Classroom News
Foundation
Term 3, Week 8
Blackburn Primary School
End of Term Newsletter
Can you believe another term has come and gone so quickly! And what an incredible Term 3 we have had!
We celebrated 100 Days of School, Science Day, dived into a land of dress ups Fairytale Fiascos and enjoyed Book Fun Day, the list goes on and on!
We have been immersed in our Fairytale unit and seen some wonderful creative designs of work in STEM. Our students have been solving different Fairytale problems in our STEM sessions, planning and creating their designs. Who wouldn’t want to design, create and test a watercraft suitable to carry the Gingerbread Man to safety from the sneaky Dingo? Lots of fun was had by everyone, even our special grown ups joined in on the fun!
Literacy
Our focus in Reading has been interpreting various Fairytale mentor texts with an Australian twist. Our students have continued to develop decoding strategies and fluency. We have been using sticky notes to track our thinking whilst we read. Tracking our thinking whilst we read is an important part of comprehension. We use the sticky note thinking to help us with understanding the important part of the text eg. making connections, asking questions, visualising, as well as identifying new vocabulary.
Our Foundies are now following the full Writing Process, from brainstorming their ideas to drafting, revising, editing and finally publishing their writing for an audience. All students from Foundation to Year 6 follow The Writer’s Workshop model at BPS.
Numeracy
This term in Mathematics we have taught many different concepts including Place Value, Multiplication (making groups), Division (sharing) as well as Addition and Subtraction. Many of these areas have been linked with our Fairytale Unit. Look out for colourful fairytale towns outside on the windows of our classrooms soon, full of arrays and equal groups!
Over the holidays you may like to look for opportunities to discuss mathematical concepts you see in the environment, such as reading numbers, skip counting, looking at shapes in our environment and discussing sides and corners, cooking is also a great way to practise concepts in Maths too!
Enjoy the time away, and we will see you before you know it!
Alannah, Kirsten, Vicky and Louise.