We had a lovely day on the 8th of November with our Grandparent's and special people. "I liked when my Dad and Granddad followed me around the Learning Community to see all of my work". Inara Thank you to our wonderful community for allowing Simon Learning Community to share objects, stories and photos from the past. We are very excited to have our Grandparent’s visit us on the 8th of November!
Every week in writing Simon Learning Community focuses on a book and then participates in exploration. During Exploration students either do construction, felt boards, role play, lego, making/arranging, play doh, dash and dot, drawing or cooking focusing on the particular story. So far we have explored, read and written about Hansel and Gretel, Jack and The Beanstalk, Goldilocks and The Three Bears and The Gingerbread Man. We love our community here at MPPS, especially in Simon Learning Community... We are very proud of ourselves for doing our best and encouraging others. It was fun, exciting and amazing. By Claudia and Helena. Check out some of our hard working students in Simon Learning Community using teddies and ten-frame cars to solve some problems using addition! Brrrr! It is cold outside. This week we have been focusing our writing on the season Winter. We were able to experience Winter inside our learning community, look at us developing new vocabulary!Our money unit allowed us to make our very own shop for Plenty Learning Community to buy our craft products! We were able to make and sell different items that were worth 5 cents, 10 cents, 15 cents and 20 cents.YUM! We tried creamy, crispy, crumbly couscous and marvelous, mouth-watering mandarins. In Simon Learning Community we have had a very busy start to May. We have been hydrologists, biologists, chemists, geologists and physicists, look at us go! Today Simon Learning Community predicted what would happen when we put raisins in water and then soda water. Wow! We were so surprised.![]()
To make our writing interesting we are learning to use the writing strategy onomatopoeia. Have a look at our onomatopoeia posters! Reading groups is one of our favourite things in Simon Learning Community. We love to read in our groups with Rhece and Corinne. Simon Learning Community has been focusing on the creation of amazing sentences using the writing strategies power of 3 and similes. We have been writing about fish, ourselves and the beach. Look at us go! In Simon Learning Community we visit the library every Thursday, we enjoy listening and reading interesting stories. We had so much fun learning different cricket skills, we explored throwing like a cricketer, fielding and using a cricket bat correctly. This term we have been focusing on the unit called 'growing older and wiser,' this has allowed us to investigate growing older, healthy foods, staying safe, taking responsible risks, expressing our emotions and dealing with conflict.
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