Xenica Community Report

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Our Online Learning at a glance for this month...

ReadingIn Term 3 Reading, students have been exposed to different reading strategies such as improving our comprehension, fluency, nouns, adjectives, verbs, wow words  and punctuation. 

Writing

In Term 3 Writing, students have explored researching and writing information reports. We have learnt how to use a variety of platforms (books, videos and internet) to research a topic and sort out our information into sections. For example, sorting our information, classification, appearance, habitat, diet and life-cycle. Once we have finished researching and planning our reports. We then proceed to writing our information reports using subheadings, diagrams, labels and paragraphs. We also  included adjectives in our information reports. 

Maths 

In Maths Term 3, Xenica has been focusing on multiplicative thinking. We have been learning how to subitize, using dots and other items. We have also been learning how to share items equally into 2, 3, 4 and more groups, which then leads to learning about how many items are in a group and early multiplicative thinking. We are also focusing on repeated addition, groups of and arrays. As a community, we are practicing these topics and learning of new multiplicative strategies to help students develop their multiplication knowledge. Lots of practice makes better understanding of knowing multiplication and division. Here are some examples of student work from the Xenica community:

SEL

In Social and Emotional learning this term, students in Xenica have been focusing on different important social and emotional strategies. They have demonstrated how they Care for their Learning by setting up and using their remote learning spaces in a positive manner. We have explored different strategies for coping with stress which has been particularly important considering our current lockdown. Finally we have also focused on showing kindness to others through completing random acts of kindness.  

Inquiry

In Inquiry, students are exploring the topic of living things. Students have participated in a celery experiment to explore living things. We have added our celery to a cup filled with water and food dye. Students made a prediction about what they believed would happen to the celery when left for a few days. After days passed, it was found that some predictions were correct. Check out the pictures below to see the results!

Important Notes to Remember

• Continue to read to and with your child each night.
• Encourage your child to develop more independence. (Be prepared for remote learning, clean your learning area). 
• Encourage your child to take increased responsibility for their own belongings.
• Establishing a regular routine helps students to develop a positive approach to learning and will benefit them as they progress through their schooling.
• Encourage your child to practise tying their own shoelaces.
• We continue to promote healthy eating. We allow students to have a piece of fruit and vegetable break at 10:15am. Students can have a fruit break at this time during remote learning. 
• If you need to speak to your child’s mentor teacher, please message the teacher through the compass during school hours.