This week we started looking at what a special time we have ahead of us for the next 40 days during a time we recognise as Lent. During Lent we are asked to think about how we can make some changes to not only our own lives but to the lives of others. As a class we discussed the values of being just, respect and kindness. This will be a good challenge for all of us to be just, respectful and kind to all we meet during Lent.   We made a Lenten Resolution this week as part of this journey to dig deep and give up something that would be challenging, or work towards helping others in a way that may be hard.  It was a thought-provoking task and I am proud of how each student pondered about this, after we discussed it and shared ideas, then wrote our resolutions down. Naturally this ties in with the 4 R’s of classroom expectations.

In Maths, we have consolidated multiplication skills and are working each week on a different set of times tables.  This week Division has been the focus and we have approached it in many different ways.  Sharing is the key word, and we spent time doing the turn arounds of times tables to gain an understanding of what division means. Great effort from every student.  Lots of challenge activities also for those who need it!

In English, our focus has been exploring Prefixes in words and how they help us understand the meaning of words we read in different texts.  We have continued to build our writing skills up by looking at paragraphs and punctuation.  We have completed the 3^rd book of Deltora and some of the descriptive writing from this was amazing!  Great to see each student starting to piece ideas together and form opinions about different characters.  I am seeing so many students STEP UP this week.  Keep it up!