January 7th 2011

Friday, January 6, 2010

           

           I hope everyone had a relaxing holiday. I have heard through the students that you all had some great adventures and fun over the break. I spent my time on the island visiting with old friends and running as much as possible. However, by the end I was excited to get back to school and see all of my students again.

            
          This month in literacy and social studies we are investigating zoo animals and since Hsinchu has a zoo I am planning on taking the students for a field trip near the end of the month. I am also planning on a few other field trips throughout the rest of the school year because I believe that there are many learning opportunities to be had outside of the classroom setting.  In math and science this month we are investigating greater than, less than, the same, and various 2D and 3D shapes.

Homework has also begun again this month and I am very happy with the response I am receiving from it. 

Happy New Year and stay warm!

What we did in our centres this week.

Literacy Centres

1.  Animal puppet buddy reading.
2.  African writing books.
3. Computer story “Meet the Meerkats”
4. Guiding reading with a teacher.

Math Centres

1. Tangram animal blocks.
2. Tangram computer game.
3. Free exploration of scales.
4. Math counting text books.

As always, if you have any questions or concern you can always write me an email at bsharp.his@gmail.com or come by and speak to me in person.

Cheers

Braedon

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.  ~Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928