B (8) Term 1 Wrap Up 2010
Language Arts
Fitzroy Reading – completed Level 11 – 20, along with the workbook of weekly lessons. Includes phonics instruction, sight words, comprehension and grammar work.
Explode The Code – completed Lessons 1 – 6 of Book 2 (blends)
Book Journal – George’s Secret Key
Montessori Language:
Blue Series Work (blends)
Moveable Alphabet
Story Writing Cards – Theme ‘The Garden’
Metal Insets – Improving Handwriting
Read Alouds – Minimum of 4 Readers per day with a mixture of books at his level, just below his level (to build confidence & fluency) and just above his level. This includes children’s picture books.
Quiz Tree Software for Sight Words Practice and Sentence Construction Practice
Mathematics
Qld Targeting Maths Year 3 - Completed Pages 2 – 12. Topics Covered:
Numbers to 100
Counting by 5s and 10s
O’clock, half past and digital time
2 digit numbers
Hundred Square
Naming 3D Objects, Faces
Bridging Ten, Making 20
Comparing Mass & Measuring Mass
Targeting Mental Maths Year 2 (3 for Qld) – Completed Units 1 – 6.
Topics Covered:
Addition Using Number Line
Number Words
Addition Using Counting On
Space and Shapes
Word Problems
Less Than More Than
Money Addition
Subtraction Using Counting Back
Length
Estimation
Making Ten
Time – O’clock, half past
Counting in 10’s & 2’s
Addition in 10’s
Space and Symmetry
Patterning
Looking for tens
Mass
Fractions – halves & quarters
Multiplication – groups of
Doubles
Math U See Alpha – Completed Lessons 8 – 11.
Topics Covered:
Addition
Skip Counting 10’s & 2’s
Solve for the Unknown Addition
Shapes
Word Problems
Decimal Numbers to the hundred
Unit Test for Lessons 1 – 10 completed with100% accuracy
View & Do Maths Investigations Level 1 Completed Investigations 1 and 2
Science
Mini Plant Study using Montessori:
Parts of a Plant, including labelling
Coloured Flowers Experiment
Several books
Documentaries:
Tornadoes
Whales
Magic School Bus Dinosaurs & Reptiles
Magic School Body Basics
Living/Non Living/Never Living/Once Living Work using Montessori
Read Aloud: George’s Secret Key To The Universe (Space)
Bubble Science Experiments:
How to prepare bubble solution
Bubble Structures & Principles of Bubbles
Bubble Harmonica’s
Bubble Chains
Giant Bubbles
Coloured Bubbles
Bubble Prints
Social Studies:
James May Toy Stories, weekly series about Toys of yesteryear:
Plasticine
Meccano
Scalextric
Airfix
Model Train
Lego
St Patrick’s Day Mini Study:
Where is Ireland
Map Work
History of St Patrick’s Day & St Patrick
Symbols of St Patrick’s Day & Ireland
Story Writing
St Patrick’s Spelling Words
Craft
History
Through Picture Books:
Born With A Bang – Full Narration completed along with watercolour illustrations
From Lava To Life
Geography
Land/Water/Air Montessori Presentation
Art
8 Week Program with Art Teacher.
Topics Covered:
Week 1: Colour landscapes. Students practised primary and secondary colour mixing. While creating a landscape city at dusk. Students mixed blue to purple to red to orange to yellow.
Week 2: Artists and colour: Piet mondrian: Students looked at shape and colour and how it is used in art. We designed an abstract city after looking a Mondrian work, using cut outs shapes and lines.
Week 3: Fantasy Fish. Elements of design line, shape, colour, texture were used to create a finished fish drawing. We then used colour theory to complete the fish.
Week 4: Start of portraits. Students discussed the shape of faces, proportions and position of eyes, nose, mouth and ears. We used cartooning discoveries to find out how to create emotions and feelings in faces.
Week 5: Students made mixed media Picasso portraits. This incorporates elements of design such as shape line and proportion. Allows students scope to create using different mediums.
Week 6: Portraits. Drawing and Gauche. Over 2 art lessons the students will compose their own self portraits.
Week 7: As above.
Week 8: Clay faces. Relief sculpture. Students learnt about clay and design, how to join clay and they used additive and subtractive methods to make an expressive face
Bunnings Hardware Workshop:
Wooden and Wire Bird Feeders
At home Art:
Sydney Harbour (Opera House & Bridge) Drawing and Painting in Acrylics
Playdough Sculptures
Bubble Prints
Shape Game Drawings
Toot Toot Beep Beep Paintings
Annual Canvas Painting (landscape)
Various Drawings in pencil and felt pen
Nature
Paperbark Trail Nature Walk (Daisy Hill Forest)
Creek Exploring (Cedar Creek)
Taronga Zoo Sydney
Percy The Platypus Read Aloud and Sketch Book Entry
Sport
Swimming:
5 days of intensive training with swim teacher
Free swimming on holidays and in our backyard pool
Mixed Sports – 8 week program covering various sports & skills:
AFL Auskick
Ball Handling and General Sports Skills
Gymnastics – 8 week program covering basic gymnastics skills and use of various apparatus. Mini Balance Beam Competition on last day of term was won by Brayden.
