Just a few things for this term...
Next week we welcome Mrs. Susan Radisich, a third year prac student from ECU who will be joining us for 5 weeks. She will be gradually increasing her teaching load through small group work and whole class teaching as the weeks progress under my supervision and this is a great opportunity for her to work with students and develop her teaching skills. Please come in and say hi!
Year 1 Prayer Assembly
Our assembly WAS scheduled for Week 2, but due to the new Year 5 and 6 buildings being open by Bishop Hollahan that afternoon, we will have to postpone to another date, please keep an eye on the blog for more information.
Homework
Targeting Mental Maths: We will continue to complete one unit per week next term, however if your child is a keen Mathematician they are able to pop onto Mathletics using their login in their Reading file.
Reading: We will continue to send readers home every two days for nightly reading this term.
Sight Words: The children will be tested early on in the term and we will continue to send home personal sight word lists throughout Term 4. Please watch the blog later this week for some important info about sight words when your child reaches past stage three words.
News
A copy of the News roster/groups will be given out this week. Another copy will be outside the classroom just in case :)
Change to Assembly Time for Term 4
Just a reminder that we are trialing a new time for Assembly this term, beginning at 2.20pm.
Grandparents Day
One of our favourite days of the year! All grandparents are warmly invited to come and visit on Monday 28th October, please let them know if you haven't already! Further details will follow in the newsletter.
Grandparents Day
One of our favourite days of the year! All grandparents are warmly invited to come and visit on Monday 28th October, please let them know if you haven't already! Further details will follow in the newsletter.
There is no assembly this week as the Year 6 students will have just returned from their Camp and many students will be making an early start off to Family Camp for the weekend!
Wheelie, Walkie, Waste Free Wednesday's
These kick off next week and will run for Week's 2 through to 5. There is a class challenge and I would love for our class to be the best in the school and see how many students we can get wheeling or walking. If you are unable to wheel or walk, please make sure your child is coming with as much nude food (no packaging) as possible
A bit about our learning this term...
This term we will begin by focusing on the concept of Fairytales which will be mainly integrated into our English block in the morning. We will be looking at a variety of texts and using an array of comprehension strategies to show our understanding of the text.
Our writing focus will be Persuasive letter writing and finishing off with a review of Narratives.
Grammar and punctuation will be an important part of our writing program this term. We are learning how to edit and punctuation sentences with a focus on selecting vocabulary that will 'bump up our sentences'. We will revise capital letters, full stops and learning more about exclamation marks, apostrophes, question marks and quotation marks.
Our Math focus will be a revision of Addition and Subtraction strategies with a focus on using these to solve word problems. We will also be looking at data, place value, location and transformation, odd and even numbers, skip counting and patterning.
In HASS we will be looking at how we can change spaces within places and how they can be rearranged to suit different purposes and how we can care for these places. We will also be looking at the seasons of Australia and how they are connected to our Noognar seasons created by the Aboriginal People.
In our Science unit we will be looking at the outcome of changes that occur in the sky and landscape and how these features help us with weather patterns and how things can change within our environment.
Phew...I think that's it!
See you all soon!
Miss Prowse
