Unit 3 officially began this week. We started off by doing a gallery walk with the aim of helping the students figure out what the new topic is , without just dictating things to them.

After everyone had a general idea of what the topic would be , we moved on to talking about the elements of a story . The first element we chose to talk about is CHARACTERS. We defined characters as the people,animals, objects/things and creatures who think, feel and act in a story.

They watched a video narrative about the big bad wolf and the three rabbits, and tried to identify the characters that came up in the story.

Below are the responses they gave in the discussion that ensued: “One of the characters was a bird”,there was a wolf called Jack”,”I saw rabbits”,”there were bees”,”I saw a farmer.”

They learnt about the br and bl sounds for this week’s phonics lesson.

The gym teacher made the lesson fun for the students by teaching them fun gymnastic moves.

The autumn bus trip made this week super special. We first enjoyed listening to stories read by a lady who works at Chihiro museum . We then toured the museum and looked at interesting pictures and books. After this we went to the train library where the were vintage books and cute puppets from famous folktales. This was followed by eating our tasty bentos and then playing freely.

This week we enjoyed many show and tells!Presentations about diamonds, police festival visits, police bikes and dolls.

Thank you for reading our blog.Have a wonderful long weekend!