We have had a very busy but wonderful term. The children
have experienced a variety of educational opportunities. We’ve had the Life
Education Van, Book Week, Science Week and our excursion. We still have our
first aid course to complete in Week 10.
Our excursion was a real highlight. The children gained
some very valuable insights into waste in our local area from our visit to the
Red Hill Waste Facility. I hope you enjoyed the photos shared on our blog and I
hope the children have shared some knowledge with you about what they learnt.
They have just completed a report on the Red Hill Waste Facility. I was so
impressed with the standard of information they have presented. These are on
display in the classroom ready for our Learning Journey next week.
Our Learning Journey will be next Tuesday 18th
September between 2pm – 3.30pm. May I extend a warm invitation to you all to
come and see what your children have been working on this term. They will have
many activities prepared to share with you.
As we move into the final weeks of the term we are wrapping
up a number of topic areas.
English
· Reading Strategies – sequencing, concluding, fact or
opinion, summarising and main idea. We will be looking at using these
strategies in the context of both text and short films.
- · Grammar – revising simple, compound and complex sentences
and the conjunctions used to write these sentences. Tenses, the use of
determiners (a/an), homophones (their/there/they’re, too/two/to,
where/wear/we’re, your/you’re, it’s/its) and homographs (bat/bat)
- · Punctuation - Using commas for a list of items and for a
pause, exclamation marks, question marks, quotation marks, ellipses, apostrophe
for ownership and contractions.
- · Spelling - phonemes er, age, ry, est, our, ise, ant, age,
e, al, ex, a, I, au, ie along with some spelling rules
- · Speaking & Listening – Science and HASS presentation
that will be prepared during class time.
- · Writing – Poetry, writing a Procedure and Explanation
You will find photos of some
of the work produced in Literacy already posted on our blog.
Mathematics
- · Number and Algebra - fractions, money, addition and
subtraction within 1000, multiplication and division (facts of 2, 3, 5 &
10)
- · Measurement - time, mapping and directional language,
symmetry and angles
- · Statistics and Probability - chance
Our Karate times tables
challenge has been a huge success. Many children in the class were challenged
with the goal of mastering their times tables at the conclusion of last
semester. Everyone has embraced the challenge and are working towards moving
their way up the Karate belt ladder.
Science
I hope the children have
shared with you their new knowledge from our STEM investigation regarding food
and temperatures inside lunchboxes. You would have seen the lunchbox they designed
and created. Photos are on the blog in case you missed it. The children have
recorded their data on line graphs, table graphs and in written observations. All
our investigation experiment record sheets are on display in the classroom. The
children will be able to explain them to you during the Learning Journey.
Literacy
Pro
You probably know that
Literacy Pro has been a big success. Your children have embraced the program
and are progressing beautifully. Many children are starting to achieve their Bronze
Certificates now, an admirable milestone. We have had the goal of improving our
pass rate for quizzes this term. We tried to get our pass rate up to 90%. We
did improve by 2% up to 83% with the following strategies
- · Read the questions
twice
- · Read the whole book
carefully
- · Check for the answers
in the book
- · Finish all 10 questions
We will be setting a new goal
early next term to improve our Literacy Pro statistics.
I would like to wish you all a
lovely holiday and look forward to everyone returning for Term 4 refreshed and
ready to learn.
