Welcome to Term 2

Hi everyone,

Welcome back to Term 2!

The first two weeks have flown by and the students have all got to work straight away, which has been very pleasing.

We are very excited to have ECU student, Miss McKercher, join us in Room 24 this term. Miss McKercher is completing her final teaching practice at Wattle Grove and will be with us for the duration of Term 2.

 In Maths, students have been learning about the features of 3D shapes, as well as revising column addition and subtraction with regrouping and a revision of statistics and graphing.

Our literacy groups are back underway. The students have been revising and learning new phonics sounds. In comprehension, we have been learning about author’s purpose and using venn diagrams to compare texts. We have been looking at plurals and the various spelling rules. Did you know that "if a noun ends in a y and the letter before is a consonant, we have to change the y to an i and add es?"

In HASS, the students have been enjoying Genius Hour. Each Friday, students have been using their inquiry skills to pose questions, research and collect information about their chosen celebration/commemoration. They will then be responsible for sharing their information with the class, later in the term.

In Science, students have been investigating the similarities and differences between living and non-living things and categorising plants and animals, according to their unique features.

This term, our focus value is resilience. We will be exploring what this means and looking for opportunities to build these skills over the term.

We are in for a busy but exciting Term!

Kind regards,

Miss B