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'!
UOI How We Organize Ourselves Central Idea: Cooperation is essential to achieve team goals Lines of Inquiry: The importance of cooperation How to successfully achieve team goals The role that people play in teams We are back into our year long unit: cooperation is important to achieve team goals. We revisited and answered the questions, Why is cooperation important? What is a team? When do we work in teams?
Ms Smita read the book Camille's team by Stuart J. Murphy. Just like Camille's team, we had to build our sand castle. We first made a plan and decided what role each of us would play. We then head off to make our sand castles! Math Patterns and Functions Central Idea: Patterns can be represented using numbers and other symbols Lines Of Inquiry: What a pattern is. Extend and create patterns. Identify and describe patterns in various ways Pattern hunt around school Highlight of the week K2 Performance: 'The Hungry Dog.' Unit of Inquiry: This was our last week into our unit 'Who We Are'. We revisited our routine cards to conclude. We added more routines followed at home and school which help us take care of our body, mind and learning. The highlight of this weeks Unit was our visit to the Heath Zone. We first attended a session on the 'Healthy Plate Family'. Here we learnt about the quantity of foods we should consume. Fruits and vegetables (or the protection food) should be half the plate, grains (growing food) a quarter and proteins and milk the other quarter of our plate. We also learnt that as children we need to consume 5 glasses of water everyday to stay healthy.
International Day! Mathematics Measurement
Going further we estimated and measured objects using non standard units of measurement. Unit of Inquiry: Our school nurse (Nurse Jit) talked to us about the importance of washing hands, washing our body, brushing our teeth, wearing clean clothes to stay healthy. Going further into ways to take care of our body, mind and learning we decided to make a healthy snack. We were to work in three groups. We decided to make Orange Juice, Strawberry Milkshake and Sushi!
Mathematics: We played a game of Bingo to familiarize ourselves further with the language of capacity. Later we had to estimate and find 'how much' (many) beads, pegs or cubes were in our containers. We got to make our own LEMONADE! We had to measure and mix together 1 small spoon FULL of lemon juice, 1 big spoon FULL of sugar syrup and HALF cup of water! The lemonade was so good! We enjoyed making it and learning about capacity! Literacy: Daily 5 We have been learning to sort words phonetically. UOI: Our thought when we were asked, 'How are you responsible for taking care of your body?'
Sports Day
Literacy: Daily 5: I PICK We talked about choosing good fit books by comparing book selection to shoe selection. We talk about how Pete the Cat changed his shoes. Sometimes we change our shoes too. Just like our books! We then looked at things that would help us choose a book: I PICK Purpose: Each pair of shoes has its purpose. We do not wear dress up shoes to go running! Just like choosing which shoes to wear for which activity, we also have a purpose when we choose a book. The purpose for choosing a book may be because we want to learn about a certain topic or just read for fun. Interest: Just like the way our shoes reflect our interests, it is important we pick books that interest us. There are a variety of books, some we may be interested in and some not interested in. We put on large pair of shoes and tried to move around. This is really funny! The shoes do not fit us just like books. Books that are a good fit for one, may not be a good fit for another. Comprehend: Do we understand what we read? Know: We should the words in order for a book to be just right. Measurement
How many drops to fill the dot? We started by counting how many drops of water it took to fill the dots. Since they were all different sizes, it was fun to compare them. Then we wanted to just play around with it. It turned into a fun colour mixing activity too! How many pomp pomps fit in a bottle? We started by estimating how many pomp pomps would fill the bottle. Since they were all soft we could fit so many more! Can you fill it? We played a game on the computer where we had to fill in a big container of water using small containers.
Healthy and unhealthy foods:
We looked at pictures of lots of food and sorted them into healthy and unhealthy foods. Some of the foods we thought were both healthy and healthy so we put them in a middle category.
UOI:
We looked at different ways that we take care of our body , mind and learning. We have been exercising our brain and mind with the Brain Gym activities, practising mindfulness activities. Look what we think about, 'why school is important for our well being.' |
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
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