Patents and inventions

              

Who wants to be an inventor? What do you do when you come up with an invention? Eric (Emma) talked to us about patents and inventions. It got everyone thinking and all the children started coming up with ideas for inventions. Who knows? Future inventors?

Presenting stories

            

Beginning, middle and end. The 3 parts a story should have. Everyone tried writing their stories and then read them out to the class. Great feedback from the Swedish teachers!

Chess with buddy class

                 

4b were delighted to share their chess talents with us after coming 2nd for "Shäck fyran" at the Globen. And they did notice that we do have some talented players in the class! It was fun to play chess together.

Seasons of the Year

    

What are we working with? Yes, you have guessed, seasons! Which seasons do we represent? This was our general introduction of the new theme we were presenting for all 3 first grade classes.

    

We then went back to the class and did some brainstorming of what the children knew around seasons. This is what we came up with!

Art work with patterns

        

        

Patterns, patterns, patterns!

Working with patterns this week has been about making different patterns with concrete material in small groups. What creative patterns the different groups came up with!

         

         

         

Working for Telia.

              

Telia? Who does not recognize the emblem? Well, all the children did! What does it mean to work for Telia and to be at the head of Human resources? What happens to you when you are fired? What do like about your job? These are just a few examples of questions asked. "Very often, something unexpected happens....there is never never a boring day" was a perfect end to a very informative presentation!

Making commercial films

            

Robbie (Seven) is a film director and focuses on making short documentaries and commercials. He showed the class some commercials he had made. He also talked about the fun aspect of being a film director and the difficulties of making movies. Very interesting! A big THANK-YOU!

Job presentation

                  

Lotta (Saskia's mum) spoke to the class about how to market products for Electrolux. " It is fun to meet people from all over the world, discuss their needs and design products" she said. You have to be good with numbers and enjoy talking to people. Almost everyone could imagine themselves doing this kind of job! Thank you Lotta!

How many days?

            

We have been counting every day we are in school since the beginning of the school year. Each day is represented by a coin.There is a lot of math in this exercise: counting, money, changing (five 1 coins to a 5 coin, two 5 coins to a 10 coin and ten 10 coins to one hundred note). Great everyday math!

Gymnastics

            

An important part of the gym lesson (as with many other lessons) is to be able to listen to instructions!

Music

              

Marking the beat and keeping the rhythm with chopsticks!

Working with Jobs

             

During the lesson, the children watched a documentary on different jobs around which there was a discussion.

Our February break

             

             

The children wrote about their February break in their Newsbooks. It was interesting to read about the wide variety of things everyone had done. How well the children are beginning to write!