Hello and Happy Friday.
I hope this finds you all well on this gloomy, rainy Friday afternoon. Let’s have a look at what we have been learning this week.
Maths
This week in Maths, Year 1 focused on:
- Aut.2.1 – Introducing parts and wholes
- Aut.2.2 – Part-whole model
- Aut.2.3 – Writing number sentences and reviewing them
- Aut.2.4 – Fact families (addition facts)
Year 2 focused on:
- Reviewing fact families
- Aut.2.3 – Related facts
- Reviewing related facts (subtraction)
- Aut.2.4 – Bonds to 100 (tens)
- Aut.2.5 – Adding and subtracting 1s
The children are building strong number knowledge and beginning to see how facts link together across operations.
Literacy
We completed our final assessments this week – planning, practising, and writing! The children showed fantastic resilience throughout, and I’ll be sending their work home after marking.
Our next unit, beginning after the Chuseok break, will be based on the book The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson. The learning outcome will be non-fiction report writing.
- Year 1 objectives:
- Use plural noun suffixes -s and -es
- Punctuate sentences using capital letters and full stops
- Join words using and
- Year 2 objectives:
- Use co-ordination (but, or)
- Add -ly to turn adjectives into adverbs
- Use commas to separate items in a list
We’re looking forward to diving into this beautiful story together.
IPC
In IPC, we moved into our Art lessons and learned about Mark Rothko, exploring how he used colour and paint to express emotions. The children created their own masterpieces, worked collaboratively on a group painting, and discovered that not everyone feels the same emotions when looking at Rothko’s work. It was a busy, creative week, and I hope these lessons are helping the children learn more about identifying their emotions and trying strategies to manage them.
Chuseok
A reminder that school will be closed Monday–Thursday next week for the Korean Thanksgiving holiday. I wish you and your family a wonderful Chuseok, and I look forward to seeing everyone back in class on Friday, October 10th.
