Term 2, Week 4

Good morning OLC!

I hope you had a fantastic weekend, enjoying the weather and getting out and about. We are 'officially' back! I just wanted to say a big congratulations to you all for surviving the last 8 weeks and thank you for all of your support. 

Affirmation of the Week:

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

1.     LAPTOPS – An increasing number of students are needing to charge their laptops during the day. Can you please remind your child that they are required to come to school with a fully-charged laptop for the day…

2.    Home Learning – The Home Learning Grid will begin next week, however, your child will have some tasks to complete before Friday to get them back into the swing of things.

3.    MERIT AWARDS - Merit Awards will begin this week and as we are not allowed to have school assemblies, Mr. Lee and Mr. Torrese will be coming around to each of the classes to present the merit awards.

NUMERACY

The students will be investigating 2D shapes this week. They will be learning about polygons, quadrilaterals, triangles and circles.

After completing our second week of multiplication and division, it would beneficial for all children to practice multiplying by a one-digit number and more importantly two-digit numbers. Setting out a couple of problems at home will help your child master this important skill.

ENGLISH

We are currently drafting a persuasive piece on why children should learn to grow their own food. The students are focusing on their arguments and are using the ‘P.E.E.L technique to help them construct their paragraphs. We should be pretty close to editing by the end of the week, so watch this space.

STEM

This term’s unit of work is titled ‘Surviving in Tough Times’ from the Biological Sciences strand. The students have already looked at what an adaptation is and explored different types of root system adaptations. Over the next four weeks, we will investigate how different animals and trees have adapted to survive in Australian environments.

The students will then design and create a new species of bear that has adapted to survive in an Australian desert. They will create a diorama of its new environment and film a short video explaining how its adaptations have allowed it to survive.

It would be great if you could begin saving any recyclable materials that may be of use to complete the project.

Until next time, choose kind…

Mr Jones