Term 3 Week 6
Week 6
Upcoming events:
Thursday 24th August: SCHOOL PHOTOS – Please wear
winter dress uniform (no tights) and bring along white sports shoes and socks
to change into (full sports wear is not required for our class).
Next Friday 1st September: 2H PRAYER ASSEMBLY
Mathematics: Last
week we were focusing on subtraction and learning how to organise sums into
vertical arrangement (columns of tens and ones). We have also been using number grids and number
lines to solve subtraction sums. Today
some of us even learnt how to regroup, borrowing tens and bringing them into
the ones/units column when there wasn’t enough.
Some fun acting out pizza shop scenarios was had! We will be learning
about money next week, combining our knowledge about skip counting, addition
and subtraction operations to make different amounts and solve money
problems.
English: We have
been focusing on our comprehension of texts, answering different types of
questions and searching (skimming and scanning) the text for keywords in the
question to help find the answers. We
are enjoying using highlighters to locate our answers too! We are also continuing to be on the look out
for interesting and unknown words to help build our vocabulary. Don’t forget during your next classroom visit
to look at our ever-growing Magpie word wall for words we have used in our
writing. We have ‘magpied’ these WOW words
because they have been sneakily stolen from other authors to help our writing
be even better for our readers.
Parent Help: A
parent help roster for help in Mathematics lessons is on the wooden cubbies
next to the parent communication/pickup bus book. Help is always welcome! Please feel free to email us with suitable
dates if you are not able to write your name on the roster in the
mornings.
Seesaw: we now
have 24 connected families that are able to view their child’s learning
journals! The students love sharing their work with you and noticing your likes
and comments. It is also a great way to share a little of our learning that
happens in our classrooms. Any feedback on the use of seesaw as a parent would
be welcomed as it is the first time I have used it. Please see Mrs King if you are having
difficulty starting access to your child’s seesaw learning journal.
If anyone has any donations of lemons, they would greatly appreciated - as many as possible as it's for a secret upcoming gift...;)
As always, thank you for your continued support.
God Bless.
Penny and Kristy
