Using your group names to post a comment, make a comment listing as many examples of words that use the spelling rules for adding 's' and 'es' to words. The HELPFUL HINTS are on page 86 of your Sound Waves 5 books
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Welcome back to Term 2! Wow, what a busy first week. Here is a quick run down of what has been going on in Room 14. We have continued our preparations for the NAPLAN tests in week 4 by writing more narratives and learning about 3D shapes and their nets. On Thursday afternoon, we had Jarron from Tennis West to take the class in a tennis skills workshop. On Friday the School had it's ANZAC ceremony, which was followed up with some great discussions about the ANZAC spirit and the class all made ANZAC cookies, helped out by Mrs Wright. In your microsoft word document do the following steps to cherck your word count form your narrative.
1. Hold down 'Control(Ctrl) and press the 'a' key to highlight all text. 2. Click on the 'Review' tab and click on word count. 3. Paste your name and your word count that you got to after 35 minutes of the lesson. We have begun learning what molecules are and how the behave in the three states of matter. We learned a hand movement to help remember the propertirs of each. After such a full on couple of weeks it's time for some light relief.
Post an appropriate joke to share with the class. Over the this cyclone long weekend, 'Cyclone Skoolbo Superstars' will be awarded.
Good luck and stay safe. We have been learning a number of strategies to multiply large numbers without a calculator. Different methods work best for different students so the idea is to find which one works best for you and get to know how that method can help you accurately solve problems. Watch these videos to revise each method. Leave a comment to share which strategy you prefer and why. Multiplication strategies we have looked at include:
LONG MULTIPLICATION & LATTICE MULTIPLICATION |
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