Semester 2 Week 1

Dear Parents,

Welcome back! I hope that you all had a great time with family and friends and that you feel refreshed and ready for the Second Semester.

This week we covered the following work:

English

· Writing a Personal Narrative

· Exploring and Planning your Personal Narrative

· Writing your Personal Narrative

· Publishing Your Personal Narrative

Reading

· Long I

· High Frequency Words – give, good, her, little, try, was, fly, our, kite, like, she’ll, can’t, isn’t, doesn’t, didn’t, it’s, we’ve

· Cause and Effect

· Contractions

Math

· Lesson 9.1 – Equal Parts

· Lesson 9.2 – One Half

· Lesson 9.3 – One Fourth

· Lesson 9.4 – Fractions of a Set

Social Science

· We compared a town, city, suburb and neighborhood

· We looked at how a bridge can help a city as well as what transport goes over and under a bridge.

· Cause and Effect

· We looked inside a factory

Important Dates for next week

· Monday, 14 February – Valentines Day, Please dress your child in Red, pink or white.

· Monday, 14 February – Morris Gleitzman will be visiting us

· Wednesday, 16 February – Sports Day practice, please ensure that your child wears closed shoes that they can run in as we will be going to the track. Please ensure that your child has a water bottle.

· Thursday 17 February – Lantern Festival

· Friday, 18 February – Maths Chapter 9 Test

· Friday, 18 February – Spelling List 6 Test

Work for next week:

Spelling words – 18 February

Made, came, same, trade, ate, plate, pages, day, say, tray, play, Monday

Dictation:

On Monday I made a sandwich over the campfire and then I chopped it into fourths and ate it.

Words for sentences:

Camper, campfire, candle, care, catch, bounce, chilly, chop, claw, command

Regards,

Robyn Wood