Skip counting to 100

This week we have been refreshing our abilities to count to 100. We read the book 100 things written by Masayuki Sebe. This allowed us to see what 100 things looked like and also understand that it easier to count to 100 by grouping objects together.

Once we read the book, we worked together to group pop sticks into 10's and worked out that we needed 10 groups of 10 to make 100 pop sticks.

In order to assess the students understandings we ventured outside and set off independently to collect and group honkey nuts in 10's to reach 100.

Thomas peer modelled his counting to the rest of the group. He did such a great job I think I will employ him to be my assistant with future numeracy concepts.

Finally we returned to class to show what we had learnt with a concrete activity of skip counting in 10's to 100 and beyond. This activity allowed us to look at written numbers and identify patterns that skip counting can create.

Our Narrative Learning Journey

We began our learning journey by making foil characters and placing them in the sun then tracing and colouring their shadow.

We then used these characters to complete a story plan which involved thinking of a name for our main characters. The children were very creative coming up with names like Shiny, Tinman, Foilman and Princess Silver. We then brainstormed adjectives that could describe them, decided on a setting for our narratives and developed the main event or conflict for our story. Finally we created a title for our narratives.

Finally we used our story plan to write a narrative about the characters we created. 

Introducing Room 10 Year One and Two 2014

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This blog is in the process of being created.  Come back soon to see what an exciting learning journey your Year 1 and Year 2 students will be embarking on this year!