Birthday Celebrations

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Birthday  Celebrations


 We had reason to celebrate this week as it was Thames's birthday.  What a 'magnificent' and delectable  birthday cake (as Fancy Nancy would say), we got to share.  Happy Birthday Thames.




Literacy

In Literacy we continued with our Fancy Nancy stories and at the same time expanding our vocabulary.  In the first two pictures below the boys are writing down the 'fancy' words and the corresponding 'plain' words.  The children were also involved in activities of matching phrases with words, plus cutting out words to make sentences.




Junior matches phrases to pictures.

Trevi cuts out words to paste make sentences.

Mathematics

Some of the activities in mathematics this week included, work on Place Value, counting in 2's, 5's and 10's and addition and subtraction word problems. Daily work on the calendar was also part of our math's activities this week.





Lunar reads the numbers from the screen.
                                                     Ida works on addition word problems.
                                                   Junior demonstrates counting in 10's

UOI

This week the children looked at life cycles, in particular the life cycle of a butterfly. They then. demonstrated their understanding of this concept beautifully through craft work.







Next Week

UOI

For the UOI the children will be investigating the life cycle of a jellyfish and the common house fly.

Literacy

The children will be looking at non-fiction books on different life cycles. The emphasis will be on locating parts of the text that give particular information, e.g. titles, contents page and labelled diagram.

Mathematics

In mathematics we will continue to read and write numbers from 1 to 20 in numerals and words.  We will also keep working on addition and subtraction word problems, as this not only develops mathematical skills but literacy skills as well.


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