After a very relaxing holiday, we are all back to school! I have heard all the wonderful adventures and activities that the students had on the holidays, and shared some of mine as well.
Waste Free Mondays
Please remember that Monday's at Aubin Grove are Waste Free!! We will be recording our efforts this term and graphing them this term. Please send in recess and lunches that do not require any waste such as wrapping (fruit peels and cores are fine).
Library Wednesday
Reminder that Wednesday is our Library day. Please ensure that books and Library bags are brought in.
Homework and Spelling
There will be no Homework or Spelling words for Week 1. However, students should still be doing home reading and using Mathletics, Studyladder and Quickulations.
Some Dates for your Calendars
Week 2: Wednesday, 27 July: Japanese Incursion
Week 3: Friday, 5 August: Science Alive Incursion
Week 5: Wednesday, 17 August: Faction Jumps and Throws
Thursday, 18 August: Aboriginal Incursion (details to follow soon)
Friday, 19 August: Faction Carnival
Week 6: Thursday, 25 August: Year 3 Excursion to Perth (details to follow soon)
Week 7: School Photos (date for our class to be confirmed)
Week 10: Wednesday, 21 September: Open Night
Reading Comprehension Strategies
We have been looking at different Reading Comprehension Strategies in English. Last term we covered the ones below. As part of Homework, students are required to do at least 10 minutes reading. It would be great if you could use some of these comprehension strategies during home reading to help consolidate these.
Predicting:
Look at the cover and the title (or chapter title in chapter books). What do you think the book will be about?
Inferring:
Reading between the lines, trying to understand what the author was thinking. Ask questions such as 'why do you think the character did that?', 'what do you think they were thinking about then?', 'how do you think they feel?'
Clarifying and Monitoring:
Do they really understand what they just read? Do they understand what the text is talking about? Students can use strategies such as re-reading slowly, looking for clue, using vocabulary, reading on to gain understanding. Ask them to explain what they just read.
Connecting:
Connections can be made between the text and self, text to text and text to world. Ask students how they relate to the text? Are their any similarities between them and the characters? Does it remind them of another book they read? (same subject, similar characters, similar setting), Can they link the book to anything they know about the world?
Looking forward to another fabulous term in Room 24.
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