Happy Chuseok to you all!
We have had a busy week in Year 1/2 with lots of fun learning happening.
We started the week with our new unit “Super Humans” in IPC. It was an exciting first lesson with a surprise guest from our wonderful dentist, Mrs. Nila. Naka’s mum prepared a wonderful lesson for the children. She taught them how to brush their teeth properly and we had the opportunity to practise flossing our teeth together. The students all got given check-ups and Mrs Nila was very impressed with how well the children had looked after their teeth. At the end of the lesson we made tooth hats. It was a great lesson and we are so thankful for Mrs. Nila’s time, knowledge and effort put in. Thank you!
We continued the week looking at our senses and parts of the body. We did a lot of collaborative work and created two life size body masterpieces. One has been named ‘Rainbow’ and the other ‘Smile’.
We also took a look at different animals and explored their similarities and differences. We agreed that the Chimpanzee was most human-like!
We finished up on Friday with a Sensory walk around the school grounds and the children enjoyed touching plants, grass on their feet, listening to cars and motorcycles and tasting some home-grown vegetables from the school garden.
In Maths this week we covered the followed objectives:
Year 1
| 1.9 – 1 less |
| 1.10 – Compare groups by matching |
| 1.11 – Fewer, more, same |
| 1.12 – Less than, greater than, equal to |
Year 2
| 1.7 – Flexibly partition numbers to 100 |
| 1.8 – Write numbers to 100 in expanded form |
| 1.9 – 10s on the number line to 100 |
| 1.10 – 10s and 1s on the number line to 100 |
We spent time at the beginning of the week reviewing how to transition from our Maths stations as they were getting a little sloppy and we wanted to improve the time spent transitioning so we have more time learning 🙂
In Literacy, the year 1 students practised writing sentences about the boy in our story “Lost and Found”. The boy and the penguin have set off in their boat to the South pole to look for Penguin’s home. We looked at adjectives to describe the waves and practised making sentences to describe them. The Year 2 students worked on a diary entry explaining how they would feel if they were sailing through the crashing waves. Both Year groups are ensuring they are using the correct punctuation when writing and the Year 2 students are making sure to add expanded noun phrases in their writing.
Phonics rotations are going very well and I am proud of the whole-school phonics programme. The small group instruction allows for teachers to really support students and listen to them read daily. Since we only have a 2 day week next week, phonics books will be sent home next Friday.
Library books were sent home and should be returned on Friday the 20th September. I ask the children to try and take one phonics book and 2 books for enjoyment to read with their parents or family members at home.
Due to the Chuseok Holiday there was no homework sent out yesterday. I hope you can all have a nice break and do something fun with your family.
Have a great weekend and see you all on Thursday 19th September!
Take care,
Mrs. Sim 🤩
