Category Archives: Literacy

Our Learning This Week

Posted on March 4, 2011 by kpearce

Jack and the Giant e-book We have now sold 76 copies of our own e-book, with all profits going to support the important work of Save the Children. In class this morning we posted on the Amazon thread to say … Continue reading →

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This Week in P2P

Posted on February 25, 2011 by kpearce

This has been a busy week in our classroom. We have begun the second part of our Jack and the Beanstalk topic, GROWING, which focuses less on the characters and more on the beanstalk. Our Garden Centre role play area … Continue reading →

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P2P take Jack and the Beanstalk to New Heights

Posted on February 22, 2011 by kpearce

As a fitting end to our fun-filled  Jack and the Beanstalk storyline we made a whole class ebook for the mysterious Keeper of the Stories to replace the story of Jack that had gone missing from the Land of Fairy Tales. We … Continue reading →

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What we have learned

Posted on February 11, 2011 by kpearce

 We shared what we had learned during our topic this morning. We have learned …that we can make model castles out of cardboard.  Kira ….about plants at the Botanic Gardens.  Nathan D …that beans grow with soil, water and light.  Ross … Continue reading →

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Outdoor Learning

Posted on January 24, 2011 by kpearce

As part of our efforts to take our learning outdoors several times each week, today we did our daily journals outdoors just before morning break.

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Wanted: Large Castle for Mean Giant

Posted on January 19, 2011 by kpearce

When we walked around the school last week to see all the exciting changes taking place in classrooms, we spotted a classroom with a giant-sized keyhole on the door. Inside was a giant key. We thought that perhaps it might … Continue reading →

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Counting Beans and Creating Jack’s World

Posted on January 13, 2011 by kpearce

  Today the Squares Numeracy group worked together in pairs to count  beans. They decided that it would be fastest to count them in twos and worked out how to arrange them to count them easily. Today we also started building the … Continue reading →

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Learning about Houses and Homes

Posted on December 23, 2010 by kpearce

Now that I am becoming more confident with using Word Press, hopefully you will see more whole class blog entries. My goal is that next term children will be able to add their own words to the blog themselves. With … Continue reading →

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Wolfie’s Side of the Story

Posted on December 16, 2010 by kpearce

As part of our Houses and Homes topic this term we have been writing stories. We read the traditional story of The Three Little Pigs and acted it out with puppets. Then we read The True Story of the Three … Continue reading →

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Sensational Snowmen

Posted on December 10, 2010 by kpearce

Following on from the snowmen we made yesterday and a piece of writing we did this morning, today we painted close-up portraits of snowmen. We talked about the shapes that we can see in a 2D snowman. We used black oil … Continue reading →

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