What an amazing and busy Term 3 it has been! We have celebrated Wattle Day, shared our love of reading with book week and participated in a fantastic sports carnival! Congratulations Room 24, you continue to shine as enthusiastic young learners.
Our Learning this Term
In Literacy, we have been constructing compound sentences using conjunctions. We have expanded our knowledge of punctuation and can now recognise commas, speech marks and when to use capital letters in our writing. In all our Big Write, we are focusing on writing narratives that include an orientation paragraph for the beginning that describes the characters and setting with a sizzling start, a middle which features the problem, a series of events and a solution, before concluding with an ending to remember, not just they all lived happily ever after. The End!
In Numeracy, we are focusing on reading a calendar and telling the time. We are also extending our knowledge of chance and events as well as analysing data and creating graphs to represent the data. At the beginning of the term, we were able to add and subtract with numbers within 20, and now we are able to add and subtract numbers to 40 with and without regrouping. Each week we continue to work on our mental maths skills and our word number problem strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems with number bonds and sentences.
In Science, we have been learning about habitats for living things. Over the next few weeks, we are going to design and construct our own habitat for a living creature. Please remember to bring in a and any special materials you may need to be able to make your habitat.
In HASS, we have explored places and spaces. We are now able to identify natural, constructed and managed features of our environment. We can recognise how spaces are used and why, as well as how we can and need to protect special places within our environment.
In STEM, we are researching, designing and building our own treehouse. We are using our knowledge of ICT to help us research. Our science, engineering and mathematics skills to design and build. Then we will create our narrative about our treehouse once we have completed our build. We have also begun coding using the laptops, and have enjoyed making our lightbot character move and light up squares.
Updates for Term 4
We will be starting Term 4 with our dancing lessons. Please make sure you have returned your permission form and have paid for classes before the end of Term 3.
If you have any queries, please email me or phone the school and leave a message for me to give you a call. I am looking forward to a successful Term 4.
Have a happy and safe holiday.
Kind regards,
Mrs Thomas
