Jade Stars

There is more learning to celebrate this week in Jade class. We begin wit our star writer who has made it onto the working wall t as an example for others to follow. She wrote a short piece of text in the role of the Lucy, our principle character in our book Lob. She wrote about events that had happened in the story, expressed feelings as if she was Lucy and even managed to use all of the key sentence types and writing devices we have been learning about to make her writing interesting and exciting to read. Things such as times adverbials, if,if if then sentences and expanded noun phrases.

Our scientist of the week has been able to apply our knowledge of electrical currents to write about how she would make the bulb brighter after making a circuit. She clearly understood that electricity is the flow of electrons and protons around a circuit, that the circuit needs to connect to both sides of the cells and that we need more power in a series circuit to make the bulb brighter.

The mathematician this week as recognized for how they have adopted all the distribution techniques we have bene learning about to answer enormous multiplication calculations.

Finally, this week we have a lot of growth mindset awards because we have been introducing new cooperative learning techniques called Kagan Strategies. We as a class have already been using Rally Coach, Rally Robin, Round Robin and time, pair share. This week we introduced mix pair share. Mix pair share involved moving around the class finding a partner discussing a topic. Then when moving onto the next partner they have to relay their previous partners messages to the next. Reinforcing their listening skills, memory and embedding the knew knowledge. This was a growth mindset because they took on the challenge, used feedback and information from others to compliment their learning and tried their best. It is a great growth mindset.