Weekly letter: parlez vous francais?

The week we go straight back into the swing of things with our Inquiry, language and maths work. On Monday the Maths and Inquiry projects where given out to a chorus of cheers and a thousand questions. You can view the Inquiry assessment on the blog here. For the maths project the class was split into groups and asked to make a real treasure map for the rest of the class to follow. The instructions where simple; demonstrate what we have learnt about girds and coordinates;

Grid points and coordinates

Data handling

Learning outcomes

• understand that scale can represent different quantities in graphs

Transferring meaning

• identify, read and interpret range and scale on graphs 

They also had to make it complex enough to demonstrate their depth of understanding, have multiple clues and they have to make it fun and challenging for the people who are going on the hunt.

After giving out the two assignments the biggest problem I am facing now is trying to to stop working on them and go home at the end of the day!

In writing, all the students are still enjoying working on their explorers journals so we have continued to work on them.

Have a good weekend!

Because of the lack of time I have been able to spend on the computer of late I have not been able to put everything  we have been doing on the blog. Below  is a bit of a pictorial essay of some of the things we got up to the week before the Autumn break. 

sisters making plates together during International week.

International week morning tea. We had steamed buns, dumplings, rice and egg noodles

we mixed our Chinese Yum Cha with the snacks we brought from home. The best thing I saw was a German student eating a pretzel with chop sticks

more food

Ever Monday we spend half an hour helping year 1 with their reading. We also helped out our Year 1 friends collect bugs, worms and creepy-crawly and at the same time using our exploration skills


On Friday afternoon I played a song as everyone was leaving. I informed the class that I was continually surprised by the great work of some of the students this week and when I though about it I realized most of them are expats from one country.

P.S. I was also planning this Monday to gloat about Australia beating France in rugby again. But after watching the game on Saturday night I think I will keep quiet...