Term 2

WELCOME BACK!

I hope all the Room 13 children have had a wonderful holiday and are feeling well rested. Term 1 is always a very busy term so the holiday was much needed. Fingers crossed for this good weather to continue for the last weekend!


Some reminders for Term 2:

• Any pencil cases that were taken home must come back to school on day 1 please.
• Term 2 is a slipper term, so if we could have as many slippers at school on day 1, that would be superb!
• The seating has changed in the class and it looks great!
• The school Cross Country will be held on Tuesday the 18th of May. This is in week 5.

Term 2 units:

• Art - our art unit will be focusing on drawing and a range of different techniques
• Mathematics - we will be focusing on addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
• P.E - our P.E unit will be cross country training and then large ball skills
• Inquiry - Our inquiry unit will be based on electricity! Our big idea is that 'Solar energy is the best way to generate electricity'. This statement will be looked into over the term and we will either agree with the statement, or disagree with it.
  
  
  See you all on Monday!

The Writing Process

Wow! Today has been a very very busy day!

Sue Steele and myself were in the classroom today supporting the children to finish their publishing. The children were/are publishing their camp recounts.

Writing a recount is a very big task and has been going on since week 7.

All the children started with a brainstorm of their activity that they were going to write about.

Most of the children started off their planning for their recount writing by completing a pictoral plan. This helped the children think about what they did on the camp activity and record it visually. This visual record helped the children remember what happened and help write up their written plan.

The written plan is in chronological order and is broken up into the orientation, the event and the conclusion.

Through draft writing the children explore their ideas and practice putting sentences together and paragraphs together to create the recount.

The teacher uses a pink highlighter pen to highlight what they were "tickled pink" by and a green highlighter to highlight what needed to "Grow" and be developed.

Finally we get to the publishing stage. Check out http://room13sliteracyblog.blogspot.com/ for more published work!

There were two children in particular that worked especially hard today on their publishing. Sam and William.

Awesome work Room 13!!!!!!!!!!

Camp Video!

Confidence course Ideas

Thanks Mrs A!!!!

Hi-de-Hi Campers!!!!

Just a few collages to look at over the weekend of our WONDERFUL camp experience. More photos to come...

To see up close click on Collage and it will come up bigger on the web page.

Swim Sports 2010

World Maths Day!!! 03/03/10

Room 13 have been celebrating World Maths. http://www.worldmathsday.com/2010/

During maths time we looked at weight using grams and kg. We used the Pods to look at http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk and went on to their great interactive weight links!

Later that morning Room 13 used to the Pods to play a range of maths games that make learning basic facts fun and enjoyable.

Some of the websites used were: mathletics, tutpup, funbrain, coolmaths4kids, ictgames etc!