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 ask your children about our
Student Fete in Week 2. This event was a fabulous learning experience for the
students of our school, providing them with real life learning and the
development of enterprise skills.
Our
stall was a huge success as we sold out very quickly. We decided we should have
provided more products for sale and maybe put the price up a bit.
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. Swimming forms will be sent home soon. Please refer to your
swimming form to see when permission forms and payment are due.
Rm 20 has been scheduled to perform
their item at the Senior Assembly on Friday of Week 5, November 15th. Please
note this date. Students are asked to dress in any national costume they might
have. If they don’t have a national costume, a Christmas outfit or black,
white or red clothes will be fine. We hope you are able to make this special event.
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 or, le,
ar, -y, -a, ey, ue, c, ea, oo, ou, ay, ea, oo, oi and ow along with some
spelling rules.
·
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 15 students from Rm 20 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
Our Super Scientist Report
Competition is coming up in Week 5. When preparing for this, I encourage all
students to practise speaking clearly, at an appropriate volume and maintaining
eye contact with their audience. We have been working hard to improve on these
skills 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.
11 Nov
