Unit of Inquiry and Literacy Over the last couple weeks the students have been making their own fractured fairy tales based on the story of The Three Little Pigs! This week they planned and prepared how they want to tell the story, after inquiring into "How stories are told." We looked at the many ways to tell stories such as through puppets, Kamishibai cards, books, miming and using toys! They all chose how they want to tell their story and have been working hard on creating it. Exploring ways of telling stories Creating their fractured fairytales Wake up! Shake up! This week we tuned into Wake up! Shake up! by Singapore Repertory Theatre. This fun virtual session led by professionals had our students doing activities relating to drama, song and dance. We heard various stories that we recognised from class, learned how to mime and dance from different cultures. Students made connections to our central idea that "Stories can be shared in many ways." Mathematics This week we continued to dive deeper into various strategies we can use to help us subtract such as using our fingers, drawing pictures, counting backwards and using a number line! We also had some fun playing subtraction bowling. We also explored ways to measure time! We learned that seconds, minutes and hours can be measured on clocks. While we use calendars for days, weeks, months and years. We explored how long is a second and a minute and recorded our ideas. Later in the week we read "The Very Grouchy Ladybug" by Eric Carle and tracked his day using our clocks. This helped us to understand that one full circle of the clock for the minute hand makes 1 hour!
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Unit of Inquiry This week during our Unit of Inquiry we looked at Fractured Fairytales! These are fairy tales told from a different perspective. One of our key concepts is perspective. We learned that perspective is when we look at something from a different point of view or when we have different feelings and opinions about something. We read the story "What Really Happened to Little Red Riding Hood, The Wolf's Story" by Toby Forward and Izhar Cohen and "The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig" by Eugene Trivizas. We discussed the similarities and differences between the story and the different perspectives the characters had. We also acted out some of our favourite stories. Math We also learned we had different perspectives/opinions on a lot of things! Each morning our question of the day asked us our opinion on something to do with fairy tales, we graphed our answers and then showed the data in tally marks. We practiced how to write tally marks more throughout the week. We also started learning different strategies for subtraction - or taking away, we will continue building these number skills through to the end of the year. Earth Day Thursday, 22nd April was Earth Day! Our celebrations lasted throughout the week when we made a play healthy restaurant with vegetarian food, read stories about the Earth and created posters out of recycled paper to help remind ourselves and our friends about what we can do to take care of the Earth everyday!
Unit of Inquiry - What is a fairy tale? We all know our favourite fairy tales, from Cinderella to The Three Little Pigs. But what makes a fairy tale, a fairy tale? First we looked at Fairy Tales from the concept of form. We learned that fairy tales have: - Good Characters & Evil Characters - A Setting - Magic - Problems & Solutions After, we sorted characters, settings and magic props that we commonly found in fairy tales and stories. While reading the fairy tales, we realised we have some stick puppets/felt puppets with the characters and settings of the fairy tales! This is a way to share/tell a story! Our first line of inquiry is: how stories are told. We learned they can be told in a book, but they can also be told in different ways, such as through puppets! We took action to make a puppet theatre for our class! A puppet theatre was made for us, and we started painting it ourselves this week. Literacy This week we started introducing Literacy Choice Time. We have been practising these skills all year. Now we are ready to independently choose to work on them during this time! We get to choose to independently work on our writing or independently completing word work activities. Next week we'll introduce Reading Routines to our choice. Math As we continue to develop our Data Handling skills, we also are continuously developing our numeracy and number skills! This week we reviewed the many ways to add and combine numbers, focusing on using a number line as a strategy. We made our own interactive number line and used this to practice adding numbers.
Unit of Inquiry - How We Express Ourselves Central Idea: Stories can be shared in many ways
This week we tuned into our central idea of our new unit by looking at the central idea and choosing which words we thought were important. Afterwards we recorded our thoughts about the meanings of the words. We found out the prior knowledge we had by looking our favourite stories and why they are our favourites. Throughout this week and continuing next, we will be reading our favourite stories. Literacy - Reading as a reader This week we investigated what it meant to read a book as a reader! We learned that some of the ways readers read books is to gain information about that book! We can do this by: Questioning: asking questions about anything Inferring: sometimes the authors leave us clues about what is happening in the story without writing them! We can find out lots of information by being detectives and looking for clues to see what the author is trying to tell us. We practised these skills when reading the Gruffalo then we sequenced the story, developed fine motor skills with Gruffalo playdough mats and used natural materials to make houses for the characters of the Gruffalo. Some fun pictures of the children exploring the new areas in the classroom!
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AuthorWe are a class of 4, 5 and 6 year olds at an international school in Singapore! We learn by playing, inquiring and having fun. Our teacher is Ms Bustamante, and this is our learning journey! Archives
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