Week 6

Dear Parents,

Spirit week added an extra exciting dimension to our week this week.

This week we covered the following work:

English

· Writing a Description

· What Makes a Great Description?

· Using Your Senses

· Topic Sentences

Reading

· That Looks Like Fun! – Sounds for oo as in book

· A Good Cook – Sounds for oo as in book

· Help Bear Find the Way – Compound Words

· Who Was Lost? – Comprehension Check

· Where Are We? – Comprehensions, Sequence of Events

· The Vowel Sound in book – Spelling

· Many Meanings – Vocabulary, Multiple Meaning Words

· Name It! – Grammar, Proper Nouns for Places and Things

· Words to Know – afraid, any, bear, follow, most, tall, water, idea, look, good, books, someone, anything, inside, outside

· We read: Lost!

Maths

Lesson 13.1 – Order Events

Lesson 13.2 – Estimate a Minute

Lesson 13.3 – Hour

Lesson 13.4 – Half-hour

Lesson 13.5 – Elapsed Time

Lesson 13.6 – Practice Telling Time

Science – Looking at Our Earth

· Vocabulary – natural resource, mineral, soil, humus

· Water Resources

· Land and Air Resources

· Comparing Rocks and Minerals

Work for next week:

Spelling words – Test 25 March:

After, camper, shower, over, mother, father, hurt, burn, turn, furry, hurry, person

Words for Sentences:

Pitcher, pottery, really, report, rescue, sandbox, scar, scissors

Dictation:

After I played in the sandbox, I took a quick shower and then my mother poured me some sour lemonade out of the colorful pitcher.

Important dates for this week:

· 22 March - Music Treasure Hunt. For more information please visit Ms Fay’s blog at http://his-musicclass.blogspot.com/

· 24 March – Present Forest, Desert or Ocean poster. If you would like me to send your child’s poster home for them to practice with it, please can you e-mail (wood.his@gmail.com)

· 25 March – Spelling Test

· 25 March – Math Test

· 1 -10 April – Spring Break

· 13 April – Pottery Day

Sports Day

Sports Day was cancelled for the following reasons:

1. Fear of radiation

2. The weather

3. There are a number of teachers and students who are sick.

Sports Day will be held at a later date.
Thank you for all the trouble and your support.

Spirit Week

Thank you for all the effort that you put into helping your child dress up each day, there was great excitement each morning, when the children compared outfits. There were six children who dressed up everyday. Hopefully next year the whole class will dress up everyday.

I am sure that you all received the e-mail on Friday from Ms Lines. Mrs Lines and Ms ShuFen are unable to be at school due to family issues. During this period Mr Clint Harris will move into an administrative role in the elementary office, alongside Ms. Debbie. Mr. Lines will be in when he is not at the hospital. The school has already contacted a substitute PE teacher so your child will continue to have PE and Computers. If you have any questions please feel free to ask Mr Harris, Ms Debbie or myself.

Regards,

Robyn Wood