Monday 15th -19th August

We are now drawing to the end of our second week and what another great week we have had. As well as being busy developing new friendships and learning new routines, this week the Fire Dashers also began writers workshop, readers workshop and maths workshop. We also discussed how we can be safe, responsible and respectful members of our school.

In writers workshop we have been busy learning how we can all be authors by using the strategy, 'think, draw, write' and ensuring we have our writing tools ready. In readers workshop we have also learnt how everyone can be a reader. The Fire Dashers learnt how to handle books careful and worked on reading stories through pictures.  

Take a look below at the Fire Dashers in action during one of our reading workshops this week.

In Mathematics this week the Fire Dashers took part in two Maths Workshops. We discussed what makes a good Maths problem solver and the Fire Dashers came up with the following ideas:

How to Solve a Math Problem

Investigate

Work together

Share your ideas

Explain your ideas

Stay positive!

Some Fire Dashers even took to the mathematicians chair to explain their thinking behind their ideas. A big well done to Kit, Konrad, Lottie and Onni for explaining their thinking to the rest of the Fire Dasher team!  

In Mathematics this week we have also been exploring 2D shapes and Ernst noticed that there were shapes all around us in our classroom. We noticed that the clock was the shape of a circle and that we had tables that were in the shapes of squares, rectangles and hexagons. We decided that we should investigate further and went on a shape hunt around our school. The Fire Dashers worked in pairs and discussed how they would record their findings before setting off on their hunt. 

Take a look at the Fire Dashers on their hunt for shapes!