Here is some information about International Day from Ms Jasinska:
Dear Parents, International Day is on the 6th of October and it is quickly approaching! We are excited to share our cultures and celebrate together on that day. We would love to have as much parent involvement as possible and besides sharing the day with your children, here are some ways you can participate: Country Display: We will be making the Elementary School hallway's display boards available to parents to decorate. Each board will be assigned a country and you are welcome to come by and decorate during the week of 2nd October - 5th October. If you are interested, please let Ms. Jasinska know by email which country you are representing so she can try to connect you together [email protected] Food: One of the highlights of International Day is the food! Please feel free to share your national dish with us that day. You can bring it in the morning for it to be kept in a safe place while you participate in the fun. Later, each country will have a table where you can place your food and we can celebrate the wonderful cuisines of the world together. We are all looking forward to International Day, and hope you can join us for a morning of fun! Please email Ms Jasinska or myself if you have any questions.
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This week in UOI we have been taking all the learning we have done on rights and responsibilities and we have thought about how we can bring this into the classroom. As a class, we picked out the rights that we thought were most relevant in supporting our learning to use for our class charter. Social skills are a big part of this UOI, in particular, learning how to resolve conflict and accepting responsibility. This week we have been role-playing different scenarios which result in conflict. We then modelled how to resolve these issues using our conflict corner. Using these steps will help us to become more independent in solving our problems. Our role-plays were videoed and these will soon be up on our portfolios for you to watch! In Daily 5 we have been learning how to, 'read to someone.' We've worked really hard at listening to our partners read and checking our understanding by summarising what they read to us. UOI In UOI this week we have been digging deeper into our UOI. We started off by reading scenarios about different children. Reading their stories, we could tell that not all their rights were being upheld. With a partner, we worked together to infer which rights were being denied. We thought about which organisations were responsible for upholding these rights and then we came up with some suggestions as to how they could uphold these. We also spent some time looking at some photos of children from around the world and could see straight away that they too were denied different rights. We carried out a chalk talk activity to share our ideas about what we could see, what the photos made us think about, we also made some connections between these photos and previous knowledge and we came up with some interesting questions. In math this week, we have continued to work on place value, and addition and subtraction strategies. Earlier this morning we had a go at a place value challenge. We were given 6 numbers that were written in 5 different scripts. One script was English and another was Chinese. We were able to figure out the Chinese numbers pretty quickly. We then had to use our thinking skills to try and work out what the other numbers were. Some were easy and some were a bit tricky but we all managed to succeed. Once we began to make connections between the digits in a script, we were able to figure out the rest. This week in G3.1 we have been adding and subtracting 2 and 3 digit numbers. We then applied our knowledge to using money. We've had a lot of fun playing math games such as Capture 5 and Collect $2.00. Our first unit of the year is Who We Are and we are looking into the idea that 'with rights come responsibilities.'
We were looking at 52 children rights, choose one and telling each other what it meant to them. We started off by separating needs from wants. We then matched those needs to articles from the UN Convention of Child Rights. We chose a right from the convention that we then discussed in a group. Everybody in the group had to comment on each other's choice. We've looked at the short videos about children's rights getting denied. We then had to figure out which right was not being upheld and who's responsibility it was to uphold that right. - Written by Teddy, Aubrey, Nayoung and Miss Amin Hello! Welcome to our class blog. Each week the blog will be updated by either the students, the teacher or a mixture of both.
We have spent the last couple of weeks getting to know each other and setting up routines for a successful year. We've learnt that some of us love LEGO, some of us love crafting, there are a few who love unicorns and all things magical but the one thing we all have in common is our love of learning. Keep coming back to see what we get up to this year. |
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