Senior Report

Literacy:

We have been running Literacy Groups of a morning in the Senior Classroom and the feedback from the students is that they are enjoying the groups. We break off and then come back to complete our text study which is still 'The Tale of Despereaux', we have one more part of the book to read until we are done. With our literature studies we have been focusing on our understanding of spelling, grammar and punctuation - looking at subordinating conjunctions and pronouns for the Super Stars and looking at the origins of words for the Genius Gems.

Maths

Multiplicative Thinking is our continued focus for another week, looking at distributive property, commutative property and the art of understanding worded problems. The students have realised just how important it is to know your timetables as we begin to focus on more challenging multiplicative thinking.

ART

We are exploring the techniques of acrylic paint, specifically techniques such as scgraffito, dots, wet on wet and splatter. Students have studied Eric Carle's work of The Tiny Seed and have created a beautiful art display of flowers using the scgraffito technique. Our art room is looking amazing!