What is on in Term 3 in Team Kereru

Welcome Back

Term 3

I am thoroughly looking forward to this term.  We have a lot planned and are going to be trying out our new classroom layout, it certainly will take a while for everyone to get used to (me included).    I have been bargain hunting all holidays to get comfortable equipment.   I look forward to seeing how the children enjoy the new areas of our classroom.  Have a look on out blog for updates of how we position the furniture. 

We have skiing this term and speeches in week 2.  Speeches will be written in week 1 and practised over the weekend and in the first part of week 2.  They will be presented on Thursday 31^st July a timetable will go out closer to the time.

Our main inquiry topic this term is ‘Where does ………. come from?’  It is a technology topic that looks at where food, equipment and clothing comes from and the process it goes through.   We are starting by looking at mainly food ideas.   This is a really important concept for all of us to understand.

During our reading time I have included some science into our learning, this was something that our team identified as being a ‘passion’.  I am hoping to look at acids and bases and using litmus paper, salt crystals, growing seeds and making and testing a parachute.   I hope that this will encourage the children to think about the surroundings differently and maybe spark an interest that can be added onto during the years to come, science certainly is in a lot of jobs.    Our other ‘passion’ that our team identified was art and I hope to add more of this in, we are doing print making and 3D form this term. 

Our first topic in maths is Position and orientation, it looks at map reading, directions and compass reading.  We will then be working on addition and subtraction strategies during our numeracy time. 

Our writing topic is speeches and then instructional writing, during the term we will also look at scientific reports and how we can put what we are learning into a report. 

We have Fire wise during the first week and the Life Education Bus the last week of this term as well.

We have a big push on our reading this term, try and read every night.  I have included the reading log with the weekends as I know the weeks can be very busy, and in the weekends there is a little more time.  It would be great to aim for 5 out of 7 days.  

I wish all the farmers, all the best for Calving and Lambing.  May the weather be kind to us all!