Room 14 - Mrs Marian Conder
 

Welcome back to Room 14 for Term 3!!

Another busy term with lots of focused learning and individual goals to meet.

We are currently writing persuasive texts, arguing points of view giving convincing evidence to support our ideas.

 We will be following up with speech writing and performing.  An exciting time with a class competition and syndicate finals to finish.

Room 14 have also been introduced to ‘paired writing’ this term.  A short writing program designed to create writing motivation, accuracy and communication about writing with each other.  So far everyone has been successful and looks forward to our daily sessions.

For the first half of the term our guided reading program is focused on self monitoring strategies and vocabulary development.  After that we will revisit inferencing, drawing all our reading skills together so that we can understand texts at a higher level, ‘read in between the lines’.  At home we are reading novels and completing mini novel reviews.

Our topic work includes a variety of activities based around the idea of enterprise.  We will be learning about managing our money and choices that we make about saving and spending.  Our ultimate goal is to plan and make a product to sell at a syndicate market day – an exciting project for everyone!

Our major art project will be using a combination of technology and painting when we look at self-portraits.  This includes high and low contrast photography and the use of contrasting paint colours.

To begin the term our math topic is proportions and ratios (fractions, decimals and percentages).  After this we will go onto geometry looking at area, volume and shape transformations.

P.E has had an energetic start with cross country training and Project Energise’s Homeplay program.

I hope everyone enjoys their challenges and reaches their personal goals this term – Mrs Conder.

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