Thursday, February 11, 2016

Review & preview

English
This week we began to look at how  the theme of singing was developed in the novel.
Next week we will be looking at how several themes are developed and using quotes to support our points of view.
Maths
This week we solved addition and subtraction problems with numbers up to 2 decimal places. At the end of the week we moved onto tests of divisibility.
Next week we will develop our understanding of prime numbers, factors and square roots.

Art
This week we continued looking closely, using coloured pencils and shading to improve our drawing of Jupiter.
We will be doing Aboriginal dot painting as part of International week.
PSHE
We discussed what three things we can do and how we can do them to ensure we are kind towards others.
We shall continue our efforts to ensure we are as kind as  we can be.
Humanities
This week we have designed an advertisement focusing on colour, wording and placement of picture and wording to make it effective.
Next week we will review our advertisements against the success criteria and discuss how to improve them.
Science
This week began thinking about how we can present  information in a balanced way but favours one point of view.
We will develop our discussion that favours one point of view.
Notices and events 
Next week is International Week
We have PE on Monday.
We have Swimming on Tuesday.
We will have our Science trip on Wednesday.
We have Library on Thursday (remember to bring your books).
International Week activity day is on Friday.