Welcome Back for Term 4!

I hope you guys all had a great 2 weeks holiday and are ready to get back into it! Term 4 is going to be super busy with lots of great stuff happening! We've got our athletics afternoon, culture groups, Get Set Go PE lessons every Thursday, Christmas Crossover and so many other exciting things happening!

We're all learning about Pacific Cultures in our inquiry and Room 7 are going to be looking at Samoa and sharing our new learning with the rest of the junior school. We're going to be looking at food in week 1, clothes in week 2, shelter in week 3 and myths and legends in week 4. Perhaps you could ask your family if they know anything about these topics, or if you have anything from home you could use to help you learn?

In Writing we're continuing with explanations and using paragraphs to sort our ideas and then we're going to move on to letters, reports and descriptions. Remember that you need full stops, capital letters and ALL your words in your writing! Keep practicing your spelling every night to help you become better than before and a superstar speller!

In Reading we're concentrating on our skills to use while we're reading and how to think about the text we've read. Room 7 are great readers and can find out what the words say and mean, but we're going to be better than before at predicting what's going to happen in the text, thinking about the characters in stories and how they can make a story different, AND getting better at reading the book and making decisions about what the story is really telling us in it's hidden meanings! Get better than before by reading your book EVERY night at home and GET YOUR NOTEBOOK SIGNED!

In Maths we're looking at fractions and problem solving. We all need to be able to use fractions and name them when we're done! For problem solving we're going to need all of our skills from the year to answer questions using adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing - so make sure those basic facts stay super fast by practicing! Mrs Dunne is going to be doing different Maths and looking at position and orientation and talking about directions, as well as probability.

You're going to have so much to do this term so make sure you're sleeping enough, eating the healthy food your body needs and concentrating hard!

From,

Miss Walters
:)