Tuesday, 31 May 2016
Thursday, 26 May 2016
Student Led Workshops Week 4
How to surf, how to play netball, building Lego creations and how to look after the environment! All great workshops this week.
Monday, 16 May 2016
Sunday, 15 May 2016
Monday, 9 May 2016
Sunday, 8 May 2016
Student Led Workshops
The timetable is out and the link is above. This week we have biking, rugby, art, Clash of Clans and baking cookies. The workshops will be held every Friday afternoon 1:45pm - 2:50pm.
Tuesday, 3 May 2016
Totara Times – Term 2, Issue 7
Welcome back everyone. We hope you had a lovely break and are
feeling refreshed and energized! Term 2 and we are
humming! Our team is running like a well-oiled machine now and we
are some seriously top learners.
We have another busy term ahead of us with many exciting learning
opportunities!
Writing
We hope you enjoyed our boys and girls newspapers. We worked
really hard on them and were very proud to bring them home and show
you. This term we are focussing on narratives so don’t be surprised
if we are coming up with all sorts of stories at home. We will be
starting with character descriptions of people we know very
well. Very, very well!
Maths
In maths we are focussing on multiplication and division. We
will be developing our number knowledge around these concepts as well as
learning new strategies to solve problems involving both operations.
Reading
We are continuing to learn new reading strategies to gain deeper
understanding of what we read. In particular we will be focusing on being
reading detectives by locating and explaining inferences within different
texts. A small group of students in Michaela's reading class will be taking
part in Chapter Chat for the first 6 weeks of this term. They will be reading Charlotte's
Web and taking part in a twitter discussion every Friday at 10am. Feel free to
follow us on twitter @totara_team to see our awesome discussions!
Art
We have heaps of awesome art on display from Term 1 that we did with the
amazing art guru Trish! If you haven’t already, please come and
check it out in our learning space. People pay big money for quality
art like this!
Inquiry
Our focus for inquiry this term is ‘Create’ and that suits us great
because boy oh boy are we creative!
Trish will continue to inspire us with inspirational
art! Michaela will blow our minds when teaching us to do animation
in technology and Sven is going to take PE and we will be creating our own
games to teach our classmates.
Student Led Workshops
We have now finished our passion projects and this term we are now going
to teach our classmates the skills and knowledge we have learnt. We
have been given different time slots to present on Fridays and it is our
responsibility to know which weeks we need to be organised for. The
timetable will be posted on the blog when it is finalised.
Homework
Homework will now be given to us online on our own OneNote
notebooks. We can access this from school and home and the best part
is we can never forget our homework books….we just need to remember to do
it. Action English books will continue to come home on Monday and
come back to school on Fridays.
Technology
If your child brings an iPad to school could you please download the
Stop Motion app. This is a free app that we will be using in our technology
inquiry to create a narrative. Thanks!
Important Dates Term 2:
May 2 - 13: Dental Van here
May 13: Assembly
May 17: Bayfield School Cross-Country
May 18: Bayfield School Cross-Country (save day)
May 27: Assembly
June 6: Queen's Birthday
June 10: Assembly
June 24: Assembly
July 8: Last day of term...reports go home
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