Hello all!
This week we revisited the students’ responses to their immersing of story books from last week. They had written what the message was and identified the importance of why we tell stories. In order to look further into the students understanding, we all agreed that there are different categories of messages within each story. Therefore, we then asked the students to think back to the stories they each read and reflect what messages there were and placed them into four different categories:
- Environmental
- Feelings and Emotions (Wellbeing)
- Good & Evil
- Cultures
Students worked in pairs where they were required to place each story’s themes in each of the categories.
“Messages in stories teach us lessons” – Tucker
Finally, in turn, we then asked the students: What is the message that you would like to teach/tell the world?
After finishing the fantastic Math Machines, the students will be moving onto a subtraction poster. Here, each student are to complete a mini investigation into what subtraction means, why it is a vital skill to acquire and examples of where we would find subtraction in the real world. The students will place their new found knowledge onto a ‘Thinking Board’ – a poster that describes the students thinking of a particular topic. These Thinking Boards will be completed by the end of this week and placed into their portfolios ready for the upcoming student led conferences.
Our word studies have continued this week where students are looking carefully at letter patterns, on set and rhyme, suffixes/prefixes and consonants blends. They will be completing these tasks through reading big books, guided reading groups and one on one conferencing. Their writing response has been connected to their comprehension of stories. Students have responded to an award winning animation where they’ve continued using thinking routines ‘I see, I think, I wonder’ to further deepen the students understanding of stories in a different perspective.
Things to remembers:
- Reading journals for tomorrow’s library session (including their reading logs!)
- Reconciliation Week – a special whole school assembly will be held this Friday morning starting from 9:05 in the gym.
- Dancing in the Barber Shop Incursion payments need to be paid ASAP! (Due Friday 31st May) You can find this in the events page on Compass. Those who cannot access this, please come to see one of us and we will print you a paper piece.