Welcome back everyone! Well, almost everyone as some of us had extended holidays (not all of us by choice unfortunately!) It was nice seeing many of the students back at school on Tuesday, but then unfortunately I came down sick for the rest of the week. Luckily, Ms R was back and did a great job of looking after the class in my absence!
With the Christmas festivities behind us we came back full swing into our third unit of the year, under the transdisciplinary theme of Who We Are, we are focussing building relationships through communicating with others and this week we inquired into the different types of relationships (family, friends, romantic and acquaintances). The students worked together in groups to sort out images into the different types of relationships, then we focussed on what makes someone a friend, and a best friend. They also have a bit of homework on Seesaw to add in pictures of family members to create a family tree to show the different types of connections between people in their families, as we learned that relationships are “the way two or more things are connected.”
We also looked at relationships between number bonds in math, learning how to find complements of double digit numbers in our heads and did some practice adding and subtracting. In language, we have begun a new writing unit on telling stories. Our focus this week was on describing settings for a story. We also started new spelling lists, and will have our spelling test as usual next Friday. The students can practice at home on their PowerSpelling.com assignments.
In PE, we wrapped up our Karate unit with a performance of the kata “Taikyoku-shodan” and began a new PE unit on dance!
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