Week 4, Term 2

Another awesome week! The children as usual enjoyed sharing lots for news and had fun creating things (picture 1) and I introduced a new website (we have all signed our internet safety agreements, so if anyone is breaking the rules the children know that it will result in being banned from all devices and/or a parent meeting) called "Teach your Monster to read". This is an awesome website that let's the kids create their own Monster and use their knowledge of reading to guide their monster though it's literacy life. I was blown away when I asked various kids what they were doing in the game currently and got answers such as "I have to find all the 'sh' words, the words that have s and h together...Those are sh words" ... The game could be teaching them better than I could at this rate! (Picture 2). 

                  (Picture 1)

                 (Picture 2)

Finally to end the week, we counted the groups marbles! Because we have been focusing on using multiplication recently, I encouraged them to use the strategy of grouping and skip counting to find their groups total. They all eventually came to the conclusion that putting them into groups of 10 and skip counting in 10s to gain the total was the quickest way. (Although many tried groups of 2 first).

Well done to the group who had 122 marbles!!! You are awesome.

               

I am at courses next Tuesday (cross country day) and Wednesday so that will be why you will not see me in class. Goodluck to all the wonderful Room 5 students in the Cross Country! We definitely have a very athletic class so I look forward to hearing all about it on Thursday when I am back. 

I am also aware the "new school" has been a recent topic of conversation within the kids (I have been discussing it with them, and they have many questions!). Any questions about MLE (modern learning environments) feel free to ask. It is a very exciting time as building begins in August! 

Have a great weekend and thank you to those parents who have been leaving comments on the blog!! So nice to know it is viewed and enjoyed :)