Welcome Back!

Welcome back to Wattle Grove Primary School.

I am very excited to see all the familiar faces from last year and a few new ones too! We have had a very successful start to the year and everyone has settled in nicely to the new class. It is nice to be in a different room this year with a great amount of shade from the trees. They say a change is as good as a holiday!

Numeracy

We have been practising our skills during our Numeracy Block. After a whole class lesson we break up into our groups and rotate through our activities. The activities are:

·       LESSON WORK, where we independently work on the concept we have just been learning
·       NUMBER FACTS, where we work on our multiplication, division, addition or subtraction facts.
·       GAMES, where we play games to reinforce our calculation strategies.
·       TEACHER, where a small group works with the teacher.

It has taken a little bit of time keeping the noise level down but we are getting there!

Literacy

Over the last 4 weeks, we have been focusing on writing persuasive texts. We have been concentrating on making sure each of our paragraphs has examples to back up our opinions. We have also been working on identifying persuasive devices such as emotive language, high modality words, fake statistics and a call to action.

​Homework

Homework will be marked as a class each Monday. Thank you to all the parents who have ensured this is completed each week. Each activity is linked to the learning the we have been exploring in class.