Welcome to Term 3!
What a start
to Term 3! So far this term we have started Glogging, continued Blogging, are
participating in a Virtual Exchange Student program and a Virtual Olympics! It
is sure to be a very busy term.
Meet Andrea- our Virtual Exchange Student from Colegio Del Sol in Paraguay. We will be
participating online in activities to learn
about her school, country, culture and
life. Kyla from our grade has been sent to Andrea’s class
so they can learn about us!
READING:
In
Reading, we will continue to develop a deep understanding of reading skills
based on the CAFE reading model- Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency and Extended
Vocabulary. We will be focusing on activating our prior knowledge and schema,
making and supporting our predictions, extending our ability to make inferences
and increasing our understanding of new and interesting words in texts.
WRITING:
In writing, we will continue to use our
VOICES menu to develop our understanding and knowledge of the six traits of
writing- Voice, Organisation, Ideas, Conventions, Excellent Word Choice and
Sentence Fluency.
Students will continue to work in small
groups and participate in teacher conferences to work on individual writing
goals based on the VOICES menu.
MATHS:
Maths this
term will be very busy with students learning about patterns, number sequences
and being introduced to algebra.
Students will also focus on volume and capacity, converting units, 3D Shapes, surface area, angles,
fractions, decimals and percentages and chance and probability.
This is our Maths Menu that we have recently started.
INQUIRY:
Our Inquiry topic for Term 3 is ‘How Do Living Things
Work?’. Students will
investigate and compare functioning systems in animals and plants, in
particular digestive, circulatory, respiratory, nervous, skeletal and muscular systems.
They will investigate how systems
operate; for example, the human body as a large system consisting of smaller
separate systems
working together, and life cycles as systems
for survival.
HOME READING:
It is a requirement that students are reading
at home every week night. We ask that readers are returned to school every
Wednesday and Friday SIGNED by a
parent.
HOMEWORK:
Students are required to
bring their homework in EVERY Friday for check in.
What are you looking forward to most this term?
