Monday: well, we spent all morning in the Garden to Table room making Bliss Balls and Moro Bar slices.. guess which one was the healthy snack! Many thanks to the mums who came in to help and a massive thanks to Birgitte Harris for putting it all together. The children had a great time and a real world learning experience. The experience has given the children an insight into the amount of rubbish that goes into unhealthy food and how relatively simple it is to create much healthier snacks. I am hoping they will be able to draw on this experience when they begin their own inquiry work into creating a healthy snack and a business plan to market it.
Maths: we spent the whole week on subtraction of whole numbers and subtraction of decimals for those that were ready. The children who are competent at subtraction worked on Maths projects and then started thinking about how to create their own.
Writing: we followed up the G to T day with some procedural writing. The children simply had to write the procedure for either making Bliss Balls (BTW. a lot of snickering in class when I say this name!) or Moro Bars using the correct structure. We also did a short story writing drill.. in answering a series of leading questions, the children create a story.
Reading: not much to report here.. I introduced some SOLO reading tasks to the children that will be a part of the reading rotation in the future and continued with comprehension work.
Augie sharing a book with the class:
Mia Harris, adopting a classic 'let's get down to some serious writing' pose...
Fitness-a-thon: REMINDER!
The children MUST bring back their sponsorship cards so that I can write in the percentage improvement and sign them. Naturally, I shall be taking the opportunity in Maths to teach the children how we work out percentages and then I will compare my answer with theirs..
A dynamic game of octopus.. 5 minutes after the Fitness-a-thon run!! Where do they get the energy?
The game that was... Octopus!
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