Grade 1/2 News

Key Dates: 

• Friday 31st October - Be Awesome Day / Colour Run 
• Thursday 6th November - Grade 2 Sleepover, The Discovery Centre (This event has been released on Compass)
• Friday 7th November - Movie - 'The Twits' (See Compass for further details)
• Friday 14th November - Curriculum Day - Reporting & Assessment 

Be Awesome Day - Donations

Thank you to families who have been able to donate items for our 'Be Awesome Day' stalls. We are greatly appreciative of this to help the day run successfully. 

Grandparent's and Special Friend's Day

It was wonderful to have so many grandparents and special friends visit us in our classrooms. Thank you to those families who were able to support this day.

Maths Challenge

Congratulations to 1/2 Edwards for winning our first Maths Challenge of Term 4!

Please find our new Maths Challenge below:

What we have been up to...

In Writing, we have been learning how to write a persuasive piece of writing using persuasive devices such as rhetorical questions, exaggeration and emotive language. 

In Mathematics, we have been learning about fractions, including halves, quarters and eigths.

For Topic, we have been investigating some of the games that children played in the past as well as some of the popular toys and the materials that they were made out of.

Photos from the last fortnight...

Upcoming Learning for Weeks 5 & 6

Over the coming weeks, we will be completing all of our end of year assessments.

Reading, Writing and Spelling: 

Our focus texts for Weeks 5 and 6 are:

• Welcome to Country
• The Plot Chickens

During Writing lessons students will be sharpening their recount skills by reflecting on some their favourite and most memorable moments from this year. In Week 6, we will revisiting narrative texts.

Mathematics: During weeks 5 and 6, we will be revising some of the key concepts that we have been learning about this year as well as completing a number of assessments.

Topic: For Topic, students will have an opportunity to share the items that they bring in from home.

Respectful Relationships: Our school focus in Respectful Relationships this term is Positive Gender Relationships.