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Numeracy

We have been learning how to convert between currencies, the differences between credit and debit cards, what an APR is and how to calculate a monthly interest rate.  We were given a group budget to plan a holiday and created group SWAYs to showcase our learning. We are also continuing to participate in our Transition project with Mrs Lundberg at Armadale Academy every week.

Literacy

In literacy we created our own spooky stories! This was so much fun and we particularly enjoyed sharing these stories with the rest of the class!   We are studying poetry at the moment and we are looking forward to creating our own poems in different styles.

IDL

We have moved onto learning about Oceans.  From our class discussion, we had some fantastic ideas for IDL which we will be taking forward in our learning!

Health & Well being

We are completing Health & well being check ins over the next week.  We continue to model the school values of Ready, Respectful, Responsible and Safe.

P.E

We are learning Netball and Tag Rugby this term.  We have been focusing on the skills needed for these games such as throwing, passing and footwork.  We continue to do P.E inside and outside during the week.

Other areas

Mandarin – We are taking part in an 8 week block of Mandarin. We can say basic greetings, our name and count to 10!  We have also tried writing Chinese characters during our LIVE  weekly lessons.

 We have enjoyed:

Z – “I like doing rugby, it is fun”

C – “I am enjoying learning how to play netball”

F – “Writing my own spooky story was good; I think it was my best one yet!”

R – “I really enjoyed doing the abstract art and I like learning about budgeting”.

We enjoyed our Halloween themed activities last month in October for our party day!

We also want you to know…

We have been learning about money and using chimney sums to help us add and subtract – MK

We have liked learning about food chains – RM

There is always a producer that produces energy in food chains – LK

We have been talking about bullying and we are making sure we help people be more kind – CS

We are enjoying our class jobs and we get to work with other people in our class that we don’t sit beside – JD

I like our words of the week and try to use them inside the class and outside at break – AC

We have been learning about COP 26 and why it’s important – we have also been looking at global warming and we can confidently say what the greenhouse effect is. We will also be excited to learn about climate change in Australia and how the landscape and environment are changing. We have been really excited about completing experiments – we competed an experiment whereby we used baking soda, food colouring, a lamp to represent the sun as well as vingar to create a small amount of co2. We could see how global warming is created.

In maths we have been continuing to explore different ways of measuring – in particular we have been focussing on estimating lenghts and then taking their actual measurements and comparing the two. We have also been looking at mm, cm, meters and kilometers.