conferences-Friday 14th February
Have a great weekend
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