Literacy

Over the past couple of weeks 3/4 E have been learning about adding details to sentences to make them longer, and more interesting. They have also been learning about how to include possessive apostrophes. This week, as we head towards the end of winter, students wrote their own winter poems.

Three times each week we do literacy rotations. This involves students moving around four different activities in an hour: vocabulary extension, spelling or comprehension booklets, writer’s notebook, and buddy reading. At the end of the rotations, students move into small groups to read a shared book. Each group is led by a teacher or an aide. The books we are reading at the moment in the groups are: Nevermoor, Fantastic Mr Fox and Camel Rider.

Numeracy

In numeracy, students have been learning about fractions, how to represent them in shapes and on a number line. Grade four students have also been learning about equivalent fractions. Grade 3’s have been learning about four-digit numbers and comparing lengths in metres and centimetres. Grade 4’ students have been practising their 4’s and 8’s division facts. and converting between centimetres and millimetres, and metres and centimetres. The students have also been learning to tell the time.

HASS

The last part of our unit on traditional Indigenous Australian culture involved students researching information on the Australian Museum website and viewing videos on The Orb (an excellent online site for teaching students about Indigenous Tasmanians) about how indigenous Tasmanians traditionally made tools, canoes and huts. Next, we will move onto early explorers, life in England in the 1700’s, reasons for the transportation of convicts to Australia, the First Fleet, and European impact on Indigenous Australians.