DATE  14th June-18th June 2010

People use a variety of skills and strategies that contribute to their role in a community of learners.

LINES OF INQUIRY:

·       Being part of a community of learners (connection)

·       Skills, strategies and attitudes (connection and reflection)

·       My preferred learning style and intelligence (reflection)

Learner Profile:

Principled, Communicators, Open-minded

 
There are 5 essential elements:

1.    CONCEPTS  

            Connection

            Reflection

2.    KNOWLEDGE

How we organize ourselves

3.    SKILLS

THINKING SKILLS
   

·      Analysis (seeing relationships, finding unique characteristics)

 

SELF-MANAGEMENT SKILLS

.      organisation, time-management

SOCIAL SKILLS

.      Co-operation, group decision making, adopting a variety of roles

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

·      Presenting

4.    ATTITUDES

·      Empathy, tolerance and co-operation

5.    ACTION

What you do

INQUIRY and LANGUAGE FOCUS

• Play a variety of games. Focus on attitudes: tolerance, empathy, co-operatio

• Focus on music smart and body smart - children perform a song, dance or routine to the class

• Children inquire into the ways stories start. They then create their own story (word smart).
  

Writing focus :  recount (focus on fullstops and capital letters). Discuss quality and quantity.

Handwriting

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Spelling

Children will select their own spellings  to learn.

All words will go home in their spelling books this week

MATHEMATICS

Mental Mathematics revision: 

Main Objectives

Exploring number pattterns.

Division - understanding that dividing by 2 is the same as halving

Multiplication (2x, 5x, 10x, and 3x)

Art

Making puppets, paper mache and sewing

ICT/Library

Children type their story starters.

Change library books