Friday 31 May 2013

Sight Word Apps

Here are some apps that we use in the learning studio to help us learn our Sight words. We love using them as they are really helping us learn and remember our words. We would love to use them at home too. They are challenging and fun. So mum and dad, have a look and see what you think.....

    1.Word Bingo - $0.99
Here is the link:-

 2. Play Sight Words - and this one is free
Here is the link:-

 3. Play Sight Words - and this one is free too
Here is the link:-
https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/sight-words-list-learn-to/id447065810?mt=8

Partners of Ten

This week we have been learning about addition. We have used different types of concrete materials such as counters, paddle pop sticks, tens frames and numicon shapes to explore all the different ways that we can make ten.

Here are some of our combinations using our Numicon Frames:-

             5 and 5 makes 10

                6 and 4 makes 10 or
                4 and 6 makes 10
             
               9 and 1 makes 10    or
               1 and 9 makes 10


               7 and 3 makes 10 or
               3 and 7 makes 10

                2 and 8 makes 10 or
                8 and 2 makes 10


This week KLS1 learned a new EMU warm-up game called 'Roll and Collect'. This games helped us with our addition skills and finding ways to count on or simply count using a quicker way. 







How to play:
We play roll and collect in pairs. 
Each pair has a bundle of paddle pop sticks, counters or other concrete materials as well as one dice. During this game Miss Tomasic is the time keeper and gives us one minute to complete this taks. 
The task is that within one minute, each pair continously takes turn to roll a dice and then collect that many objects. Once time is up, each partner counts how many objects they have altogether. Some students count by 1's, some are beginning to count by 2's. 

Maybe we could play together at home???

Today (4/6/13) Our task was to explore how we could use two die to add numbers together. 
Well we discovered that if we rolled the dice we could use the two numbers to create an addition number sentence. For example if we rolled the above numbers we could record that 6 and 5 makes 11 AND we could count on too. Instead of counting every dot one by one, we could start with the number 6 and count on the other 5 by saying, 7, 8, 9, 10,11. How amazing are we???

Take a look at us hard at work...















How amazing are we?????


Sunday 26 May 2013

Writing and Meeting our Learning Goals

Every time we engage in Independent Writing, our teachers give us a specific goal to work on. We then have to check our work to see if we have achieved that goal. Can you check and see if we have reached them??

Here are some examples:
Learning Goal - To use spaces between our words.










Learning Goal - To use adjectives (descriptive words) in our writing.














Learning Goal - To use write a recount that tells When (time the event happened), Where (the setting of the recount) and Who (who were we with)







As you can see, we have come a long way from the days when we didn't know our letters, sounds or sight words. Every day we become more creative and greater risk takers. We work on our sight words, sounds and letters everyday. Everyday we look forward to our next writing challenge. Our favourite is still Friday Free choice writing. Maybe you could practise writing with me at home and make sure that I am learning my sight words and sounds. Once I know them, I need to be able to put them in a sentence and recognise them in different places and contexts.