Naomi showed us some hama bead boards which she can use with plastic beads to make different colour shapes when the beads are ironed together. She also brought in a pattern block shape game with different pictures to make with the shapes. We each had a go at making some of the pictures. Nadia brought lots of pictures which she had taken of things around her. We sorted them into categories after her presentation and found out that she had 2 hearts and 2 rectangles and 1 of all the other shapes. Imran created a really fun game for us to play. He explained the rules and then we all had fun playing it together. When you landed on a 2D shape you had to say the name of the shape and how many sides it had. You could then move that many places forward. There were a few places you wouldn't want to land though, as you got sent back to the start! Ian brought in some mini lego and show us how he connected all the pieces to make different things. This led us to discussions about 2D shapes being used to make 3D shapes. Michael showed us a dart board with different coloured shapes. He also brought a shape game for us to play that he had made. We enjoyed playing it together.
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This week it was Grade One's turn to present at assembly. We decided to make a video to share our learning about endangered animals. Here is our video below. Enjoy!
We have been working hard to present all our research about endangered animals on a padlet. You can read and listen to facts about endangered animals below. Click on the square icon with the arrow inside in the top right corner to enlarge the padlet so see everyone's work.
During our library session this week we learned how to use Britannica online to search for information about endangered animals to help us with our personal research. We learned to search using key words and read carefully for information to answer our research questions. We also learned an important skill of bookmarking the site so we can easily get to the website again in the future.
To further our 2D shape inquiries this week we firstly did some soring of shapes. We suggested and sorted by colour, the number of sides, the shape name, the number of corners and whether it had straight, curved or both straight and curved edges. Here are some photos to show our results. Last week Imran had wondered if we would be able to cover a whole table with pattern blocks, so we set to work this week on this inquiry. We discovered lots about the properties of shapes along the way such as hexagons were faster and join easily to make a honeycomb pattern, that trapeziums can be made with two rhombus or 3 triangles and that the square pattern blocks were harder to use because they didn’t have diagonal edges and all the other shapes did. By special request we used shaving foam to practice drawing some of the more complex 2D shapes that we have been learning about.
After the holiday we were surprised to see how tall our lima bean plants had got! We also observed changes in the roots and shoots growing on the onion and leek. We then planted the onion and leek into some soil for them to hopefully grow some more. We completed our lima bean diary and continued with our observational drawings of the leek and onion.
To begin our inquiry into endangered and extinct species we first watched a Brainpop video to find out exactly what these two words mean. Next we sorted toy animals into whether we thought they were endangered, not endangered or extinct. Then we checked our sorting against a list of endangered animals printed from the WWF. Next we chose which endangered animal we would like to find out more about. We wrote down questions that would help us when doing our research. Then we sorted and matched our questions to the three key concepts being focused on in our unit (function, causation and responsibility). We learned about to filter searches for non-fiction books on Epic about our endangered animal and also explored the WWF website for information.
This week we used tens and ones base ten manipulatives in order to show how two digit numbers are composed. The base ten manipulatives really helped us to visualise the tens and ones place value of each digit. We enjoyed playing a place value bingo game together. We also made some pictures from the base ten materials and counted the number of tens and ones we used for each picture.
This week we began our shapes unit and have been exploring 2D shapes. We refreshed our memories of the shape names and counted how many corners and edges the shapes have. We were interested in finding out what pictures and bigger shapes could be made by combining shapes so had some time exploring what we could do.
This week we have had a halloween theme for some of our literacy activities. We practiced our word skills by writing lots of describing words about different objects associated with halloween. After our writing we shared our best list of adjectives with the rest of the class. We wrote some friendship potion recipes using imperative verbs to explain the specific action needed for each step of the potion such as sprinkle, stir, whisk and pour. Spooky spell and magic potion writing was fun too, we had to use our imaginations and create spells to help others and ourselves. Our focus was capital letters and full stops to correctly punctuate each sentence of the spell. For Maths we made some spells with different animal legs in a cauldron that added to twenty. For example 1 ant, 1 spider, 1 frog and 1 bird. We came up with lots of different combinations. Dressing up was lots of fun and we really love our new playground!
A few of us were interested in finding out about roots, how they grow and what they do. We set up some experiments to observe new root growth in onions, leeks and carrots. We have been checking on them every few days and making observational drawings with labels to show the changes taking place. We also used some non-fiction books on Epic! to read facts about roots and then answered questions about what we read in note form.
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