Fantastic Fractions!

This week we have been focusing on fractions in Maths. We learnt all about halves and quarters and also how to write them, which is quite tricky! During the week we did some fun activities where we made fraction sundaes, played roll a fraction and today we made delicious fraction fairy bread. We had to cut our piece of fairy bread into halves and quarters. At the start of each Maths session we enjoyed singing a song about fractions which can be found at the following link. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DnFrOetuUKg We had so much fun learning about fractions!

Think Mentals due tomorrow

Dear Parents,

This is a friendly reminder that your child's Think Mental book (Unit 15 and 16) is due in tomorrow. If you could please write an encouraging comment on your child's work when they have completed it.

Thank you for your ongoing support!

Miss Lissiman

Magic Maths

Over the past two weeks we have been focusing on addition and subtraction. We have been working on improving our mental mathematics skills using a variety of strategies including think big count small, friends of 10, doubles and near doubles to mentally solve addition and subtraction sums up to 20. The children have enjoyed playing some addition and subtraction board games, friends of 10 snap, and a roll and solve activity. We have enjoyed beginning our Math sessions with addition and subtraction games on the interactive whiteboard. Here is the link if your child would like to play some of these games at home. Please note that the website only works on a computer and not on an iPad. http://www.arcademics.com Here are some photos of us enjoying playing games improving our addition and subtraction skills.

Our Learning in Term 4

Good afternoon Parents,

This term will be jammed pack and before we know it, it will be over!

This term we will begin by focusing on Fairytales which will be mainly integrated into our English block in the morning. We will be looking at a variety of texts and using an array of comprehension strategies to show our understanding of the text.

Our Writing focus will be Narrative, Persuasive and we will finish with letter writing in the lead up to Christmas.

Grammar and punctuation will be an important part of our writing program this term. We started the term looking at commas, creating comma kings and queens and exploring when we need to use commas in our writing. We will revise capital letters, full stops and learn more about exclamation marks, apostrophes, question marks and quotation marks.

Our Math focus will be a revision of Addition and Subtraction strategies with a focus on using these to solve word problems. We will also be looking at data, place value, fractions, odd and even numbers, skip counting and patterning.

In HASS we will be looking at how we can change spaces within places and how they can be rearranged to suit different purposes and how we can care for these places.

In our Science unit we will be looking at the outcome of changes that occur to every day substances. We will explore physical and chemical changes produces by energy sources eg. heating, melting or freezing.

There are some important dates ahead this term, please write these down in your diaries:

Sunday 23rd October: OLC Festival of Fun starting at 10am - 3pm

Catholic Day/ Student free day: Monday November 7th (Week 5)

Book Week dress up day: Friday 25th November 9am (Week 7)

OLC Award Night: Tuesday 6th December at 6.30pm (Week 9)

Term 4  finishes: Friday 9th December (Week 9)

If you have any questions please email me.

I am looking forward to a last wonderful term with your beautiful children!

Miss Lissiman

Think Mentals Books

Good evening parents,

This is just a friendly reminder that Units 15 and 16 will be due next Friday the 21st of October. The children are doing such a wonderful job working through each of the units and I can see this coming into their learning in class.

Thank you for marking your child's work and giving them some instant feedback, it is very much appreciated :)

Many thanks

Miss Lissiman

Sports Carnival

Yesterday we were blessed with beautiful weather for the children's first day back and our annual Sports Carnival. We eagerly arrived at school with coloured zinc, hair and mascots ready for the big day ahead. Throughout the morning we participated in a variety of different team games and running races. We all tried our very hardest and even if we didn't get ribbon, we still showed wonderful courage, optimism and sportsmanship. A big congratulations to everyone for doing their best and especially to Vinny and Skyla our champion boy and girl for Year One. A huge thank you to Mrs Sinclair for helping us practise and get organised for the day, the parents for cheering for us and the Year 6s who did an excellent job making sure we were ready for all of our events. We were exhausted by the end of the carnival but safe to say we had a great day and can't wait for next year's carnival.