From the Teacher Term 1 Week 3

 From the Teacher

The start of the school year has definitely been a busy one. We have been working very hard in our new room (Room 21). This term is obviously now a shorter one, so we will be working twice as hard to learn as much as possible in our first term of Year 3. 

Thank you to everyone in Room 21 for dressing up for Aussie Day! Unfortunately, my 'Australia' shirt didn't quite fit over the baby bump this year! You all looked amazing!

Literacy Pro

This year the students have started to work on Literacy Pro (which we are very excited about) to promote reading, as well as reading comprehension. Our goal is to have the most words read out of all of the classes that take part in Literacy Pro!

Homework

Homework will not be posted to the blog yet. Homework sheets will be sent home with the students for now. This may change in the future. I strongly recommend students complete some of their homework each night, as they are now Year Three the workload does begin to intensify. It is important that students keep up to date and take responsibility of their own learning.

Spelling words will be posted to the blog for students to copy into their Homework books at home.

Senior Assembly

As you may already be aware, being in Year Three, we now take part in Senior Assemblies. The first assembly will be held Friday 5^th March.

Student Councillors

Congratulations to Anaya and Kairav on being selected as Semester 1 Student Councillors! I am certain they will do a magnificent job.

Drop Everything and Talk

In class we have been taking part in the whole-school strategy of ‘Drop Everything and Talk’. This is for15 minutes during the week where the students are given a topic to talk about in their groups. They then come to a consensus as to who spoke about the topic the best. The winner then writes up what they spoke about and it is posted to the blog.

This week the students selected were Veera and Kairav. Well done! You can read Veera and Kairav’s responses below on the topic: Describe a story or book that you have enjoyed reading or listening to more than once and what made it special.

Veera:

Hi my name is Veera and I am going to write a review on the book ‘Sisters’.

I like this book because it makes me calm down, even though I have read it 40 times! It has a character called Raina, she is the big sister and Amanda is the middle sister. Raina Telegram is the author of this book and she is the illustrator as well.

2 reasons I think it is special:

•     you can read it to a sibling
•     it has a lot of funny scripts

Kairav:

 Hi my name is Kairav. I am going to write a review on the book 'Minecraft'. I like this book because it is full information and it is funny. It tells all about Minecraft and it has cool pictures! Thank you.

 

Students speaking about the 'Drop Everything and Talk' topic.