Welcome to week 2, term 2

What an excellent start to the term we have had.  It is great to see all the smiles and the enthusiasm for learning from the fabulous kids in room 4.  We welcome Arianna and Skylia to our class.

There are a few changes this term, we are working on practising our key competencies and virtues by doing a lot of work in groups.  It is a different for some children, but it is all a learning curve that we will be successful at.  I shall keep you up to date through our blog.

We are looking at a science/technology based theme this term with lots of experiments and designing.  We are starting off looking at what plants need to grown, making comparisons and creating special conditions to suit our experiments – It is going to be a lot of hands on work and heaps of fun.

We are working on knowing what good writing looks like…thinking about what we can do to excite our audience and making sure we are editing our work to make it better.  This also involves a lot of reflection and buddy work.

We are continuing with our basic facts race track and also learning about measurement.  We are learning to make good estimates and then accurately measure length with a ruler.  We will also be looking at volume when we are working on our experiments.

I am looking forward to another great term with the fabulous learners in room 4!!!!