Our houses

Alba and I made some houses. One house is made of triangle blocks and it is a hotel. It has three bedrooms.
The other house is made of paper and boxes and it is a gingerbread house. We used a box to hold the paper together because the house kept falling down.

 We were playing families with the houses. We visited each other's house.

New Maths Goal

I have a new goal. I am learning to count backwards from 20.

Writing a Letter

Tomorrow we are going to ride our bikes at school.  We are learning and reading about lots of different bikes and what they can do.   We wrote a note home asking if we could bring our bikes to school.  Fingers crossed I am allowed too.  Whoops I forgot to write I need to bring my bike helmet too!

Student Led Conferences

Alba is showing her family that she is ready to move on to a new maths goal.

My Reading

Great work on your reading Alba, you are looking carefully at the beginning sounds.

Snakes and Ladders

In a maths workshop some of the children were learning how to count in twos, fives, tens.  We went outside and used the  numbers on the snakes and ladders grid to help us learn our goal. 

 The next day Darcy, Jesse and Alba went outside and played Snakes and Ladders using a large dice Jesse had found. When Mrs Johnson went outside to see  what they were playing she was amazed how they were independently playing snakes and ladders and how they were all following the rules of the game.  Each player was supporting each other to count on  and move to the right number which was a bit tricky as the numbers on the dice went up to nine!

Writing Workshop

Today, Alba came to a workshop to work on her writing goal. She is learning to write more than one sentence to explain what is happening in her stories. We used our Peppa Pig magnets to create a picture. Then Alba shared the sentences she wanted to write with her group. She used the magnetic words and her word card to record her sentences.

'Peppa Pig and Mrs Pig is going to a fair. George and Daddy Pig is going to get a balloon'.

Author's Chair 2

Alba was working really hard during Write to Self time.  
She was using her word card to help her find words.
You are a great author, Alba!

Achieving my Writing Goal

Alba has been working really hard on her writing goal of hearing the first sounds in words and writing them down.  She is able to write sentences more independently with this skill.

Alba has chosen her next writing goal and is now working on trying to write more than one sentence in her stories.

An Alien

This is my alien. 
The marbles and the toothpaste lids are the hair on my alien. The skin is very smooth and cold and made out of stones. My alien has two short pink legs. It also has spikes on her sides. She lives on a planet somewhere called planet Bong. This alien has come to visit me. I am going to play games with my alien. When we have finished playing my alien will go back home to her planet.

Six Layer Cake

Alba has been persevering on her writing goal, which is to record the initial sounds of words. Today at library time, we read a story about a wolf who wanted to make Chicken Stew. The wolf baked lots of yummy food for the chicken to fatten it up. We wondered what delicious recipes we would bake if we were the wolf. In our workshop, we decided on a recipe we would cook if we were the wolf. This is Alba's recipe for Six Layer Cake.  It has strawberries, butter and flour in it. Look at all those beginning sounds Alba has written down. Great work!