Week four and things are ticking away nicely.
8.00am students start arriving
8.40am students start settling into class
Silent reading, quiet work, some students use the time to complete a bit of homework. Book review reminders.
8.50am students are in class, quiet time whilst the roll in done, permission slips handed in (School cross-country, Take Action Field trip, Zone Cross-Country), Louis timetable established, notices and reminders read out.
9.00am – Today we did ‘Accuracy for Writing’ This is a programme we are doing in the senior school focusing on improving student writing accuracy. Mainly focusing on grammar, punctuation and spelling. (Learning Intention: Students will have an understanding of the editing process, follow guidelines in order to find errors in a piece of text)
9.20am – Change over for maths. For maths we are focusing on ‘Measurement’ looking at area and moving on to exploring volume. As well as looking at multiplication and division strategies. (Learning Intention: Understand how to measure the area of compound shapes. Understand area in everyday life and explore multiplication strategies)
10.20am – Cross-country training. I love seeing everyone out and about, running in preparation for next weeks school cross-country. A bit wet today, but still a good effort from everyone.
Play.
10.50am – Language – Continuation of our writing focuses on Explorations. Today we started processing our brainstorms and planning, to create an explanation which meets a set criteria.
(Learning Intention: Understand how to use criteria as a checklist for success and use a planning model to aid writing)
11.50am – PE - Looking at effective stretches in line with cross-country - Stretches
Lunch
1.30pm – Silent Reading – Conferencing of writing and goals.
1.45pm - Take Action For Water.
Today we are looking at how animals breathe in water, breathing features and food webs.
(Learning Intention: Students will identify the different ways aquatic animals breathe. Learn about the interaction between plants and animals. Learn about animals with special features for feeding)
2.45pm Reflection, reminders and homework out
7 comments:
Brilliant - sounds as though you are working pretty hard in room 23.
i nearly ran into the lamppost XD
Hey Mr Eames
that thing is so cool.
Ruth
yeah rm 23 is the best class in the school we are the bomb
Fantastic, busy class.
This is a cool website: www.ixl.com/math/practice/
Hey Room23 looking good!
You are doing lots of cool work
(well of course I know I'm in room23)
looks like you in room 23 are having lots of fun.
from Axel =D
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