Dear Parents,
Please check the recent 'dates to remember' section. More events will be inserted at a later date.
RELIGION: Revisit the three Sacraments of Initiation. Revise the Sacrament- Baptism and the symbols. Introduce Confirmation.
ENGLISH: Mentor Texts: Good Enough For a Sheep Station ( Writing trait - voice) / Flame Stands Waiting ( Writing trait- word choice) , morphology ( suffix-ly), phonology( or, ore, a, aw, au, t, tt ) Orthography ( add s for plurals, rules for adding ing) , Etymology ( carousel, melodies, queues, twilight, beast, ,paddock, chores, shearing, homestead, stockman ), compound words. Make innovations from sentences.
Writing: Continue to write daily. Use lively verbs, adjectives, adverbs and nouns from books and brainstorm rich language from pictures to assist with writing. Continue to model how to write historical diary entries.
MATHS: Continue to revise subtraction regrouping, subtraction number facts, multiplication number facts and calculating change to the nearest five cents from simple transactions. Introduce reading maps using directional language.
HASS: Continue exposing students to what life was like for a child in the 1800s and what the EKKA was like in the 1800s.
Friday, 27 July 2018
Monday, 23 July 2018
Term 3 Weeks 1and 2
Dear Parents,
This term in Week 5, the children will be attending the Brisbane Royal Exhibition ( The Ekka) as part of our History unit. We are making comparisons between the 1800s and now. The Ekka began in 1876. Each group of five children will be accompanied by an adult. Further information will be provided closer to the date.
RELIGION: Introduce the three Sacraments of Initiation.
ENGLISH
Writing genre: historical diary entry. In class, we will be writing diary entries from the perspective of a child in the 1800s. They will be based on chores, games and school of this era.
Reading Workshops: the children are enjoying reading independently for up to forty minutes while the teacher conferences with individual children. The decoding strategies we are working on are chunking and reading on for meaning.
Literature: We are reading books based on the 1800s. The children have enjoyed listening to 'The Dog On the Tuckerbox' and the poem 'My Country'.
MATHEMATICS
Division: dividing by 2 number facts ( relating this to the 2x table and halves)
Subtraction number facts ( relating these to addition number facts)
Subtraction regrouping
Money: calculating change using the count on method
HASS: Life in the 1800s - transport, clothing, chores, school, punishment, games, family life
Art: Last week the children made a sheep using finger prints of white paint to make the image of the wool. This week the children will draw a charcoal picture of worker's cottage with a wooden fence which will show as a reflection on the nearby river.
This term in Week 5, the children will be attending the Brisbane Royal Exhibition ( The Ekka) as part of our History unit. We are making comparisons between the 1800s and now. The Ekka began in 1876. Each group of five children will be accompanied by an adult. Further information will be provided closer to the date.
RELIGION: Introduce the three Sacraments of Initiation.
ENGLISH
Writing genre: historical diary entry. In class, we will be writing diary entries from the perspective of a child in the 1800s. They will be based on chores, games and school of this era.
Reading Workshops: the children are enjoying reading independently for up to forty minutes while the teacher conferences with individual children. The decoding strategies we are working on are chunking and reading on for meaning.
Literature: We are reading books based on the 1800s. The children have enjoyed listening to 'The Dog On the Tuckerbox' and the poem 'My Country'.
MATHEMATICS
Division: dividing by 2 number facts ( relating this to the 2x table and halves)
Subtraction number facts ( relating these to addition number facts)
Subtraction regrouping
Money: calculating change using the count on method
HASS: Life in the 1800s - transport, clothing, chores, school, punishment, games, family life
Art: Last week the children made a sheep using finger prints of white paint to make the image of the wool. This week the children will draw a charcoal picture of worker's cottage with a wooden fence which will show as a reflection on the nearby river.
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