Welcome Back!

We have had a great start to Semester 2 and spent time this week getting back into our classroom routines and reconnecting with all our friends. We were all very excited to share our holiday news and I hope you all enjoyed reading and listening to your child's holiday recount on Seesaw.

As we start a new year - 2018, we made some "New Year Resolutions" on Seesaw. It was a great way for all the students to think about what they would like to achieve this year both in and out of school. You will have also seen these resolutions posted on Seesaw.

Happy to have time back in the library to get some more books after our holiday:

Maths

In maths we have been concentrating on place value and learning what makes up a number. We talked about the place value of ones, tens and hundreds and how we can make numbers using our base ten blocks. Then expanding those numbers eg: 32 = 30 + 2 and 32 = 3 tens and 2 ones.

Place value is the value of a digit depending on it's position in the number. Any number can be broken down by it's place value.

We also enjoyed counting by playing - Snakes and Ladders, word problems with play dough and skip counting songs.

Buddies

We reconnected with our G4 buddies and shared with them our holiday writing. We were very excited to see them and hear all about what they did over the holidays.

Unit of Inquiry

We have started a new unit this week and we are having a great time inquiring into "How We Express Ourselves - Light & Sound".

We had many tuning in activities this week which gave the students provocations to experiment and explore. There was a lot of prior knowledge shared from what was learnt in Kindergarten and now we will be building on that knowledge. We can't wait to delve deeper into this Unit and find out more about light and sound.

  

Have a great weekend everyone!