Reception

Term 4 Week 1: Provocation Time!

⭐A WALK DOWN STORY LANE

Students were invited to come to campus to pick up their Term 4 Home-Based Learning materials and met some story characters while they were there!

After meeting the teachers, students made connections to their personal interests and had to think about which character they would choose to be and why. Each child received a black and white outline of a character on a card in their material bags. Their next task is to do more activities based on the card they received.

They made connections to Term 3’s color unit and had to think about the colors the teachers were wearing during the provocation and if the colors influenced their decisions.

The children were asked to think of the setting, the personalities of the character, and the problems the character faced. Students recorded their responses and uploaded them to Seesaw.

⭐Teacher Questions:

-Can you guess who these characters are?

-What clues helped you figure out who they are and where you know them from?

⭐Overall expectations:

⭐Strand: Social organization and culture

Explore the function of verbal and non-verbal communication.

⭐Conceptual understanding:

⭐Strand: Social organization and culture

People communicate in different ways.

⭐Learning outcomes

⭐Strand: Social organization and culture

Describes the function of different types of communication.

⭐Key terms:

-Communicate

-Express

⭐WALT (we are learning that)

there are verbal and non-verbal ways to communicate with others

we can express our feelings and emotions to others

⭐WILF (What I’m looking for)

Understanding of verbal and non-verbal communication and what it means to be a good communicator

Reception English Thinking Routines

New Thinking Routines are in full effect for Term 4 in Reception!

Our focus is on reading strategies, goal setting, personal experiences, and ATLs during our beginning of the week English morning GMeet session. Then our second English session later in the week focuses on our stand-alone expectations.

I wanted our children to revisit some images from Term 3 and look at them through a new lens. Our students have been predicting what will happen and visualizing the Jolly Phonics letter-sound stories since Term 2, and now they are practicing during these beginning of the week Meets and while they do their daily Raz Kids reading.

In addition to comprehension strategies, students play syllable, CVC segmenting and blending, and rhyming games during Face to Face sessions and on Seesaw. Asynchronous tasks on the timetable include sight word sentence writing, handwriting practice, and using their creative thinking skills to draw pictures of words and label or write sentences using the words.

Now your turn: If this picture was in a book or you were in this picture, what would you hear? See? Feel? Think?

Reception Term 4 Week 2 Learning Engagements

We welcomed our Head of School into Reception this week as a guest speaker to read The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, by John Scieszka. Students then discussed the stories in their GMeet sessions and responded to prompts on Seesaw. Developing connections to the stories and analyzing, comparing, and contrasting allows our children to make better sense of how authors communicate with readers.

🐷HOW WE EXPRESS OURSELVES: An inquiry into the ways in which we discover and express ideas, feelings, nature, culture, beliefs and values; the ways in which we reflect on, extend and enjoy our creativity; our appreciation of the aesthetic.

🐷Central idea:

People explore and make sense of the world through the narratives they create.

🐷Lines of inquiry

1. The creation of narratives through imaginative play.

2. The effect of technology on narratives.

3. How relationships are built through verbal and non-verbal communication.

🐷Learner profile attributes

Communicators, Principled

🐷Key concepts

Function, Connection, Perspective

🐷Related concepts

Communication, Relationship, Opinion

🐷Approaches to Learning

Thinking Skills: Creative Thinking

Communication Skills: Exchanging Information, Symbolic Exploration and Expression

Social Skills: Interpersonal Relationships, Social and Emotional Intelligence

⭐Social Studies: The True Story of the Three Little Pigs and Fairytale Comparison

⭐Overall expectations

⭐Strand: Social organization and culture

Explore the function of verbal and non-verbal communication.

⭐WALT (we are learning that)

-There are verbal and non-verbal ways to communicate with others.

-We can express our feelings and emotions to others

⭐WILF (What I’m looking for)

Understanding of verbal and non-verbal communication and what it means to be a good communicator.