Term 2 Week 5

READING We love reading plays with our reading groups. Mack dressed up as a robot.

SPELLING
This week our sound is er.We know there are different ways to hear that sound:ir,ur,or

MATHS
We are still learning about Multiplication and Division. I hope everyone is learning their times tables at home!!!

TECHNOLOGY
We have been making book paddles for the Library.Thanks Cherie for coming to help us paint.The paddles are looking awesome and all we need to do now is polyurethane them. Hopefully Mr Hurrell will help Totara get a board to display them!

CROSS COUNTRY
Thursday is the school cross country at Solway Showgrounds. We still need some parents to take us there in their cars. GOOD LUCK everyone you have been training hard.

TERM TWO

WEEK THREE

Welcome back to school everyone! In the holidays I went to visit my brothers who live in Adelaide AUSTRALIA. We had very warm weather which was fantastic.

This is the season of AUTUMN.On Friday we had Discovery Time with our buddy class KAURI.We participated in these activities.

• Leaf stencils
• Texture rubbings
• Photography
  

The whole school was buzzing on Friday morning as we discovered new skills and enhanced our social skills.

Spelling

This weeks sound is 'oo'. On Monday we will brainstorm as many words as we can and choose 10 for Spelling Homework. Our phonics trigraph is 'ght'.

MATHS

We are learning about MULTIPLICATION & DIVISION.
We know that there are different names for multiplying - groups of, rows of, times and multiply.
We are learning the 2,3,4,5 and 10 times tables. Skip counting in 2,3,4,5,and 10's is another number knowledge activity we are practising. On Friday we are learning about MEASUREMENT - these are some of the words we need to understand
short, shorter, shortest, log, longer, longest, less, more ...

Writing
We are writing Explanations this term. So far we have written about our values. This week we will explain the reasons why things happen in and around our school.

The Arts
This term we will learn more painting and printing skills.
We looked carefully at the autumn colours of leaves and then with a sponge we dabbed paint onto a piece of paper overlaying 3 colours. We are proud of the way our pictures turned out.

Welcome
Emily joined our class this term and she is a
Year 4. We are loving having Emily in our class.