Week 6

This week the main concepts we are learning are to:

• Use a Red Thinking Hat idea (feeling) to begin a story.
• Use Past Knowledge of a topic to build new learning in our reading.
• Understand sounds of letters and parts of words in order to read and write unknown words.
• Write a personal blog.
• Identify how we deal with conflict.
• Use known basic facts and understanding of Place Value to solve addition and subtraction problems.
• Form letters and numbers correctly.
• Play a simple musical instrument.
• Publish a piece of work on a Word Document and save it to a personal file.
• Rescue a person in the water.
• Swim freestyle and backstroke.

We are also exploring various ways to complete work and discovering how we learn best.  For example, we might be most comfortable lying on the floor with a bean cushion to write, or it may be better to stand at a high table.  Some people enjoy sitting on a couch or sitting at a regular desk.  The desk may be isolated or in a group.  We might prefer to kneel at a low table.  Ask your child where they prefer to work.  Next week we will consider other aspects of learning styles such as light/dark; noisy or quiet.

Check out children working in many different spaces today!

Standing table

Kneeling table

Floor or desk

alone or together?

on the couch