Term 4, Week 2

PYPX 2020 

Important notices

Welcome to Term 4, week 2. We are super excited to have our students back onsite for a productive and exciting final term 4. Please read through the following information, which outlines what the students will be focusing on this week. 

A few important reminders:  

• School finishes at 3.20pm. 
•  Miss Timmins , Miss Gillings and Emma are all moving classes while our current rooms gets painted. We would still like students to line up as normal in the Grade 6 area. 
• The Canteen is pre order only.
• Students will need their hats for Term 4.
• Please remind students to bring all of their work from Term 3. 

We thank you for your continued support and please don't hesitate to contact us via compass with any questions or queries. 

Exhibition 

Welcome to Exhibition Week 2.  This week, students focus on their Action/Initiative  component.   

Students will construct an action or initiative which will create change in our local community or household. Students will reflect on their inquiry and brainstorm ideas of actions/initiatives they may take as a result. Students will create an artefact or object that records their action.

Students should have at least one more mentor meetings before Friday. It is the student's responsibility to contact their mentor and organise these meetings. They will also have a meeting with their classroom teacher this week, to check in on their Exhibition work. In addition, some of the mini-lessons this week with be Exhibition based. 

Students will be learning how to 'cite' their sources and create a Bibliography based on the research they have been completed. It is important for the children to cite their sources  used in their research for several reasons: To show the reader they've done proper research by listing sources they used to get your information.  Also, it shows that they are a responsible writer by giving credit to other researchers and acknowledging their idea

Mathematics

The students will continue interpreting and creating timetables, and calculating and comparing elapsed time. They will practise their skills by completing problem solving tasks. 

Reading

In Reading this week, children will be revising Genres and Conventions. ll kinds of texts, imaginative, persuasive and informative, follow recognisable genres. There is a sense of ease and pleasure in the familiarity of a genre and a way of categorising likes and dislikes.

The study of genre enables children to see relationships between texts, the ways they are similar and the ways they are different or even innovative. It allows us to support students in analysing texts and in writing particular kinds of texts as it provides guidelines for structure, identifiable features and ways to deviate from conventional approaches.

The more students read in a genre, the more they are aware of the expectations it sets up. These expectations may be realised or disappointed, so confirming or challenging the ways that generic conventions are used to represent the world.