FACILITATOR'S NEWS What's coming up at Silkwood? SCHOOL ...

CLASS 1 TALLOW NEWS
What have we been up to…
MAIN LESSON
We are finishing off our Counting Patterns
main lesson this week. We’ve enjoyed
sharing Yanto’s journey and learning
about the amazing patterns that numbers
can make. We discovered that number
patterns can be learned through skipping,
chanting, movement and rhyme.
PROFICIENCY LESSONS
In math we’ve been concentrating on how
to read and write 2 digit numbers.
ENGLISH
Our learning has centred around sight
word games and the lower case alphabet.
HPE
We’ve been focusing on how exercise and
nutrition keeps us healthy. Our learning
has focused on cooperative games using a
range of whole body movements.
EE / ENVIRONMENTAL ED
Each week we work on a rotational basis
to cover a range of activities. The compost
collection is now in full swing, with a
group of children making their way
around the school each Wednesday
afternoon to collect class scrap buckets,
empty and return.
Other activities have been planting seeds,
compost maintenance, and environmental
based art.
CRAFT / LOTE
Katy has been working with the children
on finger knitting as well as making
recorder cases.
SOCIAL SKILLS
We’ve been integrating our HPE into
social skills as usual. The children were
very proactive this week and made their
own school lunches. Hopefully this will
continue on a regular basis!
Lauren
CLASS 2 TALLOW NEWS
What have we been up to…
MAIN LESSON – Symmetry
We have been looking at rotational
symmetry and asymmetrical objects.
Class 2 have designed some beautiful
mandalas that demonstrate their
understanding of rotating symmetry. We
have also been investigating asymmetrical
objects in our classroom and describing
their features with our partners.
PROFICIENCY LESSONS
English – We have been looking at our
friend Mr Comma and searching for him in
our reading books.
Maths – We have been looking at clocks
and investigating o’clock times such as 9
o’clock and 10 o’clock. We are also trying
really hard to learn our 5 x tables!
Spelling – This week we have been
practising the ‘f’ sound. The ‘f’ sound is in
words such as fun, fill, phone,
photograph, and giraffe. Next week, we
will be practising ‘l’ sounding words. I will
email the new spelling list for you each
week to see what we are working on in
class.
HPE
Catching, throwing and batting games.
EE
Investigating and observing composts.
SOCIAL SKILLS
Habit 5 – Seek to understand and then be
understood.
Kate
CLASS 3 TALLOW NEWS
What have we been up to…
MAIN LESSON
Measurement…..Our new Main Lesson.
We have explored the historical and
hysterical ways of measuring. We’ve used
and manipulated parts of body; even our
whole body to explore the wonderment
of measurement. This week we
excelled….we even managed to measure
the height of some of the tallest poles in
our school grounds….and all without a
harness! We used a method once used by
a traveller who wanted to measure the
ancient pyramids of Egypt. We used the
sun! FYI: The large light-pole at the edge
of the oval is 63 Shaper Feet!
PROFICIENCY LESSONS
We have been creating patterns using
subtraction and addition.
HPE
Through strategic planning our game has
manifested from a four team event, to a
two team play off. We are all becoming
much better team players!
EE
Collecting household data has shown us
how much water we use for personal use.
SOCIAL SKILLS
To learn, we often have to start with the
end in mind!
GENERAL / REMINDERS
Please keep up Mental Math (-+)
computations at home. Speed and
accuracy is your goal!
THINGS TO LOOK FORWARD TO
Continuing our Main Lesson …. TIME will
be the new concept …. We can’t wait!
Andrea
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