Eyes on our Fingers!?

Isaac's big brother, Nathan, was in our classroom today, doing some work experience. He helped us with our work and it was fun!

Our Thinking Hats activity had us thinking about fingers and eyes. We had a discussion about what it would be like to have an eye ON our finger! We decided that there would be some amazing new and useful things we could do, but it would have its problems too!

This afternoon, we learned about the abbreviations we use for the states and territories of Australia. Abbreviations are a shorter way of writing (or saying) a word. We use these abbreviations in certain situations, such as when we're addressing an envelope, or when we're filling out a small map and there isn't room to write the complete names.

WA  - Western Australia

SA - South Australia

NT - Northern Territory

NSW - New South Wales

ACT - Australian Capital Territory

Qld - Queensland

Vic. - Victoria

Tas. - Tasmania

We discovered that the states and territories that have one word names are abbreviated by using some of the letters (usually the first few) of the word. The names with two or more words are abbreviated by using the first letter of each of the words. These ones are written in all capitals.

Love from The Smarties and Mrs N