Term 4

Here we are in Term 4 already!!

I trust everyone had a wonderful break and are ready to engage in the celebrations and activities that Term 4 provides.

I hope you had a chance to come and enjoy a wonderful celebration of the arts at the Arts Festival on Tuesday night. Music, Art and Drama are such important aspects of a child’s learning and it was a spectacular night, showcasing the talents of our students in many areas. Thank you to those parents who were able to come along and share the evening with your children.

We have begun dancing lessons. We participate in one dancing lesson per week and will do until the end of the term. The children have remembered many of last year’s dances and we have begun learning some new ones for our Dance Party coming up later in the year. I will post more information regarding the Dance Party later in the term.

Swimming lessons for our class have been scheduled for Weeks 7 & 8 as you will already know from the permission form sent home last week. Forms and payment are due Wednesday October 31^st.

Congratulations to Aadidev who was selected to complete in the recent Numero Challenge as a representative of Wattle Grove Primary School. We wish you lots of success in future heats for the remainder of the term.

Rm 19 has been scheduled to perform their item at the Senior Assembly on Friday of Week 8. Please note this date.

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

English

• ·         Reading Strategies – finding information, cause and effect, similarities and differences and predicting. 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 – Revising using commas for a list of items and for a pause, exclamation marks, capital letters, full stops, question marks, quotation marks, apostrophe for ownership. Children will be encouraged to edit many passages, both on paper and digitally on laptops.
• ·         Spelling - phonemes au, ie, sc, or, age, eigh, silent h, silent g, silent u g, silent l m, ou, augh, el, ant, our and c along with some spelling rules. You may notice that some of these are repeated. These phonemes were identified as weak areas across the year group and we have revisited them for consolidation.
• ·         Speaking & Listening – Science presentation
• ·         Writing – Persuasive text and Narrative text

Mathematics

New topics

• ·         Number and Algebra - addition and subtraction within 1000, multiplication and division (facts of 2, 3, 5 & 10)

Revision

• ·         Number
• ·         Measurement
• ·         Statistics and Probability

The Karate challenge has been going very well with 14 students from Rm 19 mastering the 2, 10, 5, 3, 11 and 9 times table. The children will benefit from knowing all their times tables by rote, so I encourage everyone to embrace the Karate challenge and work towards the top belt as quickly as possible.

Science

We have already had our Super Scientist Report Competition. Congratulations to everyone from Rm 19 for an outstanding effort with your presentations. I was most impressed at the high standard, especially with the way that everyone tried so hard to maintain eye contact with the audience. This is something we have been working hard to do each time we present.

HASS

The children are completing our unit on Civics and Citizenship where we have focused on Governments and Democracy and Law and Citizens. We will then complete a unit on Geography in the second half of the term.