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Thursday, January 5, 2017

Term 2- week 1: January 3rd- 6th 2017

Happy New year! I hope that everyone enjoyed lots of family time on the holidays and also found some time for rest as well.

This week we began our new unit of Inquiry. We gave the students picture clues about our new subject, (energy and force) to let them work in groups to try and figure out what our new topic will be. They all had some very good guesses and eventually figured it out after a few extra hints.

Our Completed Inquiry board for previous Unit:

Happy Birthday Chandni!

In English we are learning about Non-Fiction texts and Explanation Sentences. Students are learning facts about different types of animals and writing their own sentences to describe what they have learned.

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Term 2,Week 1 2017



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English

This week we began with making some New Year’s resolutions and began our unit on explanation texts. Students found non-fiction explanation texts from the library and wrote sentences.

·         We will continue to work on explanation texts and non-fiction books. The students will identify the key features of non-fiction books such as the contents, glossary and index.

Maths

This week we used our recall of number bonds to solve more complex addition and subtraction sums. For example if 8 + 2 = 10, then 18 + ? = 20.

We also looked at counting the difference between two numbers on the number line.

·         Rehearse complements to multiples of 10;

·         find differences using a number line;

·         find change from coins and notes by counting up and using bonds to 10 and 20;

·         add two 2-digit numbers by counting on

Inquiry

We began by tuning into our theme ‘How the world works’ and the unit ‘People apply their understanding of forces and energy to invent and create.

We have been looking to see what the students already know when we use words such as forces and energy and tried to ask some questions which we can look to answering next week.

·         Finding out - creating questions to learn more or to develop our previous understanding further.

Notices and Events
--Sports Day January 21st

Thursday, January 5, 2017

Term 2- week 1: January 3rd- 6th 2017

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	This Week	Next Week
English	This week we began with making some New Year’s resolutions and began our unit on explanation texts. Students found non-fiction explanation texts from the library and wrote sentences.	· We will continue to work on explanation texts and non-fiction books. The students will identify the key features of non-fiction books such as the contents, glossary and index.
Maths	This week we used our recall of number bonds to solve more complex addition and subtraction sums. For example if 8 + 2 = 10, then 18 + ? = 20. We also looked at counting the difference between two numbers on the number line.	· Rehearse complements to multiples of 10; · find differences using a number line; · find change from coins and notes by counting up and using bonds to 10 and 20; · add two 2-digit numbers by counting on
Inquiry	We began by tuning into our theme ‘How the world works’ and the unit ‘People apply their understanding of forces and energy to invent and create. We have been looking to see what the students already know when we use words such as forces and energy and tried to ask some questions which we can look to answering next week.	· Finding out - creating questions to learn more or to develop our previous understanding further.
Notices and Events	--Sports Day January 21st