Term 3 2018, Volume 10, Weeks 4 & 5
🎵Give me a home among the gum trees 🎵
We have 88 very excited students and teachers ready and rearing to go on camp next week! Everything is looking good at this end with the teachers putting in lots of extra time and effort, to ensure this camp is a wonderful experience for all our campers.
Please ensure you read the information regarding details for Wednesday 22nd August.
We have 88 very excited students and teachers ready and rearing to go on camp next week! Everything is looking good at this end with the teachers putting in lots of extra time and effort, to ensure this camp is a wonderful experience for all our campers.
Please ensure you read the information regarding details for Wednesday 22nd August.
Monday 20th- Book Week - Dress up as your favourite book character parade
Tuesday 21st - STOMP
Wednesday 22nd- Friday 24th Log Cabin Camp WOOHOO!!!!!
Wednesday 29th - Father's Day Breakfast
Thursday 30th - Fathers Day Stall
Friday 31st - District Athletics Day
September
Tuesday 4th- Whole school production @ Kingston Arts Centre. Rehearsal in the morning followed by a Matinee performance during the day and an evening performance that night.
Friday 21st- Whole school footy day, special lunch and early dismissal 2.30pm
WEEKS 4&5
During READING, the students have been learning how to make visual connections from their reading. The students have enjoyed producing pictures matching to a paragraph from their books in reading sessions. They also made predictions on how the story will continue from a piece of writing given to them.
In WRITING sessions, we have been exploring narratives, looking at each area thoroughly. The students used pictures and words to create their characters and the settings their story will take place. We then looked at various plots the story could have and finally created some interesting openers and lists of WOW words to include in the stories. The students will now being writing their stories and then the editing and publishing process will take place.
In MATHS the students have become familiar with different types of maps. They have had to give their friends directions and work out how to explain how to get somewhere. The students learnt how to copy a picture but on a bigger scale from the original and they also used grid references to find things and draw things on maps.
In WRITING sessions, we have been exploring narratives, looking at each area thoroughly. The students used pictures and words to create their characters and the settings their story will take place. We then looked at various plots the story could have and finally created some interesting openers and lists of WOW words to include in the stories. The students will now being writing their stories and then the editing and publishing process will take place.
In MATHS the students have become familiar with different types of maps. They have had to give their friends directions and work out how to explain how to get somewhere. The students learnt how to copy a picture but on a bigger scale from the original and they also used grid references to find things and draw things on maps.
Our first INQUIRY unit for the term has come to an end. The students really enjoyed becoming biological science experts by investigating living and non-living things and the . They were pretty impressed to be able to grow their own plants and they were very good and making observations.
SPELLING
SPELLING
Week 4
Grade 3 Focus: The graph /a/ making the sound 'ar' as in banana
Grade 4 Focus: The graph /v/ making the sound “v” as in voice.Week 5
Grade 3 Focus: The graph /g/ as in giant.
Grade 4 Focus: The graph /y/ making the sound “y” as in yawn. The graph /i/ making the sound “y’ as in onion.
In ICT, the students have completed their first Google Slide document. They chose an insect to research and complete a project on the lifecycle of that insect. This activity complimented our Inquiry unit nicely and finished off the students learning to show us what they understood about living things.
COMING UP...
WEEK 6
As we have camp in Week 6 our learning program for Monday and Tuesday will accommodate for this. We have activities planned for Book Week and we will continue our mapping in Maths. We will also do some Gold Rush reading in preparation for our visit to Sovereign Hill and the students will tell us what their expectations of camp are in our writing session.
WEEK 7
As we have camp in Week 6 our learning program for Monday and Tuesday will accommodate for this. We have activities planned for Book Week and we will continue our mapping in Maths. We will also do some Gold Rush reading in preparation for our visit to Sovereign Hill and the students will tell us what their expectations of camp are in our writing session.
WEEK 7
In READING we will be focussing on Determining Importance. The students will look at how to find the main ideas from their reading and how some information in what we read is only there to support the main idea or enhance the experience.
In WRITING the students will be asked to recount their camp experience in a variety of ways. They will also continue their narratives from Week 5 using the extensive planning we did and publish these over the next few weeks.
In MATHS the students will begin a new unit on Fractions. They will do a pre test in Week 7 to determine where their learning is at. The students will then work in ability based groups to further this learning over the next 3 weeks.
For SPELLING we will have a week off due to camp:
Week 7
Grade 3 Focus: The graph /s/ making the sound “zh” as in treasure.
Grade 4 Focus: The digraph /or/ making the sound “eh” as in doctor. Usually at the end of words.
For the remainder of the term our new INQUIRY unit will take the students on a different Science journey. We will be looking at Earth Science and in particular Day and Night. This will begin after camp.
In MATHS the students will begin a new unit on Fractions. They will do a pre test in Week 7 to determine where their learning is at. The students will then work in ability based groups to further this learning over the next 3 weeks.
For SPELLING we will have a week off due to camp:
Week 7
Grade 3 Focus: The graph /s/ making the sound “zh” as in treasure.
Grade 4 Focus: The digraph /or/ making the sound “eh” as in doctor. Usually at the end of words.
For the remainder of the term our new INQUIRY unit will take the students on a different Science journey. We will be looking at Earth Science and in particular Day and Night. This will begin after camp.
On Wednesday, please remember to be at school at 7.30am. The bus leaves at 7.50am. All you need for the bus, is a small backpack with your drink bottle, a piece of fruit and a small savoury snack. Maybe pack a book and some pencils as you will receive your special camp book on the bus. You will not need any other food. You will be given lunch at Sovereign Hill.
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