Week Four

The Olympics


The Olympics have started and we have put ourselves in the shoes of the athletes.  Look at us.

The children wrote some poems this week about olympians.  They are a five line poem known as a cinquain.  The first line is one word, the second is two words, the third is three words, the fourth is four words and the last line is one synonym for the first word.  These are the first drafts.

We are finished learning all the entries and exits necessary for cursive writing and we are working on perfecting them and how to join it all up. Below is a clip about our handwriting. It is selling a program for schools to buy but has some interesting information for parents who are wondering how their child is learning to write.  This 'new' writing began in Queensland schools in the late 1980s early 1990s so it isn't really new any more but still different to the way many parents learnt handwriting.

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We have been learning some new skills in maths and consolidating some others by participating in rotational activities.

sorting simple addition and subtraction into the yes or no piles

game to reinforce doubles and near doubles

(Doubles are 7+7, 9+9 etc

Near doubles are 7+8, 9+10)

money game

odd and even numbers game

tens and ones game

IPad maths games

sequencing IPod numbers from 1-50