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 24^th 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.