2nd trimester Week 3-5

We hope to accomplish a great deal before the Christmas holidays, so it's going to be a busy 3 weeks!

Writing:
We are in the process of drafting and editing our non-chronological reports. We have gone over in detail how to write an introduction, and paragraphs for our book. Writing a catchy opening, including details and facts and adding a closing sentence.
Next week the children will begin to type up their reports on Word, creating a contents page, glossary and index. We hope to complete the whole process before the holidays.

Reading: The children have been reading in guided reading sessions with me in small groups. We have focused on reading and analysing non-fiction texts, looking for non-fictions features and adding extra features to the text. Thinking of appropriate headings to go with a text and labeling pictures were some of the activities the children worked on.
Next week we will move onto our next unit: Inferencing

Maths: In maths we have completed our unit on area and will be moving on to more addition and subtraction. The children will be learning how to add and subtract 2 and 3 digit numbers using a variety of methods.

Science: We will be finishing our Science unit on bones and joints this week. The children have learnt about the human skeleton, it's function and names. Joints, the types of joints and where to find certain joints is what we will be covering this week.

Social Studies: Next week, we will begin our Social studies unit on Beliefs.