Week five learning focus – What is our community?

This week we are exploring the question What is our community? As we build on our exploration into community and how we can be an active part of it. This week we have a particular focus on the learning dispositions that help us in our learning community of year 1, focus, collaboration and bravery. 

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: Authors station, Comic creations and Directional and mathematical language for mapping. 

This week, our Performance Space is being transformed into our Mapping and Planning Room! This is the room where children are able to map, build, and explore communities through a range of digital, physical and created languages. 

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 is about using descriptive language and connecting words while writing. 

Our reading focus is on phonological awareness and blending when reading but an increased independence when identifying and reading heart words and other words in the ‘wild.’

Our mathematics focus is on whole number knowledge and exploring patterning and grouping of numbers 1 – 100.