Weekly update 14-19th October 2018

Dear Parents,

I would like to remind you that I will be out for a conference in Senegal from Thursday 18th October at 9:00 to Thursday the 26th October 2018. Work has been prepared and discussed with Ms.Sinead, she will be leading the class for those days.

Homework for the week: (Sharing)

1. Identify things at home, and in your surroundings and discuss where they come from.
2. Cut out pictures of goods and foods from magazines, students will use these pictures to sort them into categories in class.

Unit 1: How we Organise Ourselves

Central idea: People work together to transform foods and goods needed

Checklist: For my interactive table (17-26 October 2018 ) ongoing for the next 2 weeks.

1. Select a food or good (source) to investigate  
2. Find out what is needed to make this food or good. Example: Wheat grains – flour, oranges – orange juice, animal skin - into clothes, wood- paper etc.
3. Research, collect and show the steps the food/goods go through to be used by people.
4. Collect the materials, pictures, make drawings to help you explain the process of your food or good, who helps with this process and where it comes from.
5. Connect this to the people who need this most and explain why it is important.

Students will be working on their presentations in class, please only help them source, collect information and items for their presentations, it's not to be done at home.

This week for Literacy students learned the use of "a, an" and the" in sentences. They had to know the English rules to this. Ask them to explain what they learned. Students had to apply this knowledge when writing their story with food as a superhero. During writing, they had to apply punctuation marks and adjectives, using the 5 w's when, where, what, why and who to stretch out sentences. Students used a student-friendly writing rubric to self -edit and reflect on their writing.

Students worked in groups to create scenes from our class reader Charlotte's Web.  They created 3D characters and the setting. They recorded this work on Seesaw, for your viewing.

Find  some pictures of our weekly activities here

 Here are some reading booklets and comprehension questions for students to do.

Pink Worksheet
Brown Worksheet
Green Worksheet
Grey Worksheet
Black Worksheet
Purple Worksheet
Pale Blue Worksheet
Lemon Worksheet