Week 3

Week 3 - Room 8 is a busy little place to be...

Here we are making our little finger muscles stronger with fine motor activities.

We learnt about the importance of having strong finger muscles for handwriting and story writing. The stronger they are, the easier it will be for us to write stories which is important for little authors in training.

 Look at the concentration on our faces...

Picking up beans with tweezers can be a bit tricky

Threading beads is not as easy as it looks but the more we practise the easier it gets

Bean sorting with tweezers and Pick up sticks with a peg. These activities need a lot of concentration.

Next...

Our second Table Tennis lesson

We enjoyed our second table tennis lesson.

We started with a warm up of follow the leader. We had a buddy to follow or lead

Next Mrs Blau dropped a ball in front of us and we had to pat the ball, once on our side and get it over the net and into the container on the other side. 

Oh so tricky! But, practise makes permanent!

We finished our lesson with patting the balloons on the racquet.

This time, it was a lot easier.

Next...

Here we are after a few writing lessons.

We are getting a lot better at being little authors.

We have remembered to leave spaces or driveways (as Mrs Blau calls them) between our words. There is so many things to remember when we write. But we are doing a great job of practising.

Next...

Here we are reading from our group reading boxes.

We started formal reading this week. Lots of new things to learn each week.

We started learning how to...

Say the parts of a book - front cover, back cover, spine and title page

Predict what the story is about, by looking at the front cover

Predict what words might be on each page by looking at the pictures

Point to each word we are reading

Work out the tricky words by using the pictures

The Butterflies

 The Lady Bugs

The Busy Bees 

Next...

Here we are creating our Greedy Cat pictures

First we drew the outline on sugar paper with chalk then we sponge painted the orange and brown.

Table 3

Table 2

Table 1

Here we are with Room 19 
using our Key Competencies 
in the sandpit for buddy class.

We are... 
Sharing ideas
Playing cooperatively
Collaborating on tasks
Problem solving
Negotiating