English
Grammar focus: dictionary skills
Spelling sound: long vowel sound ie y igh i_e (Apologies it was written wrong last week and in Home reading grid)
Genre writing: Narrative (setting the scene)
We will be looking at the details of describing the scene of a story.
Reading: Sentence cards & Vocabulary ladders
Mathematics
Mental strategy: Rainbow facts (Numbers that add up to 10, 100, 1000)
Mental routine focus: Place value (renaming numbers to 100 & 1000)
This week we will continue to look at Place Value up to 1000 (year 2) and 10 000 (year 3) and renaming numbers using number expanders
For example…
Inquiry
This week we begin our Science inquiry with the wonderful Simone from the library working with us on Thursday afternoons. It’s going to be fun.
Our big question is…
Does heat have the power to change everything?
This inquiry will delve deeply into the concepts of change and heat and using scientific inquiry skills
Mrs Waye will be absent (maths project) on Wednesday and Mrs Beth Tamm will be in the classroom.