And here we are again! Week one passed quickly indeed.
In writing, we focused purely on speech writing. Some of the children are still struggling to come up with an idea for their persuasive speech so I have suggested they do some research over the weekend and try their best to come up with an idea. Please discuss this at home or they will have another week of struggle! Speeches are in week 3.
In Maths, we looked at some addition strategies and then looked at the 'old' way of adding using algorithms; the children picked this up really quickly.
For reading I am trying a different approach this term: quality over quantity. I realised over the holidays that I tried to cover too many areas in Reading last term. This term, the children will have one reading comprehension activity to complete during the week and when they have done that to the best of their ability, only then can they move on to something else.
What else..
On Tuesday we had external soccer coaches come in and take the children for some soccer drills and games:
On Friday, we continued our work on voice projection and using expressive voices in order to help prepare for Production.
Mia Harris brought in some of the new milk bottle lollies for the children to try in order to survey their reactions. She had a range of questions, the answers to which she is going to use as part of her speech.
On Friday afternoon in Assembly, the guitar group + singers performed 'Firework' - here's a snippet:
A great week indeed.
