Good
Afternoon,
A few quick notes for you from the Chameleon class.
The third week of the school year has come to an end,
it started with our parent evening that, I feel, was a great success. Thank you
to all the parents who were able to attend. During this time we also nominated
Mrs Wellens as a new parent representative, joining Mrs Bühler in her current
role. There was some uncertainty whether this would be permitted, however after
checking with the leadership team, I found that this is allowed.
We’ve had some wonderful readers workshop sessions and
I have now completed all the reading assessments for children in the class,
these will help me to group children for specific guided reading sessions that
will mostly be held by Mrs Petschick. As well as that all of us are now able to
effectively retell a story in large chronological steps. I will be asking
pupils to take home their reading records this weekend and keep track of when
they read, this can be English or German. We will be looking at their reading
habit on Monday during the session.
In writers workshop children developed two effective
ways to plan their stories before they start writing. One being creating
believable characters who have realistic strengths and flaws, the other is
understand that all stories follow a story arc, children worked on how to draw
a story arc plan to help develop ideas.
In math the Chameleons completed the first check in
quiz which will be coming home next week with pupils. Please ask to have a look
at their results, on the back of the quiz it clearly shows areas that will
still need to be worked on by pupils. We cannot give too much more time in class for these areas.
Here is an overview of the areas of study we will
focus on next week:
English:
This week we are really going to try and cement our
understanding of the writing process. Pupils will be going through the steps of
thinking of ideas, planning with a character sketch and story arc and then
eventually drafting their ideas, turning them into sentences.
Pupils will begin to work on guided reading groups
this week as well as develop a more consistent attitude to reading. We will be
visiting the class library this week and pupils will be allowed to check books
out. This year things have changed slightly, pupils will be able to check out 3
English books and 3 German books. I am asking that all pupils take out at least
1 book of each language.
Math:
We will be finishing the place value pathway on Monday
and the complete the final check in for this unit on Tuesday morning. Following
that I will be introducing the next unit of addition and I’ll distribute the
new pathway.
Science:
On Monday 19th I will be giving the Chameleons a quiz
to check in how many of the states and capitals they have learned pupils; saw
the format of the quiz last week and I feel confident in pupils knowledge.
Humanities:
Pupils will think about the idea of a growth mindset
and think about how having this can help them in their everyday life.
Art:
We will be looking at a range of different minimalist
artists this week. We will look at what minimalist art is and begin to design
our own minimalist art created using a collage technique.
German:
Liebe Eltern der Chamäleon-Klasse,
in dieser Woche haben wir uns im Bereich Sprache mit
Wortfeldern und Ober-/Unterbegriffen beschäftigt. Zudem haben wir die
Rechtschreibstrategien der letzten Woche weiter vertieft. Besonders stolz waren
viele Schüler, als sie ihre fertigen Feriengeschichten der Klasse präsentieren
könnten.
Zu Ihrer allgemeinen Information: Die 1. Klassenarbeit
im Fach Deutsch wird in der 40. Kalenderwoche geschrieben. Der genaue Termin
sowie die Themen werden noch festgesetzt. Ab der kommenden Woche arbeiten wir
im Fach Deutsch mit einem Wochenplan.
Herzliche Grüße und ein erholsames Wochenende
Agnes Fojcik
Sports:
Last week we ensured all students ran for 5 minutes
without stopping. This week we will be pushing it to 8 minutes.
We will continue to work on our character strength of
perseverance by working towards running at a steady pace for 10 minutes
straight.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Sincerely,
Mario Civico and the entire Chameleon team.
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