Week+Eight+T3+2014

- sight word testing- buddy reading
 * **Monday 1st September** ||
 * **9:15- 11:00** || **Literacy**

- students give personal news - writing about news using time to talk format.

- Rotation: working with the teacher, spelling city, magnetic words & copying unknown sight words into book. ||  || TEN Dot pattern Cards DENS 1 pg 169 (AJ & Kai) Doubles Plus One DENS 1 pg 263 (Tash & Maddie)
 * **11:00- 11:30** || **Recess** ||  ||
 * **11:30- 1:00** || **Math**

All: using measuring cups and sand students explore whole, half and quarter cupfuls. K pg 100 1 pg 108 ||  || - Students take turns playing the following activity [|Weather Wheel] - Discuss clothing choices and what the material feels like. - Hand out different samples of materials. Get the students to discuss what they feel like and what clothing they could be made into. Discuss what weather they would be worn in. - ASSESSMENT TASK Students are given a material sample. They need to design an outfit to be made from the material sample and choose the weather it should be worn in. - This task is modelled by the teacher using one fabric sample and then students are given one each to complete the task independently. ||  ||
 * **1:00- 1:45** || **Lunch** ||  ||
 * **1:45- 3:00** || **Science**
 * **1:45- 3:00** || **Science**
 * **3:00- 3:10** || **Pack up and bus** ||  ||
 * || **Dismissal** // Natasha Dunn // ||

- sight word testing (during silent reading): get each student to read through their sight word list to you. Once they get the word right they get a sticker. The other students test each other and practise their words. - buddy reading
 * **Tuesday 2nd September** ||
 * **9:15- 11:00** || **Literacy**

- revise double letter phonics: hold up apple cards and get students to say sounds. Revise any they had trouble with.

spelling focus- ou -revise 'ou'. Write up on smartboard, get students to think of words that have the sound in them. Complete worksheet.

- discuss: how do we celebrate christmas? does everyone do the same things? - read the first two pages of 'children around the world celebrate christmas' - look up china on google maps and show the students. - discus and compare the differences and similarities between christmas in Australia and China. - Modell writing and then students complete individually in books; Writing "In China...." ||  || Number Recognition Practise: Place all number cards upside down on the carpet. Students take turns choosing a card, if they say it s name right they get to keep it, if not they put it back. AJ & Kai (1-30) Tash & Maddie (1-100) TEN Activities Tash & Maddie: Doubles Plus One Kai & AJ: Dot Pattern Cards
 * **11:00- 11:30** || **Recess** ||  ||
 * **11:30- 1:00** || **Math**

All: make a piece of fairy bread for each student. Cut into halves, then quarters and eighths, taking a photo at each stage.

Targeting Math Books: K pg 101 1 pg 109 ||  || - Discuss what is a safe feeling and what is an unsafe feeling. Create a mind map for each as a class discussing what you are thinking, feeling and how your body reacts towards each. - Discuss, who keeps you safe? - Question: where are safe places to play? why? - Discuss: what can you do when your feel unsafe? who can help you. - Role play unsafe situations where students have to use the NO GO TELL method. ||  ||
 * **1:00- 1:45** || **Lunch** ||  ||
 * **1:45- 3:00** || **PDHPE**
 * **1:45- 3:00** || **PDHPE**
 * **3:00- 3:10** || **Pack up and bus** ||  ||
 * || **Dismissal** ||

- sight word testing (during silent reading): get each student to read through their sight word list to you. Once they get the word right they get a sticker. The other students test each other and practise their words. - buddy reading
 * **Wednesday 3rd September** ||
 * **9:15- 11:00** || **Literacy**

- revise double letter phonics: hold up apple cards and get students to say sounds. Revise any they had trouble with.

spelling focus- oi - revise 'oi'. Write up on smartboard, get students to think of words that have the sound in them. Complete worksheet.

sight word activities: Two students on ipads making unknown words with magnetic letters app. The other two students working with teacher practising words and writing unknown ones into their literacy book.

reading groups: reading with two students while the other two are on reading eggs and then swap. (groupings- Tash & Maddie, AJ & Kai) ||  || Sit in the classroom and observe.
 * **11:00- 11:30** || **Recess** ||  ||
 * **11:30- 1:00** || **Scripture**

TEN Activities Tash & Maddie: Doubles Plus One Kai & AJ: Dot Pattern Cards
 * Math**

All: in pairs students take turn to roll a dice. They share the equivalent number of counters and the remaining are put to the side. Students record this process

Targting Math Workbook: K Assessment pg 139 1 Assessment pg 151

(If time permits) Number Recognition Practise: Place all number cards upside down on the carpet. Students take turns choosing a card, if they say it s name right they get to keep it, if not they put it back. AJ & Kai (1-30) Tash & Maddie (1-100) ||  || - Discuss what is a material? - watch the following video: [|introducing materials] - List materials on the smart board? [|Materials Powerpoint] - Play the following game: [|grouping materials] - Discuss how materials can change. Refer to how play dough can change shape, bend and stretch. Give students some play dough each to test this. - Question the students as to what other materials can change and how? - Give students a balloon each and get them to blow them up and discuss how they change shape. - Discuss what happens when you turn a hot plate on and why it changes colour. Discuss what happens to the water and how it changes temperature. - Question is the material still the same when it is changed? ||  ||
 * **1:00- 1:45** || **Lunch** ||  ||
 * **1:45- 3:00** || **Science**
 * **1:45- 3:00** || **Science**
 * **3:00- 3:10** || **Pack up and bus** ||  ||
 * || **Dismissal** // Natasha Dunn // ||