Term 4 has begun!

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.