Today we focused on literacy beginning with Spelling Bingo as usual. I again modelled the use of full sentence answers and using paragraphs. Students are really start to show great improvement in this area. Students were given time to finish answering the 8 questions about The Pinballs, the class novel, and another block of time to get another of the bigger activities done. Tonight's homework is to complete a third activity. The unit of work on The Pinballs is due in Friday morning. Students will be assessed on this using a rubric and some written feedback given.
In Art this morning students finished off their banners. I guess these will be hanging in our classroom soon.
Woodwind students were in and out from 12-00 o'clock on. The grade 5s seemed to enjoy their first lesson.
In the afternoon, for the first 20 minutes, students had silent reading whilst I worked closely with four grade 5 girls on the art of writing persuasive texts. Students then worked on their microscope sketches, their microorganism jigsaws or their softies designs.
We focused on illustrator Junko Morimoto for half an hour, looking at some of the books she has illustrated and written. She emigrated to Australia from Japan in 1982. We watched a short film about her experiences during the bombing of Hiroshima. She was thirteen years old at the time. I did this short lesson as students missed their Japanese lesson due to House Meeting on Monday morning.
http://littlelibraryofrescuedbooks.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/phoenix-by-nan-hunt.html Some students have also opted to read Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes which also provides interesting insights to the aftermath of the bombing. There are two copies of this book in our class library.
http://littlelibraryofrescuedbooks.blogspot.com.au/search?q=Sadako
About 25% of the class read for half an hour every night. It would be great if we could elevate this percentage.
The majority of students handed in their Luck Dip maths activity.
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| One hydra coming up! |
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| Bacteria anyone? |
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| Preparing a softie design |
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| Cutting out pattern pieces |
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