Miss T's Classroom.

We have been ejoying the good weather, and have been practising our small ball skills – throwing and catching, at present. We have played some games that practise these skills.  We are moving towards developing some Softball skills.

Carol, the librarian, came up to visit us, and shared with us what she likes to read now and when she was young.  Then she read a story to us.  We will be walking down to the local library this week to meet her again and get some books out for reading. We can get two each and they go on a class card. She does let us bring our own cards, but then parents have to take responsibility for those.

This week we looked at our questions and asked where we might find answers.  We looked through some books, looking at the Table of Contents to help us, we found some books had some information about what we were looking for and some books had other information, but not what we were looking for.

On Thursday at the end of the week I tried some interactive writing with the class. One of the students acted as our writer and we gave him sentences, he wrote, and we summarised briefly how we had started this term’s topic, Colour Our World.  It gave me the opportunity to discuss the sense and some of the punctuation, spelling etc. It was the first time I had tried this and I thought it very worthwhile.

This is what we wrote.

We began working about colour in our world. Firstly, we thought about what words came to mind when we heard the word colour.

•  Then we read a book called, Wait! No Paint!  Next we asked some questions about colour. We used these words to start our questions.

Who, Where, When, Why, Which, What, How.                                           Finally we read a book called Get Red. All this work has begun our topic, Colour Our World.     

This year I hope to post here regularly, to keep our school community and others informed as to what is happening in my classroom.  I hope to post my term class newsletters here, along with some of the things we are doing, especially the topic we study each term. 

This term is one of exploration for me.  Eventually I hope to add in the students, and enable them to publish some of there work.