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Term 4 Week 4

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It has been a busy fortnight in the P-2 area with lots of wonderful learning happening. 

Foundation

Grade Prep children are learning new tricky words, whilst constantly revising previously learnt words. They are revising their letters and vowel sounds. Their storybook lessons have been about “Jack and the Beanstalk.” They are learning new vocabulary such as: growled, crept, thundering and are making predictions about the story.

In maths, Grade Preps are learning about ordinal numbers and how to count positions using their ordinal numbers. They are also learning about place value by making tens and ones with tens frames.

Gr 1

Grade One children are learning the /ow/ /ou/ sound and the suffix /ed/. They are learning how to spell lots of words using these spelling patterns. They are enjoying the story book, “Migaloo - The White Whale.” As part of their study of this text, they watched some real video footage of Migaloo, the white whale. Further to this, they have been learning how to write facts from the story.

In Maths, Grade Ones are learning about 2D shapes and location, moving objects according to directions and changing locations by giving instructions. They finished their unit on Data Collecting last week.

Gr 2

Grade Two children have completed their latest spelling assessments. They have corrected any spelling errors by identifying the tricky spelling patterns and focusing on learning these parts correctly. They have read the story book, “You and Me, Murrawee.” They were able to answer questions about the text, learnt some new vocabulary: strain, ancient and stride and wrote an opinion piece about playing indoors compared to playing outdoors.

Foundation

In maths, Grade Preps are learning about ordinal numbers and how to count positions using their ordinal numbers. They are also learning about place value by making tens and ones with tens frames.

Gr 1 

In Maths, Grade Ones are learning about 2D shapes and location, moving objects according to directions and changing locations by giving instructions. They finished their unit on Data Collecting last week.

Gr 2

In Maths, the Grade Twos have been learning about bar models and how we can use them to solve problems involving the four operations. They have been practicing their grouping and sharing skills on the Targeting Maths app.

Gr 3 and 4

Literacy

Gr 3-4s are well into the novel 'Charlotte's Web' by E.B. White. 

We have again revised the prefixes re- , dis- , 'pre-  and how they change the base word. We have also revised suffixes and focused on -age words eg breakage, spillage, shortage, voltage.

Our vocabulary is taken from the novel 'Charlotte's Web'. We have learned what the following words mean: murmur, wondrous, remarkable, radiant, monotonous and versatile.

We have continued work on the conjunctions as well as independent and dependent clauses. 

During Spelling we revised words containing the /k/ phoneme and when and where you should use each spelling choice eg cat, kitten, sack. We circled back to review when to double the last letter when adding a suffix eg plan - planned, clap - clapping. We have also focused heavily on words with the -age suffix.

We are reviewing sentence types (statement, exclamation, question, command), dependent/independent clauses and simple/compound/complex sentences. Students have also been introduced to predicates.

Work on narrative writing continues. We have completed our introductions, action paragraphs and have begun our problem paragraphs. We have also completed our PAT Reading tests.

Work on 'Multiplication and Division' has finished and we have moved on to Decimals. We are representing and writing tenths and hundredths in decimal format and placing them on number lines. Our next step is writing and ordering numbers to two decimal places. 

Gr 5 and 6

Literacy

This week, in Literacy, we have started our new novel called "The Last Bear" by Hannah Gold. This story is about a lonely girl named April that travels to the Arctic with her scientist father and befriends a polar bear. It focuses on their developing friendship, and April's determination to help the bear, who is stranded and suffering due to the effects of climate change. In connection with this novel, during writing time, students are focusing on persuasive writing and in particular, writing a persuasive letter.

During spelling, our focus will be on the root words pend/pense and reviewing the other base words we focused on such as ven/vent, spec/spect, act, and vict.

In Maths, we are halfway through our 'Data Investigation' unit. Students are learning about the data collection process, including how to write survey questions, collecting data, graphing results and interpreting data.