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Hello Parents and Students,

This is what's on this week:

News Topic:
* Your Home: Describe the house you live in. How many rooms? What colour paint, carpet or floorboards etc? What is your favourite room? Why?
You might want to draw a map of your house to help you with your description

Spelling
* Sounds are the same this week as last week

'wh' and 'a-e' (long a sound)

NOTE: Please don't just learn the list below as this is purely a guide of some of the words that might be tested.

1. what	1. cake
2. when	2. bake
3. where	3. make
4. which	4. came
5. why	5. same
6. while	6. name
7. wheel	7. made
8. whirl	8. date
9. wheat	9. mate
10. whisper	10. late
	11. race
	12. safe
	13. wake
	14. trace
	15. blame
	16. place
	17. blaze
	18. space
	19. chase
	20.scale

Grammar
* Verbs (Doing words i.e. skipping, swimming, eating, writing etc)

Writing
* Weekend Recount
* Information Report - Jellyfish



Maths

• Multiplication

- Equal groups
- Rows of (also known as arrays)
- Groups of

• 2D Shapes

- Identifying and learning the attributes such as how many corners and sides.
- Identifying everyday shapes and objects and classifying them.

• Area

- Estimating and measuring, i.e. with blocks measure the shapes area.



 General Info

1. Tomorrow is our first K-2 Assembly which will be held at 1.35pm in the hall.
2. Please bring in Home Reading Logs (the small yellow books) so I can have a look at them.
3. Students should now all have their Mathletics username and password. Please keep this information in a safe spot and familiarise yourself with the website. Mathletics fee must be paid by end of this week (2 March 2012).
4. This Friday (2 March) is 'Clean Up School Day'. Students need to bring a pair or gloves to collect rubbish from the playground.
5. This Friday is the school BBQ and disco, so please come along and support the school (you should have received a note about this yesterday).

Extra Maths sheets yet to follow for those enthusiastic students!