Tuesday 13 September 2016

Hello from 2Green...Week 9 & 10

Literacy:
  • Our comprehension strategy is Monitoring. Children could practise this strategy at home after they have read their home readers!
  • We continue working hard on our handwriting and pencil grips.
  • Home readers will be sent home until Wednesday of week 10. The books should not be challenging and are used as reinforcement.
Numeracy:
  • Number patterns…counting in 2’s, 3's, 5’s and 10’s beginning at any number on the 200’s chart.
  • Time: revision of o'clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to.
  • Moving shapes- flipping, sliding and rotating




Religion
  • Healing relationships through reconciliation
  • Sacrament of Penance
Homework:  
  • Please note homework is now given out on Monday and is due back the following Monday. No homework in week 10!
  • Please encourage students to take pride in the presentation of their homework
Integrated Studies:
  • Begin looking at how paper planes move through the air.
Other messages:

  • Term 3 concludes: Friday, 16th September 2016.
  • Please begin collecting construction items for our Design and Technology unit in Term 4. Items needed include caps (milk bottle, soft drink bottle, etc), packaging in a range of sizes (shoe boxes, cereal boxes, toothpaste boxes, etc) and any general construction items. Please keep the size of boxes to shoe boxes or smaller.
Wishing everyone a safe and happy holiday.
Kind regards, Mrs. T.