At Home:
Indoor Obstacle Courses
Scooters, Bikes, Kicking Ball, Swings, Trampoline
Technology/Construction
Lego
Box Construction
K (5) Term 1 Wrap Up 2010
Language Arts
Focus on initial sounds, working through Alpha Tales Picture Book Series, playdough mats, various printable worksheets
Montessori Language
Eye Spy using Montessori Methods and miniatures for use with initial sound work
Metal Insets (Montessori) Aids in pencil control & handwriting skills
Story Writing Cards – Theme ‘The Garden’
Read Aloud
Beatrix Potter The Complete Tales
Software
Reading Eggs Software Level 1 discs 1 and 2
PBS Kids Website
Starfall.com
Mathematics
Singapore Early Bird Maths Book 1B
Lessons 1 - 18 Topics Covered:
Solid Shapes
Reading & Writing of Numerals
Cardinal Numbers
Counting
Arranging Numbers in sequence
Zero
Counting backwards from 10
One to One Matching
Picture Graphs
Even & Odd
Counting in Two’s
Time Sequence
Ordinal Numbers
Shapes & Patterns
Singapore Early Bird Maths Book 2A
Lessons 1 – 5 Topics Covered:
Reading & Writing of Numerals
Counting Orally
Arranging numbers in sequence
Equal Numbers
Greater Than/Less Than
Comparison of Numbers
Telling Time to the Hour
Days of the Week
Months of the Year
Montessori:
Number Rods
Number Cards & Counters
Spindle Boxes
Bead Stair 1 - 10
Introduction to Decimal System with Golden Beads
The Arts
Sleeping Beauty Play for family
8 Week Program with Art Teacher.
Topics Covered:
Week 1: Colour landscapes. Students practised primary and secondary colour mixing. While creating a landscape city at dusk. Students mixed blue to purple to red to orange to yellow.
Week 2: Clown colour wheels. Introduced the colour wheel and warm and cool colours. Colour wheel discovery through making a clown in a circus background.
Week 3: Artists and colour: Piet Mondrian: Students looked at shape and colour and how it is used in art. We designed an abstract city after looking a Mondrian work, using cut outs shapes and lines.
Week 4: Start of portraits. Students discussed the shape of faces, proportions and position of eyes, nose, mouth and ears. We used cartooning discoveries to find out how to create emotions and feelings in faces.
Week 5: Students made mixed media Picasso portraits. This incorporates elements of design such as shape line and proportion. Allows students scope to create using different mediums.
Week 6: Portraits. Drawing and Gauche. Over 2 art lessons the students will compose their own self portraits. What I want to be when I grow up.
Week 7: Students continued portraits and the started mixed media Collograph collage (portrait)
Week 8: Students saw printing process and experienced print making of there people Collographs
Bunnings Hardware Workshop:
Wooden and Wire Bird Feeders
At home Art:
Mixed Media Collages
Playdough Sculptures
Bubble Prints
Shape Game Drawings
Toot Toot Beep Beep Paintings
Annual Canvas Painting (landscape)
Various Drawings in pencil and felt pen
Sensorial Activities (Montessori)
Colour Sorting Tasks
Knobbed Cylinders
Fabric Sorting (textures)
Knobless Cylinders
Science
Documentaries:
Tornadoes
Whales
Magic School Bus Dinosaurs & Reptiles
Magic School Body Basics
Living/Non Living Work using Montessori Principles & Materials
Bubble Science Experiments:
How to prepare bubble solution
Bubble Structures & Principles of Bubbles
Bubble Harmonica’s
Bubble Chains
Giant Bubbles
Coloured Bubbles
Bubble Prints
Mini Plant Study using Montessori:
Parts of a Plant
Coloured Flowers Experiment
Several books
Nature
Paperbark Trail Nature Walk (Daisy Hill Forest)
Creek Exploring (Cedar Creek)
Taronga Zoo Sydney
Percy The Platypus Read Aloud
History
Through Picture Books:
Born With A Bang – Full Narration completed along with watercolour illustrations
From Lava To Life
Geography
Land/Water/Air Montessori Presentation
Social Studies
James May Toy Stories, weekly series about Toys of yesteryear:
Plasticine
Meccano
Scalextric
Airfix
Model Train
Lego
St Patrick’s Day Mini Study:
Where is Ireland
Map Work
History of St Patrick’s Day & St Patrick
Symbols of St Patrick’s Day & Ireland
Story Writing
Crafts
Sport
Swimming:
5 days of intensive training with swim teacher
Free swimming on holidays and in our backyard pool
Gymnastics – 8 week program covering basic gymnastics skills and use of various apparatus. Mini Balance Beam Competition on last day of term was won by Brayden.
At Home:
Indoor Obstacle Courses
Scooters, Bikes, Kicking Ball, Swings, Trampoline
Technology/Computer
PBS Kids Site
Starfall
Box Construction
Lego
1 comments:
Great term! Glad to see someone else using James May as an educational tool - isn't it a great series??! We've started on his 20th Century series now and its great too!
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