Term 2, Week 5

Good morning OLC!

Wow! There are some strong winds blowing on the capes at the moment. Take care out there.

Affirmation of the Week:

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

CONGRATULATIONS - Well done To Jake for receiving a merit award last week.

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 this week. It is very important that you and your child sit down at the start of the week and come up with a plan as to how they will complete it for Friday. Please ensure that your child is practising the times tables. There are links for each of the different tables on TEAMS – Numeracy channel

NUMERACY

The students will be tackling fractions over the next few weeks. We will be learning about fractions of a collection, comparing and ordering fractions, mixed numerals and improper fractions.

ENGLISH

We will be editing our persuasive text on why children should learn how to grow their own food. Once the students have completed their final copy, they will uploading it to their digital learning portfolio for you to read.

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