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Goals for Term 4

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We’ve had a busy and wonderful first week back at school. We’ve love catching up with our friends and classmates and listening to lots of great holiday stories.

Each student has set a new learning goal for our last term of the year.

Here’s our list of goals – we think if we work really hard we can achieve our goals. Check in at the end of term to see how we went.

James: I would like to get better at reading. I want to get better at Maths and working with numbers.

Ethan: I would like to improve my work! I would to like to work and not disturb others and finish all of my work.

Holly B: I would like to improve my work by making sure I finish it on time.

Liam Sm: I would like to improve my drawing and art work.

Aimee: I would like to  improve my handwriting because I don’t think my writing is really that neat.

Jackson: I would like people to stop interrupting me so I can get my work done.

Jack: I would like to my Maths and try my best to follow directions and be good in challenging tasks.

Tara: The thing that I might like to improve is writing a detailed story.

Jasmine: My goal is to get better at cursive because I barely know how to do it.

Riley: I wish that we could write more story maps because they really fun.

Soomin: My goal is to get better at times tables because it helps me for learning time. My second goal is to be more organised because my table is always messy!

Kai: I would like to not get distracted by others, improve my maths and read more challenging books.

Ava K: I would like to improve my maths and reading to someone for longer.

Tyla: I would like to my times tables. I would like to challenge myself by reading thicker novels.

Aiden: I want to improve Maths because we could do more fractions.

Ava M: I think I need to improve the amount of work I finish and how neatly I do it.

Jaime: The thing I have trouble with is times tables because it is hard and I have trouble with it. I’d like to learn some of my times tables.

Frank: I want to read more books and not get distracted.

Liam Sp: I would like to improve my spelling.

Julian: I want to make my writing neater because it isn’t that neat.

George: I would like to get better at reading and spelling.

Jessie: I would need to challenge myself more and work well with others. I need to get better at Maths.

Ben: I would like to get better at writing longer narrative stories.

Holly W: I would like to improve my storywriting skills – to write longer stories.

Arman: I want to improve my spelling and inquiry skills.

Spencer: I would like to get better at times tables because I only know some of them.

Good luck everyone with you goals – work hard and I’m sure you’ll improve in every area you’ve chosen.

Jaime and Holly’s Recorder Song

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We did a duet. The songs were called Green Jelly and Please  Pudding Hot. We did another song called Movie Buster. We did it in front of the class together. It was scary. We did it with music. First we practised then we came to the classroom and brang the stand and the cd player and our recorders and played  our songs. It was fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaL63Idbauo&feature=youtu.be

Middle Primary Choir

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Today James, Ethan, Holly B, Soomin and Ben (from our class) performed at the Middle Primary Choir Foyer Concert at the Festival Theatre. We have more students in the choir but they couldn’t make it to the performance today.

The choir sang a variety of songs – the boys sang some, the girls sang some and then they sang all together. The first song was a welcoming song in many languages from around the world. We’ve seen some of their songs at Assemblies during the term.

Ethan and Sienna were the compares and did a wonderful job introducing each item. James did some great beat boxing and Lucy sang a wonderful solo. The choir was really well received by the audience – there were SO many people who enjoyed watching the singing.

Mrs Rayner has done a wonderful job working with the children – a huge thank you to her. Also a big thank you to the parents who supported the children by bringing them to perform and staying as a part of our audience.

Students all received a certificate and a special treat as a thank you from Mrs Rayner.

Here’s a clip from their first song- The Welcome Song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udOrxS1LIAU&feature=youtu.be

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Tell Me a Story

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As a part of our Sharing Time topics that relate to our Inquiry unit we were asked to ‘tell a story’ to the class. It can be very challenging to tell a story – not read it or have a book with you for support. It showed just how brave the students were and so well organised.

We are learning about all the different ways stories can be told – like books, drawings, telling stories, performances, songs, plays, etc.

This we the class were so creative with their storytelling. We had such a variety of ideas presented.

We heard stories told through:

  • plays
  • puppet plays
  • home made puppets and theatres brought in
  • pictures glued in sequence to tell a story
  • apps used on iPad like Puppet Pals
  • plays told with trees and characters
  • Lego characters used
  • and so many more!!!!

Nearly all of the materials used were home made by the students and many stories were created by the students, which showed just how clever and creative they are!

Here’s photos from
Tell Me a Story on PhotoPeach

What did you think of our storytelling sessions?

Specialist Bloggers

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Each week we will be having 2 students blog about events that happen in our class. This is a great way for the students to be more involved in the class blog and share their learning and ideas. I know I’m looking forward to our students stepping up to the challenge and showing how amazing they are.

Stay tuned for their weekly posts.

Arrays and Multiplication

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In our Maths tasks we have been learning about arrays, multiplication and division through problem solving tasks.

Multiplication is a very important part of maths, and having a good “automatic recall” of times tables helps us with many different areas of maths.

During class time we have begun spending time practising different times tables and using multiplication in our problem solving.

We have also been working with arrays to help build our mathematical skills. An array is a set of objects arranged in rows and columns. Each row has the same number of objects, so they represent equal groups.  Arrays can make counting and calculating easier.

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Arrays are useful for skip counting and solving multiplication problems.

The array above has 3 rows of 4 blocks. That is 3 groups of 4, or 3 x 4.

We can find out how many blocks there are by skip counting by 4’s:  4, 8, 12 – or by doing repeated addition: 4 + 4 + 4 = 12.

There are 12 blocks. So, 3 x 4 = 12.

 

Here’s a site to help prastise your times tables.

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When do we use arrays in real life – can you give us an example of some? Where have you seen them in real life?

Which times tables would you like to improve?