We had a mega-literacy session this morning. To begin with, we used the 2016 NAPLAN prompt to inspire our writing. Each student had a planning page to remind us of the features of a narrative and to help scaffold elements of our story including: details of setting, time and character; the conflict or problem in the story; and the resolution, how the story ends. Mrs Downes and Emily were in the classroom and it was wonderful having three people able to help students with this task.
There are a few photos of the class with their hands up in the air. Everyone was so engaged in the writing task (I was ever so slightly concerned the mention of naplan may add pressure for some students - apparently not!), I asked the class, "Who loves writing?" Looks like everyone!!
After recess classes separated into the cross-stage maths groups we have been trialling. We are focusing on place value (thousands, hundreds, tens and ones) as well as addition, subtraction and number facts. Number facts refer to a student's ability to transfer known number facts (2+3=5), to more difficult tasks such as 20+30=50 and 200+300=500
Therefore 5-3=2 50-30=20 500-300=200 You can see that place value is very important here too.
We found a few spare minutes to write a persuasive letter to Santa this afternoon as well.