Week 1 Term 2

We kicked off this week with news presentations from our new Symbaloo webmix. Year 1 News has become thoughtful, creative and educational!  It has been so encouraging to see the students present the learning in their own creative ways. So far we have had presentations using the "explain everything" app, talks filmed at home on smartphones and sent through to me in drop box,  talks with posters, booklets and diagrams. Not only have we been presenting our news to our own class, but also to 1S, and vice-versa  The students are enriching our learning in new and relevant ways.

 

Emily's talk using 'Explain Everything' on Sushi

James' talk on Fireworks

 

June explaining how to use chopsticks

 

Tong presented her talk on Tattoo's using "explain everything" on her ipad.

 

 

 

This week in Maths we were looking at number.  Some maths games that we enjoyed are here for you to have a look at.

 

The first one required 4 dice (1-6), 100's chart, coloured pencils and a white board.  The students worked in pairs.  The first player rolled all four dice.  On the white board, they had to come up with as many combinations as they could think of using addition and subtraction.  Using the answers only, these numbers were then coloured in on their 100's grid, using a different colour for each player.  The goal of the game was to get three numbers in a row either vertically, horizontally or diagonally.  This game can be extended into multiplication and division, where more of the 100's chart would be covered.  Obviously the more number combinations each student came up with the more chances they had of making three in a row.

 

 

Another maths game we played this week involved playing cards.  The students were placed in groups of 3 and given cards with the numbers 1-10 on them. The goal of the game was to work out what the missing number was, in order make a total of 10.  For example, if the card turned over was a 4, the missing number was 6.  The student that had the correct answer first, received the card. This game can be extended to make the total 20 or larger depending on the students.  Each member of the group took it in turns to be the 'card turner'.

 

 

 

Finally, we had some great learning take place this week when doing THRASS.  Using the THRASS picture cards, and working in small groups, the students were asked to look at the picture, and have a go at writing out the word on their whiteboards.  They then checked their work by turning over the card to see if they were correct.  One group came across "tape", yet on the other side of the card it read 't a p e'.  "Mrs Bowden, they got it wrong, there are only 3 sounds in tape (t/a/pe) , but they have written it like this 't/a/p/e/'.  THRASS does not use 'bossy e' that we might be familiar with, rather it is a split diagraph' t ae p.'  The p had split the 'a' and 'e'.  We invited Mr Maher in to help explain this as she is a real THRASS expert and the group that worked this out was very excited and went on to find more examples.  It was so wonderful to watch this learning unfold.