Year 1 Update – Wk 23
Student Led Conferences
We hope you all enjoyed your first experience of Student Led Conferences today. It was so lovely to see you all engaging with your children and celebrating their learning in Year One so far. This year the children have been learning about what it means to have a “Growth Mindset”. This involves them understanding that they are in control of our own learning and can grow as a learner. In order to do this the children have been taught to try their best, face challenges in a positive way, persevere and that mistake making is an important part of learning. As part of their Student Led Conference reflections the students have been encouraged to think about the areas of learning that they are proud of and set goals for future learning. Please talk to your children at home about the goals that they have set and how you can help them to achieve these goals.
Sharing the Planet Unit
This week we have started our Sharing the Planet unit which focuses on the interdependence of living things in our environment. We started the unit by thinking about living and non-living things. With Ms Jeves the children were introduced to a Venn Diagram as a means of sorting their thinking. They also drew a living thing of their choosing which you will have seen today when you were working at the UOI station.
From these initial learning experiences it has become evident that there are some misconceptions amongst the children about different living things and what makes something living. When you are out and about over the next few weeks it would be great if you could take opportunities to look for living things and have a discussion about how they know it is living.
Central Idea: Plants and animals depend of each other for survival in their environments
In UOI lessons next week the children will be beginning to look at the 7 characteristics of what makes a living thing: movement, breathing, reproduction, waste, growth, nutrition, response. They will be exploring this concept through sorting and classifying pictures of living things and recording their thinking on a group chart.
The children will also be looking at everyday items such as wood, lavender, tea and aloe vera and inquiring into the plants that they come from.
We collect information to make sense of the world around us and can be organised in different ways
This week in Maths we will be rounding up our unit based on data handling by teaching the children how to interpret the information that they have collected. They will be using vocabulary such as, more than, less than, most and least.
Later in the week the students will be given the opportunity to come up with their own class question that they would like to collect data on. They will then need to go through the whole process of collecting the data to answer their question and representing their data in an appropriate way such as; a pictogram or a bar chart.
Next week we will be introducing Set 5 phonics: ch, sh, th, wh
Camera Words: like do says what going give
Please continue to support our work in school by playing the suggested games on the back of the bookmark that will be sent home at the beginning of next week.
1F- Aidan McLoughlin, Hoi Fung Chan and Kinson Lee
1W – Ching Yee Ng
1L – Anji Wong Imaizumi and Hayden Gardner
PE – Janice Lee
Congratulations to all our Golden Book Certificate children.
Experience – The Legend of Hong Kong Toys
If you are looking for a fun and educational family outing over the next few weeks why not take a trip to the Hong Kong History Museum. This temporary exhibition links beautifully with our previous unit about how historical artefacts can teach us about people’s lives. Please take some photos of your trip and send them into school. We love to see children taking action outside of school.
The Hong Kong Museum of History has partnered with the Hong Kong Toys Council and the Toys Manufacturers’ Association of Hong Kong to organize this exhibition. By showcasing around 2,000 (sets of) toys familiar to Hong Kong people or made locally, the exhibition explores the evolution of toys in the past century and the way shrewd industrialists transformed Hong Kong into a toy kingdom. The exhibition also examines how the entertainment industry in the forms of animation, comics, cinema and television influences trends and production of toys, and the role in which Hong Kong partook. Moreover, the exhibition illustrates functions of toys beyond fun and play, and the way toys adapted to changing times. The exhibition venue shall feature a play area which will surely encourage children to immerse in play and at the same time ponder the meaning of toys.
The Museum offers public guided tours from 6 March onwards. Each tour lasts about 1 hour and admits 30 persons on a first come, first served basis
