The Wonderful Wizard of Oz!

We had a fantastic Book Week here at RM! The kids absolutely loved 'The Wizard of Oz' and enjoyed taking part in role play and the various art activities that were set out for them.

We made wizard hats and counted out stars as a part of our Maths lesson.

We also laid bricks for the 'yellow brick road' leading to the Emerald City! This was a fun way of learning number ordering.

 We also did a 'laying brick' craft where the kids had to recognise the number and match/count the correct number of bricks.

As a literacy lesson, the kids learnt how to sequence a story. We had a chat about the characters of the book, who their favourite character was and what happened in the story. 

We also learnt how to 'blend' our first words!! What an exciting week! I am so proud of RM for trying so hard - it was a great start. 

 We made the individual sounds - m -o -p, then tried to say the word 'mop'

 Having pictures was very helpful.

 We used our clothes line to put the sounds together.

 They had to look at the word and find the correct letters - then put them in the correct order.

 Wizard of Oz came to teach one of our phonics lessons!

Then he turned into 'Miss.Myshi ' :) 

We covered the sound 'g' and the kids did really well. This is a tricky letter because the sound and letter do not match g (makes the sound of j). So I would like parents to practice saying this out with kids at home. 

We also had a lot of free flow play during our Art, Science and PSED lessons. They had a lot of fun re-creating images from the story book. 

 I was very impressed with the drawings!

There were a lot of fun tea parties in the Emerald city too!

Nari and Pailin used junk to make a very cool telephone! Later during the week, Irene joined the fun!

We worked in groups to make the 'Emerald City'! This was a part of working together and sharing space and all the groups did really well. 

We had some reading buddies visit us from Primary, it was a lot of fun having them read to us!

 We also had some special teachers come to read to us from Primary and Secondary. It was refreshing for the kids to see new teachers and hear brand new stories!

The teachers took part in some role play and the kids loved it!

  

Later on, the Wizard of Oz is going to visit our class to give out certificates to those who have been wonderful friends to each other!

Our star of the week is Nari because she took part in all the class activities and did really well in our first lesson of blending sounds. 

Here is our review of week 6 and preview of week 7. 

	This Week	Next Week
Literacy	This week, we covered the sounds ‘g’ and ‘o’. We also made an attempt at blending the sounds already learnt to make words. It was very exciting! The kids should be aware of the words ‘cat’, ‘mat’, ‘cap’, ‘map’ and ‘tap’.	Next week, we will revise the sounds already learnt and continue to practice blending (reading words). We will also introduce the kids to the words ‘I’, ‘the’, ‘was’, ‘to’, ‘are’ and ‘she’. These are called camera words because they do not follow the same rules as normal words – so the kids need to make an effort to remember these words by memorizing. We will be making a camera to help kids remember these words.
Math	We focused on the number ‘8’ this week. It was tricky to form so we focused on it all week. Please continue to practice these and 1-7 at home.	We will focus on number formation of ‘9’ and ‘10’, next week. We will also learn how to match quantities and mentally represent these numbers. We will continue to practice reciting from 1-20. We will also cover patterns and symmetry.
Science	We looked at extreme weather like cyclones and tornados and how they form. We also talked about Kansas and where it is in the world.	We will talk about places that we have visited around the world and what we liked/disliked about those places. We will also talk about animals that we like/dislike. We will revise foods and what happens to the food when we eat. We will teach this through the book ‘My flip flap body’.
Art	We worked as a group to make the Emerald City. Then we made a very cool Ruby Slippers craft. By doing this, we learnt two new colours – Emerald and Ruby.	Next week, Art will be all about expressing ourselves through dance and role-play. We will link our topic
PSED (Book Day)	Our book, The Wizard of Oz, taught us about the importance of ‘love’ and ‘courage’. We then linked this to various scenarios and how we can be brave and loving every day.	We will read the book ‘Dragons love Tacos’ and then make our very own taco from junk. We will use this to talk about where Tacos come from, the type of food we like/dislike and how we can make a fun taco!
Physical	This was linked to Freeze during our class party!	We will be singing the jungle boogie song and come up with various moves for the different animals!
Home Learning	We had a great week learning about ‘g’ and ‘8’. But these were quite difficult for some of the kids to grasp. So please practice making the sounds and forming the number at home for their benefit.
Notices and Events	Thank you for all your support this week regarding the Book Week Presentation and class party. Next week, the signup sheets for the parent teacher conferences will go out (in front of the EY building) – please be sure to sign up. Parent teacher conferences will be held during Week 8. Thank you, Miss.Myshi :)