Week 21

Dear Parents and Students,

I trust everyone enjoyed the Lunar New Year break. Of course, the current situation regarding the coronavirus has cast a more solemn mood over the holiday period, but it seems everyone has had a good vacation regardless. Thank you to those of you who travelled overseas and have taken precautions by staying home these past two days. Your concern for others is greatly appreciated, and we look forward to welcoming everyone back, fit and healthy, on Monday.

In the Classroom:

Maths

We began Topic 11, in which we learned how to add and subtract fractions with like and unlike denominators. For those of you who have stayed home this week, links to pages from the text book can be found on previous posts on this blog, as well as via Google Classroom. We will also spend some time revising the topic early next week, before sitting the topic test on Wednesday.

Literacy Workshop

We have just finished unit 4 in Grammar, and the unit checkup, test practice, and cumulative review are all due for completion next Friday.  We have begun planning and drafting our Book Promotion project, starting with the drafting of our synopses. We will continue with this next week.

Science

We have been reviewing what we have been learning about force and motion. We will do one more practical activity next week before turning our attention to electrical energy.

Social Studies

We have just begun our study of early people in the American Southeast, and we will continue our investigations next week.

As you will know from the regular updates from Mrs Lines, we are all being vigilant in our efforts to stay healthy at school. I hope everyone enjoys the weekend, and that we are all healthy and ready for our first week of Semester 2! See you all Monday!

Dates to remember:

Fri.                  Feb 14:            Valentines Day

Mon.               Feb 17:            Clubs start

Feb 17 – Feb 21:                     Literacy Week