It was lovely to see the students so happy and excited to come back to school after the Christmas break! On Monday morning we all shared what we had been up to, then the students wrote a recount about their holiday. The children's writing has really improved since the start of the year. They can now mostly write concise short and long sentences using the past tense. Now we will start to work on adding more description and using different sentence beginnings. This week they were also introduced to editing their own writing. I underlined some errors (spelling or punctuation) then the children had to try and correct it themselves.
On Tuesday and Wednesday we had the Entry Point to our new IPC unit called 'From A to B'. Upper Primary also have a transport and tourism IPC unit so together we played a suitcase relay, a lost luggage game and guide the blind-folded pilot!
Following on from our Entry Point we did our Knowledge harvest. The question that I posed the children was 'What is transport?'. They all shared their own ideas and then we looked up the dictionary definition of the word transport. We are now in the process of cutting out pictures of different types of transport, which we will classify together.
As well as talking about transport we have also had quite a few discussions about dinosaurs! This week I read to the class Book 1 of the Magic Treehouse series. It is fantastic to see how involved they are in the story! It is great for their imagination, listening and oral language skills to focus on a story that does not have many pictures. They are all excited to be listening to their first chapter book! Next week we aim to read Book 2!
Have a good weekend everyone.