WEEK 3-4

17TH OCTOBER - 28TH OCTOBER 2022

Annual Permission Forms 2023

2023 UPDATE - Thankyou to all the parents who have completed this task for the 2023 school year.

If you have not completed this task please do so ASAP.

At the start of every school year Wattleview Primary School collects information in relation to Annual Permission Forms. To make this process easier, this year we have put together a list of questions for you to answer on Compass under the tab - Insights.

• Log onto Compass

• Open in browser

• Click on Insights tab

• Click on Annual Permission Forms

• Answer questions

FOUNDATION NEWS

What a busy fortnight it has been with a huge focus on the production and rehearsals. We hope you enjoyed the show on Thursday evening. We had many nervous, but excited Foundie students and I'm sure you'd agree that they did a fantastic job!

In Literacy, students have started to finish their Jolly Phonics student books in class. There has been a large emphasis placed on letter formation and legible handwriting, as we continue to use our sound knowledge when blending and practising our tricky words. We have been making text to self connections when reading as a class and have started to develop our skills when drawing on personal experiences to make predictions. Last week, we explored the different foods that we have in our lunchboxes and to tie in with our inquiry topic, discussed where our food comes from.

In Maths, we compared and ordered collections of items based on quantity and we also learnt about faces, edges and vertices (corners) when building our own 3D shapes. This week, we have been looking at equal sharing and also explored the concept of 'chance' using language such as, 'will happen', 'won't happen', 'might happen', 'certain' and 'impossible'.

For Inquiry, we finished our mini unit on where our food comes from and have started to look at where materials come from to make the clothes that we wear. This is all leading up to our excursion to Chesterfield Farm on Monday 7th November. If you have not returned your child's permission form yet, please do so at your earliest convenience. If you require another form, please see your child's teacher.

As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to get in contact with either of us.

Kind Regards,

Nat & Andrew

GRADE 3/4 NEWS

Literacy:

We continue with our spelling and grammar concepts on a weekly basis. In Writing students produced a persuasive text and then edited their text to upscale its contents. Students also created an 8 page picture story book to help a younger person deal with a difficult situation, for example; being scared, getting lost or being bullied. Our Reading Comprehension for week 3 was finding important information in an online text and week 4 we have studied how to create literal questions from a text by finding important information. We also sorted fiction text features and non-fiction text features of a book and how knowing them can help us understand what we read.

Numeracy:

In weeks 3 and 4 students have been investigating…

· Patterns: Finding the rule to a counting pattern

· Algebra: Finding the value of an unknown quantity by using math machines.

· Capacity: How much a container can hold, usually liquid; Formal measurement is l = litres and ml = millilitres

Inquiry:

This term our inquiry unit is Civics & Citizenship. Students will be learning about the difference between rules and laws, and democracy.

Other:

Hats are required for term 4.

Buy your tickets for the production – ask your family, friends and neighbours too!

Icy poles – 50c

GRADE 5/6 NEWS

School Captains

Inquiry:

This term in Inquiry, we are still studying Economics. We are learning about trade-offs and how they affect the cost of goods and services. In our Economics unit, we will also learn about crucial things to understand, such as why we need to pay taxes, and why some goods cost as much as they do. I am very excited to learn more about this important topic that plays a huge role in every adult person’s life. I am very excited to learn more about money and its role in society this term.

Numeracy:

In Numeracy the past two weeks we have been focusing on Money and Financial Maths concepts. We learnt more about Australian coins and rounding to the nearest 5 cents. Grade 5/6 learnt more about percentages and how to work them out. Group 3 experienced life as an adult (nearly) in full, as they were part of a class community for the sessions. At the start of week four we had our post test, to see how much we have learnt over the last three weeks!

Literacy:

The past 2 weeks we have done poems, visualising and summarising. For poems, we have done a limerick poem and a shape poem, the limerick poems are a classic type of poems that most people like to write, the shape poem is a very unique poem which is more based on the art. For visualising we have had around 2-3 sessions on the tasks. We have had our teachers read us a poem about a place or thing. Us students have to draw or write down what we are thinking in our minds, after that we all have to walk around the class to see what our classmates have drawn. That's what we have learned in literacy these past couple weeks!

Homework:

So the past week in homework we’ve been doing the usual. Our daily reading, our spelling words for our Jolly group and then one of the maths tasks from our grid. So last week if we brought in our homework then we don’t have anything to do this week except for reading. We still have to read our personal reading book this week but I don’t think we have to record it in our homework books.

Specialist Captains

Performing Arts

All the students have been working really hard on the production and doing dress rehearsals. Dress rehearsals are doing a rehearsal with most of the props and all of the costumes. We have also been doing the final tweeks to each of the scenes. I don’t think anyone can believe our production is this Thursday! Everyone has worked so hard to make this so good. This includes teachers, students and our amazing community members who have helped make costumes, props and much more.

Environmental captains

Izzy L., Summer K.

The second week back, from holidays Summer and I announced the winners of Nude Food which were 5/6A they were rewarded with a lolly jar.

The yard has been looking really clean so just a reminder to go to the eating area if you have any rubbish.

House Captains

Touch Football

This term we have been learning a new sport called touch football. Touch football is a sport that is similar to rugby. The rules are watered down and there is no tackling. In touch football, once you run and get touched you put the ball down and lightly roll the ball through your legs. Once you have been touched seven times, the ball will be given to the opposing team. To get points, you need to score a try. To score a try, you need to place the ball down behind the cones on the opposite side of the field.

AV Report:

Over the past couple of weeks we have not been doing digital technology because we have had production practice taking priority. Hopefully classes will resume in the next fortnight.

Upcoming Events

Fairhills Basketball Cup Tournament-2nd of November 2022

This term Fairhills are holding a basketball tournament for our school for the players that have been chosen. Each player will get dropped off at Fairhills and will start playing their games for the day on Wednesday!

HOPEFULLY WATTLEVIEW WINS!!!