Learning Community 2

We are now halfway through Term 2 and heading into a busy finish, with Swimming starting next Monday, June 1st. Please remember to pack a towel and a change of clothes each day. We also enjoyed celebrating Wear it Yellow Day together, helping raise awareness and showing support for First Nations communities and culture.

Our focus in Maths has been on exploring multiplication and division through a range of hands-on activities, games, and problem-solving tasks. They have practised using strategies such as drawing diagrams and groups, working backwards, and organising information using tables to solve multiplication and division problems. Students have also used the QUACK problem-solving process to help them understand questions, identify important information, choose suitable strategies, and check their answers.

In Writing, we have been focusing on procedural texts and exploring how authors use clear steps and detailed language to explain how to complete a task. As a class, students examined examples of procedures and identified key features such as titles, materials, numbered steps, and command verbs. A strong focus was placed on using adverbs to describe how actions are completed, helping students make their writing more detailed, engaging, and entertaining. To encourage creativity, students planned and wrote imaginative and humorous procedures for unusual or unrealistic tasks, such as, How to Sneak a Unicorn into School.

In Reading, we have been focusing on developing their understanding of Tier 3 vocabulary within non-fiction texts. They created a class word wall of topic-specific vocabulary linked to different learning areas and used glossaries, context clues, and the word wall to identify, understand, and apply unfamiliar words when reading. Through guided reading and research activities, students explored how specialised vocabulary helps readers understand new concepts and communicate ideas more accurately.

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