Week 4 ~ February 15 -19

This week we commenced Literacy Groups. At the moment we are learning the routines as to how this operates in 3WS this year. On Wednesdays and Fridays this needs to be a short session due to our Specialist Lessons. I will send out a note asking for Parent Helpers early next week. Every child has read and responded to their shared text. All students have written a narrative, explored punctuation (fullstops, capital letters and talking marks) and looked at different letter combinations to represent the 'f' for feather sound.
All children completed a Maths Test online and have been learning more about length. The children are enjoying Mental Maths and are especially proud of their improvements in speed and accuracy with the 2 x tables. Thanks for your assistance with this. All students have their Mathletics usernames and passwords and I will be setting home tasks as well as showing them more features within Mathletics. Tables Toons are quite a good way to drill times tables!
We continue to talk about and model RESPECT and how this looks within our classroom and school. The children have all had a turn looking after the school chickens, some more enthusiastically than others.
Year 3/4 Sport is now on Monday during the last session. We have the Looking After ME program commencing this Thursday 25th February during the first sessions. This is facilitated by Hawthorn Football Club and the SEDA program. There are 3 sessions, all on Thursdays at the same time for the 3 & 4 classes.
SRC badges will be presented at Thursday's Assembly. Congratulations to Lena and Julian. The Welcome Picnic is to be held on Friday 26th February commencing at 5:30. Here's hoping the school oval is finished!