Our Maths unit is now focused on time and fractions. We began by making our own clocks to use throughout the unit.
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Our final unit this year is 'Sharing The Planet' with the central idea: small creatures play an important role in our environment. We began by sorting out toy animals into different categories. The next day we went to look for small creatures living on your campus and to make notes about the environment they live in.
The Grade One and Two mini market day was a huge success. Everyone was very excited to set up their stalls and begin selling their goods and services to the Primary school classes. Maths skills were practiced as giving change was important. Self Management skills were used when taking orders, setting up and keeping the stall in order. Thinking skills were needed when sales were down and new creative ways to boost customers were needed. Some made signs to carry around, others put on special offers such as buy 1 free 1. Everyone learned a lot, but most importantly everyone had a great time.
This week we learned about Ramadan and the celebration of Eid at the end of the fasting month. We made some Hari Raya cards with traditional woven Ketupat designs as well as decorated green packets. On Friday we had a special assembly to learn more about Hari Raya and watched a special dance performance.
Grade One and Two thoroughly enjoyed their field trip to Singapore City Gallery, Maxwell Food Centre and China Town. They explored systems in Singapore, the history of trade in Singapore and exchanged money for needs and wants at lunch and souvenir shopping.
To begin our work on capacity we discussed vocabulary that would describe how much sand is in a container. We made labels and then went to the sandpit to fill up containers with sand to match the labels. Next we estimated how many small cups would fill different containers. To check we did the filling and counted to find out how many cups of sand filled each container.
This week we read our published versions of the Three Little Pigs to the Kindy class. They all enjoyed our stories and illustrations.
After discussing our initial ideas about what defines a need and a want we were presented with a box of things to sort out. Some of them were obvious, such as water as a need. Yet some proved to be more challenging and provided lots of discussions. We had to share our opinions and give a reason for our thinking. After this we made our own needs and wants posters to display as part of our UOI formative assessment.
This week we used metre rulers to measure with and then completed some weight investigations using balance scales as well as digital weighing scales to find out about grams and kilograms.
To focus in on one of lines of inquiry ‘forms of exchange’ we played a game called quiz, quiz, trade. In this game we were exchanging information as well as question cards. We then watched a video about the history of trade along the silk route. Afterwards we discussed how to categorise items that are traded into agricultural, manufactured, religion, culture and technology. We worked in groups to think of things in these categories that were traded in the past as well as ones that are traded by countries today. The next day we focused on another line of inquiry ‘how trade affects our choices’ by participating in a class trading event. Everyone brought in items to trade and we also had picture cards of items from the previous days activity. We traded things with others in the class multiple times. We then did a reflection on the activity to focus on how and why we made different choices during the trading. We also played a trade simulation game with a group. We had 5 items belonging to our trade and had to collect 5 items from others in order to win the game. We developed strategies such as trading things we knew we didn’t need in order to get things we did need two or three turns later in the game.
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