It's amazing how fast a week goes by when there is so much going on. This week we had a jam-packed schedule of reviews, outings, guest speakers, new learning units, projects and dodging rain downpours.
The week kicked off with the class sitting down to do their maths review on numbers (rounding, place value, estimation, bench-marks, and mental math strategies). After all the study we did the week before everyone was ready to go. I can't remember seeing so many students wanting to take a maths test before.
On Tuesday we started our new 'mini' unit on addition and subtraction with a focus on decimals (money and length) and fractions, this unit will only continue for the next two weeks. We also started to use our friendly letter mail box, which became so full that friendly letters had to be passed out on a daily bases. In writing we finished off our letter to someone special and started to bring in envelopes and stamps so we could post them at the end of the week.
On Wednesday we invited Lyam's (with a Y) mum to have an early lunch at BAMBA with us and then picked up Vida's mum up on the way out of school on our excursion to the World Culture Museum. We had planned to spend an hour having a guided tour around the museum and looking at things that will help us understand perspective better in regards to beliefs and values.
How things change so quickly!
We meet our guide Enrico who was going to show us around at the entrance of the museum. After a few minutes through our introduction talk someone asked Enrico where he come from. He told us that he grew up in the middle of the Amazon rainforest. The rest of the hour was spent listening to how Enrico grew up under the laws of his tribe, his escape from a mission school, and how he and three other escapee boys from 9 years of age worked all day in a bakery while going to school at nights. If you want to know more please quiz your child on what they though was the most interesting thing they learnt during the visit. On a side note Enrico is helping the people at the Universeum build a tradition Amazonian tribal house which will be ready in Spring.
On Thursday we booked the schools ipads to help us with our research on Inquiry project. For some of us it was a lesson not just in researching but in using the ipads.
Finial, the week rapped up on Friday with Liam's (with an I) mum giving all of Year 4 a mini workshop. This was a great hour that helped students get a different prospection on well, perspective. Liam's mum, Lisa also brought in her own model in the form of her mother (a retired teacher) who was visiting from Canada.
During our maths lesson we again booked the ipads and spent time using our knowledge we had learnt over the week with addition and subtraction of whole numbers and decimals to complete activities. After lunch we braved the rain to post our letters via the local store, as a few people had to buy some stamps. Everyone was very excited to finally put their letters in the yellow post box. When we got back to class it was 14.30 and when I told them to have a good weekend some students responded with "what? is it home time already?"
*I will be adding information on what we will be doing during week 39 soon.
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