The weeks are definitely flying by this term. We have been busy at work constructing information reports as a practice for a more formal writing assessment. The students were given the choice of an animal, person, place and object. Once completed they will be provided feedback to ensure they get the best outcome in their next writing assessment at the end of the term. In our Media lessons we have been practicing creating iMovies on a book that they would love others to read. The book trailers have come a long way and the students are learning the skills to make some professional trailers that will hopefully hook readers in. Our Math lessons have been a focus now on place value with sorting numbers from smallest to largest, expanded notation, number line placement and rounding. There has been some healthy competition in our place value card game this past week with Max taking out the top spot on Wednesday with the most highest numbers created. Religion lessons are still about exploring superheroes of the bible with the students looking at Gideon and Samson. Who would have thought that glorious long hair could give you superpowers… Samson did. The students have learnt the hidden meaning behind these bible stories and are bringing the heroes to life using creative pop up art elements in their superhero book. The students have investigated shadows and how they work in conjunction with the sun and how they change during the daylight hours. We will be looking at how the Earth orbits the sun and the spinning motion of the Moon as well. Solar eclipses will be explored as well as lunar eclipse. Aboriginal astronomy will be another area we will explore as well which will link perfectly with our History unit this term. I want to thank all of the parents for all the effort you went to ensuring your children we organised for school photos and book week dress up. The events at school take time and effort from you as well as ourselves and we do appreciate all you do in ensuring your child’s schooling experience is as enjoyable as it can be. This past fortnight’s attendance has 17 of our students attending school 100% of the time. Great effort everyone considering some of the illnesses that are going around at the moment.