Today our Math focus lesson and rotations revolved around length. We discussed personal referents. 4F discovered that often our little finger is about 1cm wide so is a suitable personal referent when estimating in centimetres. When estimating in metres we used our strides and stepped it out. There was lots of hands on estimating and measuring today! 

Congratulations to Aiden who is the 4F Star of the Week. Aiden is achieving great results in Maths and always seeks feedback to improve his learning.  Amazingly awesome Aiden! Yes we have also started our Poetry Unit and have been looking at poetic devices and structual features of poetry including alliteration.

Congratulations to Violet who is the Star of the Week for Week 7.  Violet is a keen participant in class discussions and always follows our class rules.

Our swimming day will now be on Friday for the next 3 weeks, followed by the swimming carnival in Week 9.  We will travel to the pool at noon, (commencing this Friday) and return by 1.15pm in time for 2nd break.

Congratulations to Wardie who is the 4F Star of the Week for Week 5. Wardie always strives for personal excellence in the classroom. He also received some great comments from other teachers this week while in the playground and at swimming. Well done Wardie!

Fraction Bucket Game

We had fun during our numeracy session playing the Fraction Bucket game. Students worked hard to identify which fractions were less than one half, equal to  one half, equal to one or great than one. 

Spelling word chains

Well done to those students who brought in their spelling word chains as part of their homework. They look great in our classroom. What a fun way to learn our spelling words!

The students were very excited to finally get their hands on some paint today! Our art unit this semester is focused around Eric Carle and his style of art. Today we spent the afternoon creating 'background' paintings. Students had fun experimenting with household items to create texture in their paint.

Literacy

Just wanted to share some photos from today.

We had some more impressive sketches of Mr and Mrs Twit...

Our spelling activity today was matching our spelling words ('ch' and 'tch') with a definition. 

Some students used whiteboards to write their answers. 

SWIMMING

Just a final reminder that swimming fees must be paid by tomorrow (Thursday 26th February) or your child will be unable to swim.  If you have contacted the office and organised a payment plan that is fine - your child will be able to swim.  Remember your child needs: swimmer, rashee or t-shirt, hair tie or swimming cap for long hair, and goggles (optional).  As we leave for the pool just after 11am we suggest that students do not order tuckshop for first break.  Thanks :)