Week 7

This week our literacy block changed in structure. We now spend 2 hours, 4 days a week, on literacy learning. We start with morning group where we find out who's at school, look at our calendar, check the weather and develop our oral language skills. We then move into Writing. During this time we are encouraged to write independently and practise the skills we are learning. I also model a different aspect of writing. After writing we look at our Accelerated Literacy text. We are doing a persuasive text this term. Then we have Self-Selected reading. This is when we read independently or with a partner ( I also listen to students read during this time). Lastly it's Word Work. We are using the Jolly Phonics progam to learn about letter sounds. This new structure will take some time to get used to. Working solidly for 2 hours is a difficult task, but we are doing well.

A highlight this week was using the latops during maths to use the Mathletics website. We love practising our maths skills playing the games and quizzes.  Another highlight was cooking on Friday. We made pancakes. We did well with reading the recipe, measuring the quantities, flipping our pancakes, spreading our toppings and washing up afterwards.

Thanks must go to James who was the official photographer during our cooking session.

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