Term 2

Hello to everyone again! We are well into Term 2 now. Here’s a snapshot of what to expect.

We have spent the first few weeks of the term revising concepts to prepare for NAPLAN. I am very proud of the way your children conducted themselves during the NAPLAN testing time. Each one gave their very best effort with a positive attitude. I couldn’t have asked for more.

As we move into the remaining weeks of the term we can expect to cover topics such as;

English

·         Visual Literacy - picture books, advertisements and short films

·         Reading Strategies such as predicting, self-questioning, creating images, connecting, summarising and main idea

·         Grammar - verbs (action, saying, thinking), clauses in complex sentences and collective nouns

·         Punctuation - quotation marks, ellipses, brackets, colons and hyphens

·         Spelling - suffixes ern and ful, phonemes augh, i, eigh, ou, ary, ough, ent, al

along with some spelling rules

·         Speaking & Listening - super scientist, WA Day

Maths

·         measurement - length, mass, capacity

·         symmetry

·         number

·         chance

Science

We will be studying biological science, discovering the characteristics of plants and animals and how they are classified. This will lead into an exploration of a habitat. Children will identify the living, once living and non-living things in that habitat. They will then conduct an investigation into how climate change will affect that habitat.

HASS

We will be looking at how things have changed from the past to the present. Toys, communication, transport etc.

Just a reminder that Super Scientist is just around the corner. You would have received a note about this. I will post the timetable up next to the classroom door for students to see what day they are scheduled to present their experiment.

So much fun to be had in Room 19!!