Unit Of Inquiry We have been looking at different forms of dance to express ourselves. This week we looked at Haka dance from New Zealand, Tap dance and Gumboot dance. We showed anger by stomping and putting our tongue out during the Haka dance. It was fun to express happiness by moving to Tap and Gumboot dances. Here we stamped our feet, stomped around, jumped, twirled and clapped. Unit Of Inquiry
Mathematics: Going further into using the language of position and giving directions we played several games. We played the blindfold game where we had to give direction of moving forward, backward, left and right. We also played with the Bee-Bots giving it direction to move on a grid. And then we went out in the playground where we gave directions to our friends to move on the grid! Movement has been so much fun!
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Unit Of Inquiry: How We Express Ourselves Focus: Dance- to express our emotions. Emotion? What are they? How do we express them? Some of them are: happy, sad, excited, scary, lonely, loved, proud, worried, jealous, upset, disgusted and included. We then looked at dances from around the world. We watched how people moved their bodies in different ways to express their feelings. Japanese Dance: We looked at how people from Japan dressed in Kimonos and moved their bodies gently to soft music. It showed that they were calm and happy. We made our own fans and danced to the Japanese music. Lion and Dragon Dance from China: We first watched these dances and saw that the people jumped, skipped, moved their hands up and down. Some of us were scared while most of us thought that it was fun and exciting!
Mathematics Strand: Shape and Space Focus: Describing and locating one object to another using the language of position and direction.
Literacy:
In literacy we learnt that it is important to sound the words when reading and writing. We looked at the beginning at the ending sounds in words. This helps us become better readers and writers. UOI How We Express Ourselves Central Idea: We use our bodies to express ourselves Lines Of Inquiry: Dance; Mime; Acrobatics We have started our inquiry into our new unit. We used lots of dress up clothes, masks, streamers, musical instruments and different types of music to explore into our lines of inquiry. After which we reflected on our feelings. Keshav said: "I was really excited when I dressed up as a transformer." Nathan said: "Ringing the loud bell was so much fun." Gabriella added: "I dressed up as a scary girl. It made me feel scared." Isabel said: "I dressed up as an Owl and felt happy." Mikhail said: "I liked to play music on the musical instruments." Charlie added: "I enjoyed playing the music on the bell." Sofia said: "I pretended to be a dog and I felt cute." Omer dressed up as a clown and said it make me "happy." Eiji said: "I dressed up as transformer and Jurrasic park bear. It was so much fun." Esther: "I dressed up as a clown and it made me feel happy." Amanda: "I dressed up as a pirate, then became a juggler and a Panda in the zoo. It was all so exciting." Amy added: "And I dressed up as a Batman. It made me feel happy." Ella said: "I did not like dressing up." Olivia said: "I put on the red horns. I looked nice an it made me happy." Akari: I pretended to be a puppy and that made me happy." We played Charades. We were given lots of action words like jumping, skipping, dancing etc. We had to use our body to express the action word and the audience had to guess.
Literacy: Daily 5 We were introduced to Read to Someone: During Read to Someone, we sit right next to each other, almost close enough to touch elbows and knees. This close proximity allows us to read quietly and still be heard by our partners but not loud enough for the rest of the class to hear. This sitting arrangement allows partners to look on and read the same book if they choose. This is called EEKK! Fun with letters and words Unit Of Inquiry: Going further and taking action into our unit on 'Cooperation is essential to achieve team goals' we played several team games and planned and built things with recycled materials. Later we reflected on why it was important to cooperate and what roles did we play in a team?
Loads of fun in the castle from our performance 'A Hungry Dog'!
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AuthorWe are the class of K2 consisting of 5 and 6 year olds. Our teacher, Ms Smita, facilitates our learning through inquiry and lots of fun! Archives
June 2018
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