Year 4R OLC

Week 10 already.  This term has flown! Thanks to all those that were able to make the Girl Power workshop last week.  I went along and found the information very useful....I will definitely be using this at home as well as in class!! This Wednesday is Grandparent day and thanks to those that have sent back their slips so we have numbers for catering.  If you haven't sent yours in yet and we will have a visitor Wednesday, please do so tomorrow (although even if you don't send in your attendance slip, please feel free to come along!!). Homework tonight is reading, mental maths unit 17 (day 1 and please make sure this comes back tomorrow as we will check through this in class) and times tables app.  There is no spelling today as we sat our end of term test this morning rather than our pretest. Spelling will come home tomorrow. Thanks for a great term!!

We have started a new unit of work on poetry, where we are investigating and exploring different types of poems as we work towards writing them for ourselves.  If you have any poems you love or that really appeal to you, please share them with your child and discuss why it appeals to you. In maths, we have finished fractions for the moment and are back on to multiplication.  We are practicing and learning new strategies to help us with the multiplication facts, so please work with your child to practice their times tables at home.  A competition on the times tables app is a great engaging place to start! Homework this week includes; Spelling Mental maths Reading - at least ten minutes per night then signed in your child's diary.  I set reading eggs tasks weekly which include comprehension, so please support your child to complete this. Times tables app - I have suggested that a good way to use this may be to challenge other people in the household to see who can score the highe

Tomorrow afternoon is the girl power workshop, to be held at school between 3:30 and 5:30.  From what I understand, this is a great workshop which helps equip our girls with strategies to manage friendships and empower themselves. Mr Torrese Wrote about this in last weeks newsletter and included a flyer.  Please use this link to find out more. http://www.ladyofcape.wa.edu.au/pdf/newsletters/newsletter_160616.pdf Please  remember to register for the workshop. Hope to see you there Sean McSevich

This week and for the remainder of the term, we are focusing on our organisational skills, specifically using our diaries.  I will be checking diaries each day, so please work with your child to ensure that their diary is checked each night then put straight into their bags. I have also noticed that there are a number of students without headphones.  These are important as they enable students to listen to and watch texts that we are studying in class.  They also provide a tool to minimise distraction of other students. I recommend that students leave headphones in their trays rather than taking them home so they do not get damaged.  If your child doesn't have headphones for use in class, please send some in. Homework this week includes; Spelling Mental maths Reading - at least ten minutes per night then signed in your child's diary.  I set reading eggs tasks weekly which include comprehension, so please support your child to complete this. Times tables app - I have sug

On Friday, we started work on a new social skill, Including Others. As a class we discussed clubs that we belong to and why it is important to feel as though we belong. This moved us into brainstorming and creating a Y-Chart so that we can recognise what including others is like. In bringing attention to this skill, we discussed and  role played situations, highlighting how we feel when we are not included.  We also discussed how words and actions can make people feel unwelcome, but at OLC we make everyone feel welcome.  We will be doing some more work in the coming weeks on this skill as we seek to embed this in our everyday living.