Tuesday, 4 February 2014

Here are some of the learning activities we completed last week.


 We have been learning all about doubles and near doubles in mental maths.  We completed some fun darts based activities to help us practise these skills.  We were aiming to improve our recall speed.  Mr McIntosh came into visit us while we were working.  



 We are continuing to work on team work and team building skills.  We played a team swapping game which required strategy and discussion to make it work.  Then we focused on our control  We sat in a circle and passed a tambourine around the circle.  Sounds easy?  Well, we could only use one finger to pass it round and it wasn't allowed to make any noise.  We were good at this so Miss Kelday added in a further challenge....a really full cup of water.  It started going round the circle in the opposite direction from the tambourine so at some points in the circle one person had to swap both things at the same time.  Tricky!


We are still working on organising and displaying information in a variety of ways. Here we are creating a whole class tree diagram.  We were thinking of questions we could ask to help us separate one person from another.  We mainly focused on appearance.  We have displayed our finished tree diagram outside the classroom door and lots of other classes have been having a look at it as they pass by.  


We have been looking at Victorian artefacts this week.  Each table had a few items and we all had to guess what they were called and what they were used for.  We made some super guesses.  


Our reading skill this week was to make predictions based on clues found in the book.  Miss Kelday gave us a series of pictures from a short story.  She had taken the words away.  We had to look at the pictures and find clues to tell us what might be happening in the story.  We then, as a group, began to write our own version of the story.  Once we are finished we will compare our story to the original and see which is best.  We might even get the chance to read our stories to a younger class. 

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