Hello everyone!
Welcome to Milky way’s first blog of July. We kicked off the week with prior knowledge assessment. They did a gallery walk, where the students walked around and looked at pictures and objects displayed on the classroom tables. They then did a reflection worksheet where they drew their favorite picture from the gallery walk and they had to explain why they liked it.
Ever since unit 1 officially ended, everyone has been itching to know what awaits them in unit 2. Therefore our mission this week was to lead the students to the answer. They followed up Monday’s UOI lesson by looking at pictures and then freely saying words they thought could be used to describe these pictures. There were a lot of interesting contributions. Words and phrases such as , “helping, caring, listening, thinking, friendly, sharing, talking and making teams”, came up. By the end of the lesson everyone knew that our topic for unit 2 is going to be about teamwork! They showed good teamwork, worked well together by sharing their ideas and thoughts to come to a conclusion! Great work Milky way!
For this week’s phonics lesson they learned the ee, ea and ey vowel teams. They played a game called “catch me If you can.” When an object was placed behind someone that person had to walk as fast as they could to catch the person who placed it. If caught they had to read a vowel team word and try to make a sentence using that word. If the person couldn’t catch their counterpart they had to read the word shown to them by the teacher and make a sentence. They had to read words such as money, key, chimney, feed, keep, meet, clean, cheap and meat.
With the temperatures soaring daily, pool play continues to be a hit!
For this week’s reading lesson they read, “Bob and Nell” and “Did it fit?”
This week’s tennis lesson was the last one as we take a break to avoid the extreme summer heat. Tennis classes will resume in the middle of September.
The show and tell sessions continue to encourage the students to speak confidently in front of their peers and teachers. One of our rule regarding these presentations is that the presenter should say at least three things about their item. If you have the time, please practice with them at home what they will say about the item they bring to school.
They all enjoy interacting with their classmates during free play time, building things with flower block and sticks, as well as drawing pictures!
~The week ahead~ July 14th-18th.
We will focus on trying to define what teamwork means as we ease into unit 2’s transdisciplinary theme; How we organize ourselves.
Have a great weekend!
