Learning Community 3
5/A - Mr Rennie
5/6 B - Mrs. Pettigrove
Welcome back to school, and to upper primary!
We have had an exciting few weeks, getting to know each other, building relationships and exploring how our classes will operate. Students have begun to settle in nicely to the new class rhythms, and made wonderful suggestions about how we might work best as a Learning Community and within each class. Mr. Rennie and Mrs. Pettigrove have been really impressed at the leadership displayed by this cohort, especially with making contributions to our first school assembly for the year, after only 3 days of school.
In Maths we have created graphs that represent each class and taken surveys. We extended this knowledge of representing graphs to understand line graphs and how they are a representation of changes that are usually over time. We have since moved onto place value and review how the number system works before we dive into addition in the next few weeks. Students have enjoyed the slow pace of learning as we check for understanding before ramping our learning.
In writing we have been completing opinion pieces looking at how we write an opinion with evidence, not only an internal lens. We have written an opinion piece with prompts for It better to have a pet than no pet and It better to read books over movies. We have discussed how each paragraph needs to TEEL (Topic, Evidence, Explaion, Link) and pracitce identifying each part in others writing and our own.
In reading, we have begun to establish the expectations for Literacy Cirlces and the roles that we will be using for this in the coming weeks. Each student will hold a role that they will be reporting back to their group with. We have looked at the Summariser and connector so far!
Everyone is really excited to be back at school and we hope that your first week has been fantastic, full of reuniting with firends and connecting with new ones!
Great to be back at school!
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