Week 5

Things are chugging along in Room 5. The maths focus continues to be on fractions, ratios and proportions. All indications during these lessons are that the children are really enjoying this. Could just be all this talk about pizzas :). This week in reading I have been focusing on fluency and expression and completing running records with the children so I have evidence of their reading ages. In writing we have been publishing our "Spooky Story Starters". If you have a chance come and read these on our writing wall, I have been extremely pleased with the high standard of work your children have produced. Next week, writing moves to narrative, which will focus on a lot of fairy tales. If possible, try reading fairy tales at home with your children and discuss features with them such as the setting i.e: once upon a time in a beautiful palace......, and the problem eg:, the big bad wolf blowing down the house of sticks. Finally, our inquiry is rolling along focusing on France. Look for newsletters home with more information about this soon.

Week 4, Whoops

Hi everyone, been a bit slack with the updates. Three way conferences have conceluded, thank you to everyone who made it. Just to update whats going on in Room 5 at the moment, for writing we are looking at writing really interesting starts to stories that "hook" the reader in. In reading I will be doing running records with my reading groups to give me evidence of what their reading age is. maths continues with fractions and decimals. Finally, inquiry continues to look at the world cup and in particular our chosen country France. All your children have chosen some part of French culture to learn about and celebrate on our upcoming French day.
Thanks Mr Appleyard

Welcome back for Term 3

WOW, what a short, short break, or at least it seems that way. Great to see all the kids back, the attitude has been fanstastic. This term our big focus is on the world cup and we are all really looking forward to this. The focus for maths this term is fractions and ratios, I will confirm this but I am pretty sure this is the case. For writing we are currently focusing on recounts and everyone is doing a great job. If you have any questions come in and say hi.

Good luck for the term guys!!!