Level 3 & 4 Wonga Weekly

CBL

This week we will complete our last science exploration session.

Ask your child to show you their Science Keynote on their iPad to find out about all the things that they have been learning about over the last six weeks.

After this, we will begin to work on our challenge, 'Showcase your new discoveries in science'

READING

This week we will continue summarising; identifying important ideas in a text. We will be  challenging ourselves to summarise short texts in one sentence, including the key concepts and main ideas from the text within the sentence.

What you can do at home

Ask your child to read a text from the Reading Eggs library and share with you a summary of  the important parts of the story they read. Prompt your child to tell you what happened at the start, in the middle and then how it ended.

WRITING

This week we will practise writing narratives. Students will be encouraged to consider all the important writing elements that we have been focusing on (idea, voice, word choice, organisation, sentence structure and conventions) in order to make their written response engaging for the reader .

What you can do at home

Make up stories together, include characters who have a problem to solve during the story. Find a solution that helps to conclude the story. Be as imaginative as you can when coming up with the story parts!

MATHS

We will be completing a fractions Learning Snapshot this week and we encourage you to ask your child to share their learning with you. You can find this task in your child's Showbie account.

Over the next couple of weeks we will be focusing our maths thinking on many other areas of learning; map reading, location, data collection, and spending money. We will be presenting an exciting collection of tasks around a family day out at the zoo. Students will complete this task on their iPads, it is important that they come to school each day with this learning tool available.

What you can do at home

Encourage your child to spend some time each night exploring Mathletics to help revise many of the concepts that we have looked at throughout this year.

REMINDERS

Swimming Program-

Just a reminder that our School Swimming program starts next week (week 8). We will be  swimming each day of the week.  Please keep an eye out this week for final reminders about the program and what your child will need to bring each day. Thank you also to those parents who have volunteered their time to attend as a parent helper.

iPads-

Please help your child remember to pack a fully charged iPad in their school bag each day. We use iPads as a learning tool many times throughout the week. This is made much easier when students remember to bring these tools to school each day!

UPCOMING DATES

Monday 20th November - Friday 24th November - Swimming program

Wednesday 6th December - Carols evening

Wednesday 20th December - last day of the year (early dismissal - 1:30pm)