Fun in Room Twenty One!

From the Teacher

As we only have a week and a day left of school, it has been our number one priority to fit in as much learning as possible! We have had a very busy and fast-paced term, so the upcoming holidays should be a nice break for the students. With that being said, there will be ‘holiday work’ posted on the blog for those who wish to continue retaining their learning over the break.

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! I have been tracking these through my own account, so it has been great to see students doing lots of reading at home as well as in class. Well done! Please make sure to read the entire text carefully before completing quizzes as this can bring down your own quiz pass rate and the class quiz pass rate.

Here we are using Literacy Pro in class:

Homework

Homework will commence next term. As for during the holidays, please see below for some ideas on ‘holiday work’.

Put spelling or Sitton words into simple and compound sentences
Read and spell Sitton words
Write sentences using nouns, verbs and adverbs
Keep a diary of everything you do during the holidays
Write a narrative about the Easter bunny or something else exciting
Write a persuasive text to convince your parents to let you do something you’ve been wanting to do!
Recite your times tables until you know them off by heart!
Write your own missing number sentences for you or your family to solve

Numero

This year students in Year Three can take part in ‘Numero Club’ during some lunch times with Mrs Lowther in the library. Numero Club is great for students who really enjoy the game or even if they would like to become better at it. Numero is an excellent card game to work on Mental Maths and problem solving skills. Here we are in class mentoring one another in the game:

Merit Awards

Congratulations to Anaya and Jaxon on receiving merit awards at our last senior assembly. Keep up the fabulous efforts!

Room 21 also won the Music award!

Drop Everything and Talk

In class we have been taking part of the whole-school strategy ‘Drop Everything and Talk’. This is 15 minutes one day a 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 Ella and Spencer. Well done! You can read their responses below.

Ella

Hi my name is Ella my class has done DEAT that means drop ever thing and talk!

I will tell you about Gymnastics.

In Gymnastics you can do tricks on bars and there is this floor that you can do tricks on and it is soft. There are ropes that you can climb and do tricks/stunts on. There are trampolines. My favourite part is using the ropes.

Spencer

Hi my name is Spencer and I will tell you about football. I play with my brothers and sometimes with my friends. I play for a team and it’s called Auskick! I like catching the ball and kicking goals through the poles at my house. My brothers don’t like it that much, but I really enjoy it. My favourite AFL team are the West Coast Eagles.

Harmony Day

We are buddies with Miss Baines' Pre-Primary class! We made Harmony Day bracelets together.