Classroom News 

Foundation

Hello Families,

The Foundation students have had an exciting week full of assemblies! On Thursday, we were fortunate enough to experience a smoking ceremony by Uncle Perry and we had our own Foundation and Grade 1 assembly. The children did an amazing job singing The Ants Go Marching and presenting our class value for this term, kindness. We've been reading storybooks about kindness, exploring what kindness looks like from others and how we can speak, act and think kindly at school. The children have done an amazing job demonstrating kindness. If these Foundation children ran the world, we'd be better for it! Well done to Lucas and Maverick for receiving awards this week. Have a wonderful weekend everyone. 

Year 1

Hi Families,

What a wonderful Week 3 we've had in Year 1! This week we began our new Inquiry unit, From Paddock to Plate. Our learning journey starts with seeds, seedlings and our garden bed. Over the coming weeks, we will plant our seedlings, care for them, and watch them grow while we grow our knowledge about how food is produced.

At the end of the term, we are hoping to harvest our vegetables and make a tasty salad together. We are all very excited to see our garden come to life and can't wait to share our learning with you along the way!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Terri 😊

Year 2

Hello Families,

We trust that you're all keeping warm during these chilly days! The Gruffalos were busy this week, launching off with our Inquiry unit - plants. We had so much fun planting seedlings both inside and outside, then many of the students joined  the Slime Club during the lunch break. We  watched the Welcome to Country ceremony and doubled up on our numbers in 'Maths with Marty!'  Finally, Congratulations to our award winners, Ada and Ada! We look forward to seeing our families at next week's Art Show, we'll have our sailboat projects on show. As always, thank you everyone for your wonderful support with our teaching-learning process.

Year 3/4 AL

Hello families, 

Students enthusiastically commenced our new Inquiry unit 'Born to Grow' by diving deep into what we know about cycles. Over the coming weeks we will explore metamorphosis, as well as the importance of bees and their lifecycle in our lives. 

For Inquiry, 3/4 AL and 3/4 T are learning about the lifecycles of creatures, plants, insects and different things that have lifecycles. Last year we had a butterfly as our class pet and every day we saw it grow, we wondered how it got its colours and wondered about so many other things. So this week we shared facts about what we already knew about the butterfly and other lifecycles. This term we are going to learn about the lifecycle of a bee. We will learn their lifecycle, how they live, why they live that way and where where they live. On Wednesday, we saw different types of bugs, insects and creatures in glass boxes. We saw the different stages of their lifecycles. The types of creatures we saw were: spiders, beetles, seahorses, frogs, cockroaches, bees and a lot of others.  We love to experience new things and we can't wait to explore more things about lifecycles. Tazlyn

In Inquiry this term we are learning about examples of life cycles. We are hoping to look at a life cycle of a butterfly. We already know that a butterfly starts as an egg, then grows to be a caterpillar, then a chrysalis, then a butterfly. Aiden and Liam

In Inquiry this term we started by drawing what we already knew about the life cycle of a butterfly. I know a butterfly begins as a caterpillar then it turns into a chrysalis. Once it is ready it turns into a butterfly. This usually takes 7 to 14 days. Celeste

Year 3/4 T

On Thursday the 30th of July 3/4 AL and 3/4 T went together to 3/4 AL's classroom to do Inquiry. We started our new Inquiry unit exploring life cycles and living things. We did out provocation stations, one with insect specimens and another stations with books about life cycles. It was interesting. I hope we can learn about the life cycles of tardigrades and sea cucumbers next!

By Rayzon

On Thursday the 30th of July, the 3/4 cohort started a new inquiry unit. The new unit is about Life Cycles and living things .To start our new unit we had a provocation stations. In the provocation station there was 2 stations, one had books and glass covered bugs and species for us to explore. There were many different creatures. I want to learn more about butterfly life cycles.

Madelyn 3/4T

On Thursday the 30th of July, the 3/4 AL and the 3/4 T joined together in 3/4 AL’s classroom to learn about our new Inquiry unit. Our new Inquiry unit is all about

provocation station, its about Life cycles and exploring living bugs and how they grow. There were 2 stations. One station is where people can see the bugs inside a glass box, but they died, and the other station was where we could look at some books about different animals/bugs' life cycle. After that, we wrote on a poster what bugs and plants go in a terrarium which has a little ecosystem. A terrarium is a jar for plants and little bugs can live and stay safe and healthy. 

By Sharlotte 3/4T

Ezra 3/4T

Year 5/6J

Hi Families,

This week in 5/6J students selected the reward to be able to visit the Preston Market for lunch. This was aligned with reaching 30 tokens in our token reward jar. Having reached it so early, it shows how well all students have settled into Term 3, and for displaying our chosen classroom value for this term, respect so consistently. 

Each time we reach 30 tokens, there will be a different reward, so I am looking forward to seeing what 5/6J decide next!

This was the major highlight of the week, as you can tell by all the lovely smiling faces!

Year 5/6M

Lawrence: The butterfly challenge as part of Inquiry was really fun. Many people had thought outside the box and it was really fun. My butterfly got eliminated during the fifth round. Where did I hide my butterfly? Well I hid my butterfly on James’ soccer ball picture. The reason why I think I got eliminated was because the shade of blue was too light and the sky on James’ soccer ball picture’s sky was much darker.  

Austin: The people couldn’t see my purple butterfly because it was against a purple background. We call this camouflage. I got to the ninth round but lost. I still had lots of fun and I loved that game. Afterwards, we moved my butterfly to a white wall where we can see it now. 

Callix and Keone: This week we had a fun inquiry session about camouflage and how animals need it to survive. Afterwards we had a really cool activity where we made butterflies and camouflaged them into other surfaces of the classroom. It was so much fun! I made a black butterfly to blend in with the bin and It worked! Kaone cheated though because he actually hid it in inbetween books which wasn’t allowed! Everyone had a really enjoyable time while learning and doing this activity. We really liked the session and hope for more like that to come!

Audrey: This week in Inquiry, we focused on animals that camouflage. The fun activity we did was that we got a printed outline of a butterfly and we camouflaged it somewhere around the room. For example, you would find the perfect place you wanted your butterfly to be, then you would colour it in and then put it in the area you originally thought it should be. Other students had to try and find the butterflies. It was a very fun activity and game to do. We learnt that animals or creatures camouflage to prevent either being eaten or to hunt their prey without being very obvious. Many kids hid their butterflies so well that it was so hard to find! Like someone hid a very good coloured butterfly on a scrap piece of paper in plain sight where no one bothered to look! Another example was someone colouring their butterfly fully black and sticking it on the black bin. It was so unnoticeable. At the start of this activity I thought that it would be easy but it actually turned out to be harder than I expected. And so many kids did such an amazing job of coloring their butterfly and then hiding it. Unfortunately we had to only hide it in plain sight so not in between books or behind stuff.  Even though it was just a game, we all learnt so much. Sadly I didnt get to compete in the game because I didnt finish my butterfly and then it was so hard to find a spot that my butterfly could actually blend in. 

Layla and Arvin: On Thursday, we all gathered in the multipurpose room to have a welcome back smoking ceremony. Marty welcomed Uncle Perry, who is an Aboriginal elder who explained to us about his family and culture. The whole school breathed in the eucalyptus smoke and we heard about Uncle Perry’s story. Uncle Perry’s family was from the beginning of the Yarra River. We walked through the smoke and Uncle Perry told us that it will heal us and we blew the smoke on us and it heals the whole SCHOOL!!!