We're Back!

So nice to see all the happy, smiling children after a lovely weeks holiday.  The children had so much to tell me about what they did over the holidays that we spent our carpet time sharing our news with the whole class.  Everyone listened so well to their friends and asked very good questions.

For Journal writing the children enjoyed drawing a picture of something they did on holiday and wrote one or two sentences to explain their drawing.  We all did so many interesting things.  Here are a few of our drawings.

At the beach.

Visiting family in Thailand.

Swimming on a roof top pool.

Flying to the Philippines.

Watching a movie at Aeon Mall.

Swimming with Grandparents who came to visit.

Unit of Inquiry

We also refreshed our memories on our Unit of Inquiry - Systems

Here are a few pictures of the children working together to create a system. 

They had to complete puzzles without instructions or a picture of what the puzzle should look like.  They did such a great job!  Some groups decided to work in pairs, while others worked together by finding a piece and handing it to the "Puzzle Builder". One group had all four members looking for the same piece of puzzle and built piece by piece. However, one very lucky group had our class "Puzzle Champion" they completed two puzzles together!!

I was also so happy to have many of the children tell me that they did a lot of reading on Raz-kids over the holiday.  It is so great to have such enthusiastic readers!!   A big thank you to all the Mum's and Dads for helping and supporting your child at home.