Dear P1 Parents,
Welcome back!
Despite being a short week, we’ve been busy! We have exciting things to look forward to in the coming weeks. I will aim to send another note home in two weeks time to share what we’ve been learning and what we will continue to work on.
Dates to note:
03 May (Tuesday): Chelsea to Moshi for curriculum planning; Maree Raeburn covering
05 May (Thursday): FIELD TRIP to Dorobo (look for more details to come!)
05 May (Thursday): FIELD TRIP to Dorobo (look for more details to come!)
06 May (Friday): EC/P1/P12 will host Share Time (students will be performing a story they have been working on in Music with Mr. Meinertz)
09 May (Monday)- 08 June (Wednesday) : CCA’s run
10 June (Friday): Whole Primary Share Time hosted with the help of Erik Meinertz
10 June (Friday): Portfolios and reports home
14 June (Tuesday): Parent/student/teacher conferences
- POI: Our new Unit of Inquiry is titled: TUPO TANZANIA
o The following will guide our inquiry for the next 5-6 weeks (from 02 May-03 June) :
Central idea: people interact with, use and value the natural environment in different ways
Lines of inquiry:
· Local natural environment (form)
· Human use of local environment (causation)
· Actions that benefit or harm the local environment (perspective)
Teacher questions driving inquiry:
1) What is the local landscape? (form)
2) How do people use the local environment? (form)
3) What motivates people to act or use the environment the way they do? (causation)
4) Why do people have different points of view on using the environment? (perspective)
o If you have insight or experiences you could share with us as we explore ways people interact with and use the local environment or, how actions benefit or harm the environment, please let me know. We would really enjoy having you visit class.
- Literacy:
Reading/Writing: Students will be encouraged in the process of independently selecting both fiction and nonfiction texts and as they start to recognize personal preferences in reading. The skill of choosing just-right books will continue to be a focus. Ask your child about their book basket! We’ll begin ‘shopping’ for books Monday morning. Through small group instruction we will continue to look at the strategies good readers use when reading and what we can do when we come to tricky words. As we continue expressing ideas in a variety of forms we will work on correct letter formation, using high frequency words and relying on the sounds that are most obvious in a word. Students will continue exploring spelling patterns through ‘word family’ work. A focus during our Weekend News recount writing will be giving descriptions of past events using appropriate tenses.
Word study:
§ We’re continuing to work with long and short vowel sorts
§ We will look at these blends the next two weeks: br/cr/df/fr/gr/tr/pr
§ Word families we will be exploring: in/et/it/op/un
- Math: We will continue working with graphs as we collect, organize and interpret information. We will review topics of ime, temperature, graphing and the vocabulary more than/less than, area and perimeter, sides, corners, straight, curved, face, edge and further our understanding of 2D and 3D shapes. Students will spend time identifying patterns within the 100’s chart while gaining skills of counting by 2, 5, and 10. We will also spend time exploring the value of Tanzanian Shillings.
- A note on CCAs: Quarter 4 CCAs begin 09 May (Monday) and run through 08 June (Wednesday). Students will continue in their Quarter 3 CCA unless arrangements have been made through Jason Bowie.
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