Procedures, Exhibition & Mystery Reader

This week we spent a lot of time looking at different procedures and what makes a procedure effective or ineffective. Mr Jon modelled to the class how to make a cup of tea. We first talked about the materials that you would need in order to make the tea. Then we watched the procedure and talked about each step. It is a very simple activity that was easy for the students to observe and note the various steps.

Next, in pairs the students had to put the pictures of Mr Jon making a cup of tea into the correct order and write the instructions to go with each step. They did a great job!

We also discussed the other procedures that we have done. Skype call, making playdough, making a book and calling our parents. In pairs again we drew and wrote the steps of one of these procedures.

We also brainstormed before this all the materials we needed for each activity and the "bossy" words that we might have used during the activity.

On Wednesday morning we were so lucky to be invited by our Grade 5 buddies to their rehearsal of their PYPX exhibition. It was amazing and if any of you went on Wednesday night or Thursday morning you will know what I'm talking about! The Grade ones were so proud of their buddies as they have watched and followed the process over the past 6 or so weeks. The amazing amount of time, effort and work that has gone into producing such outstanding learning is just fantastic! We in Grade One were so lucky to have shared the learning journey with our buddies :-)

Mystery Reader

A very big THANK YOU to Erin Fellows (Anna's Mum) for once again being our awesome mystery reader. We are so grateful for your time and fantastic stories :-) All the children were delighted to have someone new in the class to read a story and they absolutely loved both stories. They were so quiet and attentive!

The first book Erin read - "But excuse me that is my book" written by Lauren Child. We are all huge fans in our class of Charlie and Lola so any story from them always gets a laugh. In this book Charlie and Lola are off to the library. Lola has become obsessed with Beetles, Bugs, and Butterflies, the best book in the whole world. It’s funny, it has pictures, and it is "very great and extremely very interesting." It’s the only book she wants to take out of the library. But when she finds out it has been taken out by someone else Charlie has to try all sorts of ways to get Lola to look at other books.

The second book that Erin read - "Down the back of the chair" written by (one of my favourite NZ authors) Margaret Mahy. Dad loses his car keys, so his daughter Mary thinks that they have ended up down the back of the chair so Dad begins to search. But they find all sorts of interesting objects are living down the back of the chair! It is a fantastic story that has the children using their imagination and joining in on the poem - Down the back of the chair!

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Thanks everyone and have a great weekend!