Classroom News
Foundation
We’ve had another wonderful week in Foundation! In Maths, we’ve been developing our understanding of numbers by exploring how they can be broken up in different ways (partitioning). The children have loved using a variety of hands-on materials such as five and ten frames, counters, dominoes, and dice to support their learning.
In the photos below, you’ll see the children investigating how many different ways they can make 10, as well as discussing the different parts that combine to form this number. We also practised recalling number combinations that make 10. These activities are helping to build strong number sense, providing an important foundation for the children’s future understanding and manipulation of numbers. We hope you have a beautiful weekend with friends and family and we'll see you in Week 3!
Some building creations as well...
Year 1
Hey everyone,
We have had another wonderful week of learning! It was so lovely to spend time in the library today, we are very lucky to have Prem, our kind and friendly librarian. Featured below is a photo of the children enjoying their time in the library.
I would also like to thank families for bringing in items from home for our Inquiry unit. This will be incredibly helpful as we continue our learning later in the term, thank you so much for your support.
Have a great weekend!
😊Terri
Year 2
Hello Families,
We are made a lot of memories this past week celebrating fun times. Birthday wishes go to Kerthly and Max, and congratulations to Jaimee and Elena for their awards. We continued our studies (Inquiry) learning about the properties of materials and beginning our unit in recyling. (Math) The class are doing well understanding place value to the thousands and in (Religion and Well Being) making good choices each day. Ahead, we look forward to Yichen's birthday next week, and we will go on an excursion May 12th, that focuses on ''Zero Waste''
Year 3/4 T & Year 3/4AL
It has been an interesting week exploring how literacy devices are used in Poetry and attempting to incorporate what we have learned into our own writing. Using 'The Eagle' by Lord Tennyson as inspiration, students explored alliteration, rhythm and rhyme and how stanzas are used in poems. They attempted to write stanzas of 3 lines each and as an extra challenge, include a simile to describe their animal.
Monkeys
Monkeys are super fun,
Monkeys are fast when they run,
Monkeys like running in the sun.
They climb trees easy,
Monkeys are lazy,
Bananas make them go crazy!
By Yaseen
The Shima-Enaga
The bird is really white, it is small in height,
Really warm in the darkest night,
They will be active when it's light.
The bird is definitely fluffy,
It may be honestly puffy,
It is certainly, genuinely stuffy.
By Jazlyn
The Dingo
He is marigold and brown,
He is shiny like a crown,
He hunts when the sun goes down.
He sniffs with his black nose,
You should never go close,
He will hunt you, I suppose.
By Tazlyn
Year 5/6 J
In Inquiry this week, students have begun to unpack and think about what they buy, use and comsume in their daily lives. They showed their thinking by making some awesome posters! Check some of them out below.
In addition, we also began to look at and investigate where our clothes come from before they reach the shops. It has been great to see students so inquisitive and interested in these topics!
Year 5/6 M
In R.E. this term, students are learning about saints. A saint is a special friend of God who lived a holy life and now lives with God in heaven. The Church calls some holy people, “saints.” The Church wants us to know their stories because saints did everything for God. Saints are heroes of our faith.
Martin: I would like to learn more about saints, especially why they are saints.
Viraj: I would like to learn more about saints and how they contributed to Christianity. I also want to know when St Peter died.
Callix: I find saints very intriguing and I want to learn more about them, especially what saints were like when they were alive.
Brayden: Who was the first saint and where did he/she come from?
Arvin: Were any of the saints alive when they became saints?
Layla: I am going to love learning about saints. I already found out a lot that I didn’t know when we watched a video on saints.
Katalina: Saints are very interesting people. I never knew that an ordinary person could become a religious deity.
Lawrence: I would like to know why we have saints.
Shamus: I would like to find out more about saints. It will give me a clearer picture of what it’s like to be one.