Week four learning focus – What do we understand about place and its impact on us?

This week we are exploring the question What do we understand about the place and its impact on us? As we build on our exploration into community we now begin to think about the places and people that shape our understanding of who we are. In particular, the places that make and connect us. 

In our Studio Space, provocations include Collaborative drawing with symbols; Cities and towns – building in the construction space with documentation;  and summer Still life; and a fine motor skills exploration using wire and string. 

In our Learning Commons, the provocations include Mapping – google maps, atlas’s, globes; storytelling through comics in our author’s station and maths games to build and develop mastery over whole number facts and counting up to 100.

In our Performance Space, the provocations include Photography Studio – how do I look when I feel….?;  Shape and nets; an exploration into light and our special places collaborative mapping. 

This week students will also experience a range of workshops and targets that draw together the concepts from our inquiry and build on our core competencies of reading, writing and mathematics.

Our writing focus this week continues to be the student of sentences and the correct use of dotted thirds when handwriting.

Our reading focus is on phonological awareness and blending when reading.

Our mathematics focus is on whole number knowledge using number lines and bundling when working with numbers up to 100.