Exploring the land, sea, countries, space and our bodies.

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Hello and welcome back to the new term. I'm sure you enjoyed saying goodbye to your child on Monday. The children are slowly getting back into the routine. We welcomed our new student Aiko to the class as well!

This week our new Unit of Inquiry was introduced: Human exploration has positive and negative effects on people and the planet.

It is part of the transdisciplinary theme: Where we are in place and time. 

We looked at exploration in a few ways such as the hiking of Mt Everest by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, the importance of the Amazon rainforest to our planet, and the Great Barrier Reef. We had a little look into some older explorers like Marco Polo too. We also did an activity using cardinal directions and a map.

Today we were able to use the gym for PSPE so they definitely burnt off a lot of energy.







The children did revision of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and fractions this week, as well as some English grammar and reading comprehension. 

Many children aren't taking time on RAZ to summarise the book they read and give vocabulary that was used in the text. Please sit with them if you can to make them put more care into this. 

Next week in literacy week so we will be encouraging the students to read for 20 minutes at night to earn points for our class. The class that gets the most points at the end of the week wins a prize. 

On Friday they can dress up as a character from their favourite story. Please do not let them wear costumes from movies. 

Also, Mr Soydan wants the children to bring their jump ropes to school for PE on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Thank you!

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