Welcome back to Term 3!
It has been a great start to the term and it has been wonderful to see the children after two weeks off. The children have come back ready and raring to go and I love their enthusiasm! A big welcome to Kane Appleton who began his time at OLC today :)
This term we are looking at a variety of topics and basing these concepts around the children's interests and ideas. We will be asking the children what they would like to learn about in regards to these topics with a question box at the back of our room. The children always come up with some great ideas to guide their own learning!
Our writing focus this term will look at different types of Poetry and Narrative structure which will also incorporate Dream Time Stories. Our Math focus this term will be Money, 2D and 3D shapes, Measurement (capacity and length), addition and subtraction, revision of skip counting (2's, 5's, 10's), basic fractions, place value revision and odd and even numbers.
In our HASS subjects we will have a focus on things from past and how children's daily lives differ from those of their parents or Grandparents childhoods.We will also be looking at a variety of Dream Time Stories and comparing these stories to our modern day activity of story telling.
In Science we will be exploring how we can observe changes in the sky and landscape and how this can affect our ability to care for natural, managed and constructed features.
Think Mentals
Today the children's Think Mentals books went home for homework and the children were very excited to get their beloved Maths books back!
This term, we will begin completing one unit per week. However I will only be collecting the books every two weeks for marking. I have chosen to collect the books every two weeks as I know that there are some week nights that the children have other commitments or family events that prevent them from completing particular days so I thought completing two units over two weeks might alleviate some of the pressure to get everything in on time.
Please refer to the schedule below which outlines when each of the units are due.
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Think Mentals schedule
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Weeks
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Units and date
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Week 1 and 2
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Unit 7 and 8 due 28th
July
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Weeks 3 and 4
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Unit 9 and 10 due 11th
August
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Weeks 5 and 6
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Unit 11 and 12 due 25th
August
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Week 7 and 8
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Unit 13 and 14 due 8th
September
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Weeks 9 and 10
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Unit 15 and 16 due 22nd
September
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Thank you for your on going support with marking and providing your children with your feedback.
If you have any questions or queries, please don't hesitate to email me.
Miss Prowse
