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Welcome back all of our superb 1/2 families and friends, we hope you had a restful break!
MATHS
Jumping right into Term 4, we have been busy practising our skip counting patterns and delving into the wonderful world of Money in Maths. Students have been working hard to skip count by 2s, 5s, 10s and all that’s in between! We have looked at the rules for each number pattern and explored the value of Australian Money. We have played many learning and warm up games such as ‘Buzz’ and ‘Skip Counting Maze’. Students in all classes have done an outstanding job of showing their understanding of number pattern on register rolls, and showing off their shopping and money skills in pop up classroom shops!
READING
In Reading, we have being investigating how to Infer. The 1/2 students are confident using their schema and the clues in texts to infer what the characters in books are thinking or feeling. Student have also had success at finding out the meaning of unfamiliar words through making inferences. Over the past two weeks we have read some inquisitive entertaining texts such as ‘Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus’ and ‘The Lost Thing’ to support us with our inferring.
WRITING
In Writing, we have started the term with lots of Entries! All students are showing that they are nearly ready for year 2 and year 3, showing excellent use of the Traits in the first week back! Students have been putting their own stamp and originality into their zoomed-in Entries. Students have also moved into a new writing cycle of Persuasive writing. All 1/2s have currently been immersing in a variety of Persuasive text types, and have identified their features, and what makes them a Persuasive text!
INQUIRY
In Inquiry, we are getting ready to create our own weather report! After viewing television weather reports from the news, and conducting our own research on extreme weather using the ipads, the 1/2s are becoming expert weather reporters! The 1/2s are now thinking about what extreme weather they would like to report on and have started to plan their own weather report video! All the 1/2s have been showing Innovation and Excellence as our reports begin to take shape.
Well done 1/2 students on a very successful fortnight's worth of learning and a great start to 4th Term!
Arriveaderci,
Miss Murray and the 1/2 Team.
MATHS
Jumping right into Term 4, we have been busy practising our skip counting patterns and delving into the wonderful world of Money in Maths. Students have been working hard to skip count by 2s, 5s, 10s and all that’s in between! We have looked at the rules for each number pattern and explored the value of Australian Money. We have played many learning and warm up games such as ‘Buzz’ and ‘Skip Counting Maze’. Students in all classes have done an outstanding job of showing their understanding of number pattern on register rolls, and showing off their shopping and money skills in pop up classroom shops!
READING
In Reading, we have being investigating how to Infer. The 1/2 students are confident using their schema and the clues in texts to infer what the characters in books are thinking or feeling. Student have also had success at finding out the meaning of unfamiliar words through making inferences. Over the past two weeks we have read some inquisitive entertaining texts such as ‘Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus’ and ‘The Lost Thing’ to support us with our inferring.
WRITING
In Writing, we have started the term with lots of Entries! All students are showing that they are nearly ready for year 2 and year 3, showing excellent use of the Traits in the first week back! Students have been putting their own stamp and originality into their zoomed-in Entries. Students have also moved into a new writing cycle of Persuasive writing. All 1/2s have currently been immersing in a variety of Persuasive text types, and have identified their features, and what makes them a Persuasive text!
INQUIRY
In Inquiry, we are getting ready to create our own weather report! After viewing television weather reports from the news, and conducting our own research on extreme weather using the ipads, the 1/2s are becoming expert weather reporters! The 1/2s are now thinking about what extreme weather they would like to report on and have started to plan their own weather report video! All the 1/2s have been showing Innovation and Excellence as our reports begin to take shape.
Well done 1/2 students on a very successful fortnight's worth of learning and a great start to 4th Term!
Arriveaderci,
Miss Murray and the 1/2 Team.
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