First thing on Monday morning we celebrated Avyukth turning 6 years old! Happy birthday Avyukth!
We then finished off our Knowledge harvest from the week before. The children had cut out lots of pictures from magazines of different types of transport. We then classified them into land, air and water transport. The children also had fun drawing some of their own pictures of less traditional modes of transport like submarines, rockets and hot air balloons!
We then had a discussion about the different ways we all come to school, which naturally led us to the question - 'What is the most common mode of transport used to get to ISG?'. We first surveyed our own class, collecting our results on a tally chart. Students then went and surveyed the other classes and staff.
Our next step was to present our findings on a bar graph.
Our next Geography Learning target is to be able to use maps and locate the position of certain features. First of all we identified where ISG was and then all the students colour coded their own house.
The students loved looking at the map and finding their street! The next day, 3 students came to school to show a map they had worked on at home! It is great to see the students so enthusiastic about our topic that they continue their learning at home!
Next week we will continue to work with maps and writing a set of directions. This relates well to our learning in maths this week as we have been talking about words to describe position!
The Year 2's also learnt about right angles and practiced identifying angles that are smaller or larger than 90 degrees.
We also had a surprise visitor come into our class on Thursday! The children tried to predict who our surprise visitor was going to be - a Knight, an architect, a new student, a policeman? Then I gave them a clue - that it was not a human! Chinmay then guessed correctly - a robot!!
The children were very intrigued to see Zora the robot and what she could do!
She could even dance the Gangnam style!
Here is Ivan taking Zora for a walk!
After Zora left we all had so many questions about how she worked and what they use robots for. We quickly wrote them all down and gave them to Zora's owner who answered all of our questions for us. On Friday morning we also read a book about robots - so parents, ask your child if you would like to know anything about robots!
Have a great weekend everyone!