This week as part of our mapping work we made our own treasure map and wrote instructions for how to get to different locations. We then swapped our sheet with a friend and followed the clues to find out where different treasure was located. We had to remember left, right, forward and backwards.
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We have really enjoyed celebrating all things literacy related this week. Literacy week was launched on Monday with 'Reading rocks, wear wacky socks'. There was a bright colourful display of socks throughout the Primary school. On Tuesday we made special reading hats in preparation for the next day. On Wednesday, while wearing our reading hats, we had a special visitor to the school...Mr Roger a story teller/voice actor. He told us 3 different stories and got is join in with different actions and words. On Thursday we had a go at guessing which teacher was hiding behind picture of different books! As we are so used to seeing all the teachers wearing masks we were able to do this activity very accurately. We recognised the shapes of their eyes. To end the week we had a book character dress up day and we all performed a poem in front of the school which we had worked hard on memorising. We had a DEAR time with K and G2 where we 'dropped everything and read'. This week we went on some virtual field trips using Google Earth to many different famous archaeological sites all around the world. We used our observational skills and made notes about what we saw including all the landforms. Next we sorted what we had seen into different categories. We came up with natural and man-made, older and younger, small, medium and large. Finally we joined with another group to repeat the sorting activity again, this time with many more words and agreed on different categories. We presented our work to the rest of the class and discussed why we had categorised things in a certain way. Continuing with our virtual field trips we used a world map to find out where in the world the many archaeological wonders were located. Then we did a 'see, think, wonder' thinking routine about a the different places and came up with many questions which we were curious to find out more about.
We loved the Lion Dance at school on Tuesday...and were really surprised when the lion gave us a toy!
In order to find out what the work of a palaeontologist is like we did some careful digging of model fossils. We enjoyed being active inquirers by using some replica chisels and hammers as well as brushes to gently scrape away the dirt. Inside we found mini dinosaur fossils. Then we asked and answered some questions just as palaeontologists do when they find new discoveries. This helped us develop our research skills. To connect with our learning in Maths we mapped where on a coordinate grid we had found our particular fossil. The next day we extended our thinking by digging up model fossils from the sand and matched them to examples of different small insects. We made careful observational sketches of the fossils and again worked on answering questions about the fossils as well as coming up with our own questions for further research.
After reading the Sandwich swap we did an activity together to focus on the line of inquiry ‘communities support each other’ by using our social skills. We had to sort a list of new vocabulary words from the sorry book and their definitions. At first we were not very successful so we stopped and looked at our check lists for good social skills. We could tick caring and helping others, but realised we had missed ‘taking turns’. We tried the activity again and were much more successful when we each took turns! The next day we practiced being open minded risk takers by making and eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and hummus and pita sandwiches. We wrote respectfully about our opinions of the foods.
As part of our Maths work about mapping we have been focusing on giving and following instructions. We needed to practice learning the difference between left and right. We gave and followed directions for the frog, always beginning on the start square, to get to different puppets laid out on the grid. Next we progressed to writing down sets of instructions for others to follow.
On Monday and Tuesday afternoon we did lots of activities to celebrate the lunar new year. These included making spring blossom paintings, paper mandarin oranges and red packet paper lanterns. We also wrote some descriptive shape poems with a lunar new year theme. Our house events on Tuesday afternoon were lots of fun we enjoyed the mandarin (table tennis ball) throwing and catching and chopstick relay the best.
This week we began our tuning in activities to our next Unit of Inquiry ‘Where We Are in Place and Time’. We had a selection of artefacts and pictures of artefacts. First we had to guess what we thought they were. Next we had to arrange them on a timeline from oldest to newest. Finally we did some work sorting and categorising the items. We ended up with electronic times, fossils, Egyptian items, Chinese items and things with symbols on then. We are all really excited to find out more about this new unit in the coming weeks.
To share about our diverse communities for Show and Tell we shared games, dances and celebrations with our classmates. Naomi did a Scottish Dance, Imran taught us Game of the Goose which he plays with his family, Ian shared a traditional Korean game which we played together as a class. Michael showed us a special Harry Potter wand from England that his uncle gave him. Ms Shradha shared about Indian republic day celebration which was on the 26th of January. We enjoyed learning more about the diverse traditions from our class community.
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