Room 20 had a celebration today with blue cupcakes. Every student in Room 20 has now achieved their blue certificate in Literacy Pro. Well done to everyone. That is quite an achievement. I wonder if everyone can get their red certificate before the end of the year?
Sunday, September 22, 2019
Thursday, September 19, 2019
STEM project
Enjoy a sneak peek at our STEM projects all ready for the learning journey on Tuesday afternoon. Hope to see you there!
Monday, September 16, 2019
Term 3 wrap up
We have had a very busy but wonderful term. The children
have experienced a variety of educational opportunities. We’ve had the Firemen
Incursion, Book Week, Science Week and our STEM learning journey sill to come.
Our Learning Journey will be next Tuesday 24th
September between 2pm – 3.30pm. May I extend a warm invitation to you all to
come and see the STEM projects that your children have been working on this term.
They will have many supporting 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 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 – Poetry
Recital, Science and HASS presentation that have been prepared during class
time.
·
Writing – Poetry, writing a
Procedure and Explanation
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 will have a chance to see the lunchbox
they designed and created at the learning journey. 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 have improved up to 86% 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 continue striving to
achieve goal 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.
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