Monday, 23 July 2018

Welcome to Term 3!


Today's newsletter in case you didn't get it ...

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.

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