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During Term 3 we are learning :

 __//**Inquiry:**//__ This term we are taking advantage of the Rugby World Cup to learn about culture as our inquiry. The students in Rivers base will be sharing their learning by putting together an international expo in week 9 and will be taking part in their own sporting tournament.

 __//**Maths**//__ this term continues on from the end of Term 2 with students interchanging and learning more about number e.g. place value, fractions, decimals and the ways to add and subtract numbers to solve problems.

In __//**Reading**//__ we will begin working together with our neighbouring class, Waiau, developing skills to participate in Literature Circles. Literacy Circles involves discussions on texts, with each student taking on a particular role for the day, Questioner, Summariser, Illustrator or Literacy Luminary (choose an important sentence/paragraph to discuss). Later in the term we will have another turn with the SRA reading programme.

 In **//__Writing__//** we will be looking at Persuasion. We will be studying and writing our own advertisements, speeches and letters. The class Speech Competition will be held on Thursday the 1 September and the School Competition on Wednesday 7 September. Every second week for 1 ½ hours, Tony Rzoska will be releasing me from teaching within the classroom. Tony will be focussing on poetry, with the students writing and sharing their own poems.

Our __//**arts**//__ programme will be largely integrated with our inquiry through dance, music and drama. In visual arts we will be working with fibre and fabric.