Week 8

Hello Parents and Students,

This is what's on this week:

News Topic:
* Belonging to a group: Talk about a group you belong to. You may belong to a soccer team, swimming club or netball team. What do you do with your group? Why do you like belonging to this group?

Spelling
* Sounds this week are:

'sw', 'sk' and 'i-e' (bossy e continued)

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.      swim	11. skid	1.    bite
2.     swam	12. skip	2.   ride
3.     swap	13. skim	3.   hide
4.     sway	14. skill	4.   time
5.     swell	15. skull	5.   like
6.     swirl	16. skirt	6.   wide
7.     sweet	17. skate	7.   life
8.     sweep	18. sky	8.   nice
9.     swung	19. skinny	9.   shine
10. switch	20. sketch	10.  spine

 

Grammar
* Pronouns

 

A pronoun is a substitute for a noun (or noun phrase), such as, in English, the words it (substituting for the name of a certain object) and she (substituting for the name of a person).
Writing
* Weekend Recount
* Information Report - Emperor Penguins

Maths

Positional Language

- Describing the position of an object/thing.

- Using terms such as next to, beside, above, below, inside, outside, right, left and underneath etc

Division

- Solve word problems
- Record findings using drawing numerals, symbols and words etc

Data

- Interpreting Picture Graphs

- Using Tally Marks

- Completing graphs

Measurement

- Estimating Mass (weight)

- Hefting Objects

- Ordering Mass

GENERAL INFO
* Mufti Day this Friday (16th March 2012).

Please wear either Blue, White or Yellow and bring a gold coin donation to support the Humpty Dumpty Foundation.

* Please pay Mathletics fee a.s.a.p.