What's happening in Room 13?

 INQUIRY STUDY

From week 6, term 3, room 13 will undertake a study on the Delhi Commonwealth Games 2010.

ACTIVITIES AND TASKS

1.  Poetry Study
• Currently Room 13 is studying a range of poems. The poems will form a background od our Inquiry Study on Delhi Commonwealth Games 2010. 
• We have started with the writing of limericks in class. Thereafter the students will write a Haiku and other forms of poems. Students will collect all theitr written poems into a booklet after the completetion of the Inquiry Study.
2.  Explanations
• Students will come to uderstands the importance of writing explanations and why these are so important in making inferences, making meaning and understanding.
• students undertake a range of activities in class with regards to explanations by studying storuies and short prose on explanations.
3. Research Study
• Each student has selected a country for research study. The learning intentions and success criteria are set out on their sheet provided to them.
• the research study will explain more inddepth study of the country within the commonwealth
• this research is due on Friday at the end of week 9.
4. Spellathon
• The normal spelling activities have been put on hold for the next three weeks.
• New lists have been given to students which is linked to the schoolwide spellathon that is organised
• Please assist your children with sponsorship and testing them at home

ORAL LANGUAGE

_{Students are engaging in daily spoken language by speaking on sometghing of ineterest every morining in class. Please support your child to bring something extraordinary to class for discussion.}

_{SPEECH CONTEST}

_{All students presented a prepared speech in class this term. Many were of a high standard. The following students participated in the interclass contest:}

• _{Zac Bagnall}
• _{Samuel Oledan}
• _{Dawn Parker}
• _{Axel Lansang}

_{SCHOOL PERFORMANCE}

_{Some students from room 13 have been selected for the up and coming performance, Hercules, which will staged in the middle of September. The students selected are:}

• _{Hosanna Ball}
• _{Jessica Ashe}
• _{Hayden Pomare}
• _{Isaak Richards}
• _{Regan Pou}
• _{Brandon Best}

READING AND WRITING

READING ACTIVITIES

Students are currently engaged in dailyu reading tasks in class. They range from:

1. SRA
• This is an individualised programme in which each student is given a colour level according to their PM running record level
• Students complete a reading task in 45 minutes and then mark their work
• If they score 90% in two consecutive tests, they can then move up a new colour level
• This happens every Monday and Tuesday until the rest of the term
2.  SSR
• SSR is a silent sustained reading programme that happens every day in class.
• Students have been trained to read for a period of 10 minutes and write a response to what they have read
• After completing a book, the student will write a book review
3. CLOSE READING
• Each week students complete a short reading prose study for understanding and inferencing and then answer questions based on them.
• The prose study is based on the inquiry study, explanations and character education