Term+4+2011

Wecome to Room 3 Term 4 2011....... our key understanding for this term is a social science/technology one which investigates they way people interact with the environment, and the long and short impacts of this.

We are off to camp shortly, this ties in nicely with our visit to MOTAT - technology aspect, and Kelly Tarltons - Antarctica and wildlife. We have been doing lots of work in our guided reading groups and literacy around this.

Our focus for literacy this term is personal writing - using our own experiences to craft stories. We will be using all the wonderful poetic devices and features of language that we have been practising this year.

Maths focus is currently algebra, and we are having a big focus on problem solving as it has been identified as a need at this level.

We are using the books and art of Jeannie Baker - an Australian author/artist/environmentalist to help us deepen our knowledge of the key understanding and link it to our own world such as 'our special places'.

Maori is being linked in through Kaitianga - guardians of the environment.

Our assessment task will be to create a work of art that depicts 'our precious places' which will include Kaitianga, and present this with a piece of personal writing to compliment it.

PE focus is currently athletics and all those fabulous games you can play when the weather is so great! Soon we will also start swimming.