Learning Community 3

Throughout the year we have asked our students to teach the class something new. We refer to this as the "Student In Charge" program. This gives everyone a chance to develop their leadership skills, practise public speaking and share their skills and interests with their peers. It is also a chance to 'walk in the shoes' of the teacher. 

Many students teach the class a new game, or add a twist to an old favourite game. Some have given a craft lesson or taught the class a dance. 

 Chantrea taught her class to play 'Jacks' using some stones from the yard. Everyone was amazed by Chantrea's skill and found the game quite challenging. We all practised using resilence as everyone had a try and gradually improved their own skills. 

Congratulations to all students for their positive attitude and response to this program. We got to see people in a new light, and appreciate the different skills and interests we have whilst at the same time, understanding what it is like to be the teacher. 

For Maths during Week 1 students focused on connecting familiar percentages to their decimal and fraction equivalents  and solving problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions. This week we have been multiplying and dividing decimals by exponents (indices) using estimation and rounding to check the reasonableness of our answers and multiplying and dividing decimals by whole numbers.

Reading last week centred on identifying the main idea, topic and theme of a text. This we we have been looking at Author's Purpose, moving beyond texts written to persuade, inform or entertain readers, to also discuss the types of texts that describe, explain, inquire, instruct, recount or are used to socialise.

In writing, students have been using emotive language, rhetorical questions, hyperboles, alliteration, facts and descriptive language to create persuasive writing pieces. This weeks writing sessions focused on drafting a defence for the actions of a traditional villain in common fairy tales. 

Last term we constructed our own graphic novels. It was  a great unit of work that we all really enjoyed and culminated in a sharing of work across the 3,4,5,6 co-hort. Here are some examples:  Annabelle-

Ava 

Cooper - 

Kasey -

Ryder Hansen- 

Tyson -