Week 29: Numbers Stories and Respect

Weekly Centres

Sight Word Writing

Using removable Sight Words from our Sight Word Wall, we've been practising writing some of these words on grids that Mr. McCullough made for us!

3D Shape Making

With toothpicks and plasticine, we've tried to recreate a variety of 3D shapes.

Magnificent Tree, Now in 3D!!!

To help show the difference between a 2D shape and a 3D shape, we used recycled materials like boxes, paper rolls and plastic containers and bottles to create free-standing versions of our Magnificent Trees!

Spring Flower Sketching

We've tried drawing some of the flowers in our class collection, trying to make them as realistic as possible.

Number Stories with Dots

Given no more than 5 dots, we created simple number stories, like 3 bees flying to 2 flowers to pollinate them.  Some of us were able to write parts of our story all by ourselves!

Books We Read

The Greedy Triangle

My Princess Boy

Oliver Button is a Sissy

Keep Climbing, Girls!

Song of the Week - The 3D Dee Dee

Sung to the tune of Hokey Pokey, with 3D shapes being substituted for body parts

You put your cube in,

You take your cube out.

You put your cube in,

And you shake it all about.

You do the 3D Dee Dee and you go and seek one out.

That's what it's all about!

Other Things We Did

On the International Day of Pink, we talked about bullying, how it's never okay to make fun of somebody for being different, and how there's pretty much no such thing as clothes or colours that are just "for boys" or "for girls". 

There was a surprise fire drills, which we all did very well at, even though it was cold outside!

With the 3D Dee Dee song in the background, we searched our room for objects that were, or were similar to, spheres, cubes, pyramids, cones and triangular and rectangular prisms.

We kept playing "That's Not a Number" and having our Number Dance Party while practising our number printing skills!

We talked about the difference between a regular story (These bees are flying to those flowers) and a number story (Three bees are flying to two flowers). 

We started leaving letters and words out of our Daily Message to see who could fill in the missing spaces.