Striving for more in EY4

Well, Me Hearty’s – third term is crossing the finish line and we’re walking the plank into spring break! In science this semester we are exploring the sky and the land. This time of the year, as daylight hours increase and the season brings new growth, is an exciting time to notice how the earth is waking up after its winter nap. There have been lots of opportunities to watch cloud formations respond to wind patterns as we bring out a kite to fly at play time – it is much harder to keep it in the air than it looks but we still have fun chasing it. Miss Rachel and Miss Nairda helped us to trace our shadows, and we will do this again at a different time of day to observe how they change with the movement of the sun.

We have learnt a lot about taking turns and waiting for the goal space to be clear before kicking with Coach Tim each Tuesday morning and laughed our way through the Bubble Man’s visit.

In literacy we have tried reading short texts to each other in pairs with an adult supervising. This helps us to practice pausing at full stops and commas and exposes us to public speaking. We have added a lot of new words to our reading lists and practice blending sounds together every day. Midterm we were learning words that started with th, sh and ch and have ended the term exploring the two sounds of “oo” – long “oo” as in moon and short “oo’’ as in look, as well as the sound of “ee”. We will start term 4 with a review of sounds we have learnt before moving on to the next one in the sequence of learning.

Patterns remain our Math focus this semester and Miss Rachel has been showing us patterns in number by introducing skip counting by 2. We continue to experiment with number and quantity because it is so easy to count the same item more than once! Some of us like to line things up in a row and others find that moving an item to the side tells us that we have already counted it. Another thing we are learning and practicing how to do is to check our work to see if the answer is the same.

Take care of you and yours.

Until next time

Miss Jodie, Miss Rachel, Miss Nairda and students of EY4.