Term 3

Term 3 has begun with plenty of rain but that hasn’t slowed Room 20 down. We are well into the content we need to cover. We have already participated in NAIDOC celebrations with a fabulous assembly and ‘Bush Tucker Garden’ planting. The children also did an awesome dot painting activity with our buddy class, which is on display in the classroom.

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

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 are – dare, a - was, tch - match, i - taxi, o - do, a - many, u - bush, a - bath, o - pony, ear - bear, oar - roar, ear - pearl, ore - store, our - four, old - cold, our - flour, ould - could 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 have received the information and schedule for Rm 20 students to participate in the poetry recital. Thank you in advance for assisting them to memorise their poems.

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

We continue our Karate times tables challenge where children are encouraged to learn a new times table each week, starting with 2 x tables. When children have mastered their level they can move onto the next belt. 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

The children will participate in a STEM investigation requiring them to learn about Chemical and Physical Science concepts. They will be using Science inquiry skills to complete the investigation. We are currently learning some information necessary to understand the investigation on solids, liquids and gases. You will hear more about the investigation in coming weeks.

HASS

The children will begin researching a festival of their choice from around the world. They are fully engaged in this project already using a variety of methods to find information - books, internet, documents, etc. Some children have chosen festivals that they have attended in other countries and they are encouraged to talk to family and friends to gather information and take notes. This is a most valid source of knowledge.

A reminder that Book Week is just around the corner. Children are encouraged to dress up as a poem character. The date for the parade is Friday August 30th. 

The athletics carnival is scheduled for Friday September 6th, weather permitting, with the cross country race scheduled for Friday August 23rd.

WOW what a busy one! I seem to say that every term!!!