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Welcome back to Term
Three! I hope you and your family had a refreshing break. I spent time with my
mother in Thames and did day trips around our beautiful city. Remember to check
the classroom blog each week for updates. You should be getting this on email
for your convenience – let me know if this isn’t happening. With a new term
comes lots of new, exciting things for your child to learn. I’ll tell you more
about these in this newsletter and throughout the term. Stars of the Week in
the last week of Term Two were Tuipulotu Palanite and Lola Davis for their
amazing art work. PB4L draw winners were Esha Patel and Abtha Abdul Razack.
Homework
Your child is
expected to do at least 10 minutes reading, practise their spelling words and
basic facts each night. They have access to Studyladder (literacy and numeracy)
and Sumdog (numeracy) websites. I have also signed them up to Sunshine
Classics, a reading website. A home study sheet has gone home today and your
child has two weeks to complete it.
Reading
Readers went home
today. Your child can read these at home as well as books you have at home. I
encourage you to take them to the public library to give them exposure to lots
of different texts. A big focus this term will be comprehension and retelling/summarising
main events. You can help by asking lots of questions about what they read at
home.
Writing
This term your child
will learn to write procedural texts – these are a step-by-step guide on how to
do or make something. You can familiarise them with this type of text by
following a recipe in the kitchen. They will also write explanations – how
something works or why it happens. Topics will include objects they can relate
to e.g. bey blades, scooters and bicycles.
Poetry will continue throughout the term as normal.
Maths
Your child may be in
a new group this term as we change our focus to ratios and proportions. I’d
like to reiterate if they move down a group it doesn’t mean they have gone backwards
in maths. For some children they’re better at multiplication and division than
ratios and proportions. This doesn’t necessarily change their global stage.
Your child is learning about geometry in strand this term.
Inquiry
This term students
will learn about the ways in which people participate in economic activities
and about the consumption, production, and distribution of goods and services.
They will develop an understanding of their role in the economy and of how
economic decisions affect individuals and communities.
Coming up …
Book Week, July 30th-August
3rd, Book character parade, August 3rd.
