Welcome back! I hope everybody had a great holiday. In English we will be focusing on writing narratives and persuasive texts. As a continuation of the Read Write Inc program, we will be continuing The Big Write program. The Big Write helps students with their writing skills. We have a VCOP board in our room again this year which acts as a bit of a word wall. V=Vocabulary C= connectives O= openers and P=punctuation. Each letter comes with its own character. The VCOP Gang were created to provide students with a group of vibrant young characters they can relate to, use for guidance and to aid with their writing. 

During our HASS lessons this term, we will be learning about Vikings! We will investigate some Vikings such as Eric the Red and explore some of the countries that they originated and where they ended up.

In Science we will be beginning with biological science which includes living and non-living things, adaptations of plants and animals that help them to survive and we will be doing lots of research!

In Maths we will be using the stepping stones program to work through the curriculum. Students have Maths homework books to help support them also. Some of the questions may be too hard and I encourage students to do a maximum of 20 minutes homework each night and talk to me about where they are having issues.

I hope everyone has a fantastic start to the year and that the term runs smoothly.