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Welcome back to Term 2. I hope everyone had a relaxing holiday and are ready for the term. As usual the term is jam packed with activities.
Our theme for the Term is ‘Growing Up & My Well Being,’ which will encompass three weeks of ‘Milestones I reach in my health/growth development,’ three weeks on ‘Nutrition’ and two weeks of ‘My Community and my well being.’ I am trying to organise some extra physical activities such as yoga and a fitness session to help us with our physical well being. We will also be looking at healthy diets and how to eat well. Fruit and vegetables beware!
To commence our unit, each student needs to bring to school 4 photos of themselves. One as a beautiful newborn, as a toddler doing something, a photo from kinder and finally one of them as a Grade 2 or 3 student. The photos need to be brought to school as soon as possible. Thanks.
In Literacy we are continuing to work on our writing styles and skills in writer’s workshop. In reading we are completing a range of new and exciting activities. We are working on developing our thinking skills when reading and writing to improve our comprehension skills.
In Numeracy we continue to cover a range of topics through many hands on and exciting activities in the areas of Number, Space, Measurement, Problem Solving, Chance and Data and Working Mathematically.
The grade 3’s will be completing the NAPLAN test in May. The areas tested are Numeracy, Reading, Writing and Spelling and Grammar. The children will be completing practise tests and becoming familiar with the format and delivery of the NAPLAN tests. The Grade 4’s will be completing school based tests at this time.
Each student will be expected to do a project this term as well as a short oral class presentation. The dates and topics for the project and class presentation will be sent home later on in the term.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any concerns with or about your child’s academic, social and emotional development.
Regards,
Helen Burgess