Grade 1/2 News

Term 3, Week 8
Welcome back to the Grade 1/2 page!

Key Dates:

Friday 12th September - Footy Colours Day
Friday 19th September - End of Term 3- 2:15 dismissal
Monday 6th October - Term 4 Begins
Wednesday 15th October - Curriculum Day - Berry St training for Staff
Friday 24th October - Grandparents' Day 11:30am – 2:15pm
Wednesday 29th October - Bendigo Cup Day
Friday 31st October - Be Awesome Day / Colour Run

Maths Challenge

Congratulations to 3/4 Mitchell for winning our final Maths Challenge of Term 3!

We will be posting our next challenge in the first newsletter of Term 4.

What we have been up to...

We had an awesome day at the Melbourne Zoo on Monday. Highlights from the day included watching the giant tortoises move, meeting the baby giraffe, watching the pygmy hippo and seeing the red bottoms of the baboons. A big thank you to Mrs Rodda for her organisation of this event to ensure that the day ran smoothly.

In Writing, students have been learning about the purpose of an information report and have been examining how they are structured. Next week, the students will write an information report about a chosen animal.

In Mathematics, we completed a mapping activity for the students to familiarise themselves with the zoo. We have also continued our work on skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s.

For Topic, students have been busy working on different aspects of their puppet show with the goal of performing them in front of their class next week.

Photos from the last fortnight...

Upcoming Learning In Term 4

Reading, Writing and Spelling:

Students will be reading and writing for a range of purposes in Term 4, including recounts, persuasive texts, narratives and letter writing. They will be revising phonemes, spelling rules and Heart Words.

Our focus texts for Weeks 1 and 2 next term are:

The Word Collector
Tilly

Mathematics: During weeks 1 and 2, students will be revising the multiplication and division concepts that we covered this term. This will be followed by learning about fractions and decimals.

Topic: The Topic for Term 4 is 'Through Generations'. Students will investigate how family and school life has changed over time.