45S - AROUND THE TRAPS

News

Firstly, congratulations to the grade 4 and 5 students who are undertaking reconciliation this Wednesday night. 

Apologies for missing the newsletter last week!

Literacy 

Students will be finalising and presenting their persuasive speeches this week around renewable energy (grade 5/6)  and a local volunteer group ( grade 4). We look forward to sharing these together in small groups with the opportunity to go a step further and present them to the Lions club judges on Friday.

Literacy Circles have continued this week in our reading groups. Each group is focussing on the strategy of inferring  - using the clues in the text to make an inference. In addition to their literacy circle tasks e.g text summarizer, passage finder, vocab finder etc, the children are provided with two reflective questions to discuss during the discussion director role which has brought out some really great insights and perspectives around different themes in the texts.

Maths

Patterns and Algebra have continued this week. Many students are working on noticing number patterns and identifying missing values in a number sentence. 

For example, 4 x ? = 95 - 15. We are also trying to place some importance on number sense and fluency at the start of each maths lesson. Without basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division skills, students are finding difficult concepts hard to grasp.

Religion: The Church in Australia. 

In Religion the children have been creating a timeline of events and important people involved in the development of the church from the First feet until the time of federation.