HR_Weekly Update_ 21st to 28th August

Literacy
Objectives:
  • Students will be able to work on independent writing
  • Students will be able to build on their writing stamina
  • Students will be able to understand the characteristics of an effective personal narrative
  • Students will be able to internalize the routines of independent reading

Learning Engagements:

  • Students created "Welcome to my world" charts and listed all the things they love, feel, admire, and are passionate about.
  • Students generated a baseline writing piece using the four prompts (I wonder, I remember, I observe, I imagine).
  • Students explored writing one special moment they experienced in their life.
  • Students read books of their choice for increasing periods of time (reading stamina) through the Daily 5.


Math
Objectives: 

  • Students will continue to review number systems - number names, place value, ascending and descending order, and ordering numbers.

Learning Engagements:

  • Students continued to play games which helped them to recapitulate the concepts learned.
  • Students worked on hands-on activities with manipulatives to understand the concept of place value.

Unit of Inquiry
Objectives:
  • Students will be able to understand the different food groups.
  • Students will brainstorm what foods give us and arrive at the term nutrients.
  • Students will be able to understand how different nutrients help our body and how daily food habits affect us.

Learning Engagements:

  • Students sorted various food pictures in different categories.
  • Student analysed their snack and lunch food and placed different food pictures in the food pyramid.
  • Students designed their own lunch plate using the app 'Pages' on an iPad.
  • Students derived what nutrients were available in their lunch plates and listed them down.


  Library session with Ms. Ishani.


Video watching on food groups and nutrients.


Math Fun- Expanded form!


Reading more about the function of nutrients.


Time to share and celebrate our writing!


Daily 5-Read to someone!


Math-ascending and descending order!


Grouping food into different categories!