Term 2, Week 6

Thanks again to everyone for another super week in Room 3, and a big congratulations to all Room 3 students who ran in the junior school cross country last Tuesday, it was an amazing effort by all! We have also now competed our Chinese experience with Mrs Pauline Chan as well as our KOS programme with Constable Garland.

This week the junior syndicate is beginning a gymnastics programme. We will go to the hall twice a week and try out a variety of equipment as we develop our balance, strength and agility. We are also continuing with our mixed media art programme as well as our music focus, and we’ll be using the ipads and laptops to refine our ICT skills as we reflect on our KOS skills for saying no (ask, tell, yell!) and what we have learned about time. 


A note for all students and homework helpers; as a class, we need to be paying close attention to the words we read when we are sharing a story. Please focus on monitoring your own reading to check that what you are saying matches the sense of the story (you might find some clues in the pictures), and that it matches the letters you see as well. If you get stuck on a word, try


- guessing what might make sense
- looking for a clue in the picture
- sounding out the letters (get your mouth ready for the first sound and then go from there - you could even robot as you sound out!)
- going back to the start of the sentence to try again
- looking for smaller words that you know inside the bigger one (e.g. today we found FOUR words in shellfish - she, is, shell and fish!)


Once again we are looking forward to seeing Mrs Fleur Jessop on Wednesday while Miss Driver is on release.