In Week 3, students will be introduced to our Big Idea of ‘exploring the past helps us to see our future in new ways’, with an initial focus on how things that have happened in the past have impacted on the world today. We are excited to start our inquiry by exploring a number of key questions:
What is a timeline?
How are timelines used to record and track changes?
How do things change over time? What kinds of things change over time?
English
Last week, students were introduced to their guided reading groups. They will have weekly sessions with their group to help them develop their use of reading strategies. These strategies will also be examined during whole group shared reading time throughout the week, as well as within reading response workshops. In writing, students will explore how a recount can be used describe a memory from the past, and consider what changes have occurred in their life so far. Students will continue to be encouraged to include descriptive language as a way of enhancing and clarifying meaning to their audience, as well as to re-read their writing and think about meaning, spelling, and punctuation.
Maths
In maths this week we continue to focus on measurement. Provocations will centre around the Winter Olympics in Pyeong Chang, and how timelines can be used to track and illustrate change. We will also continue to look at telling time to the half-hour and quarter-hour, and sequencing events of our day.