Hi all, and welcome to 2023. 

We have had a pretty good start to the year, welcoming the year 3's into our class and getting back into the swing of things. 

In Maths this term the year 3 and 4's are looking at place value while the year 5's have been working with factors, multiples and learning all about prime and square numbers.  Later in the term we will be working with fractions.

We are studying biology in Science this term and the class has been looking at living and non-living things, with the year 3's and 4's focusing on characteristics of living things, and determining why somethings are not living. The year 5's are looking at adaptations and evolution.

In English we are looking at parts of speech, and have done some creative work with verbs, adverbs and adjectives, and we are also playing around with and creating some poetry. So far we have looked at acrostic poems and haikus. 

Health has seen us looking at different emotions, what makes a good friend and inclusion and diversity. HASS has the year three's learning about the different states and territories of Australia, the year fours looking at sustainability and the year fives getting ready to move into studying how bushfires and floods change the environment around us. 

This year, the children are excited to be learning touch typing and basic computer skills, such as creating and saving documents and sending and receiving emails, amongst other things, in computing class. We are also looking at recycling and sustainability, along with the occasional cooking lesson every now and then. 

As mentioned above, it has been a great start to the year and I look forward to the upcoming year with the 3-5 class.