Year Level News
Foundation
In Reading, we have been learning about responding to text using Sticky Note Strategies. The students have identified parts of the text that they find funny or surprising or a favourite part. We have explored this through superhero stories. We also taught the students about choosing ‘just right’ books using an acronym – ipick and the five-finger rule. Please see below for visual representations of these. We made bookmarks to help remind us about ways to choose books to keep in our book boxes.
Our writing lessons have had a narrative focus and the students designed their own superhero characters and described their appearance and attributes. It was fun thinking of an original superhero and giving them a name! The children also created a superhero setting and interesting ways to start a story such as using onomatopoeia. We are excited to begin drafting stories using our characters next week!
We have started learning about our community and have been discussing the people and places that are important in our local area.
Emma McIntosh & Jessica Dijanesic
Foundation Teachers
Year 1
Year 1 students are enjoying the new books that were purchased for our classroom libraries. We chose a variety of fiction and non-fiction books that reflect the
interests of our students.
Teresa Fountain and Karen Abrahams
Year 1 Teachers
Foundation - Year 2: Lunchtime Club
The Gardening Club was off to a great start, with many enthusiastic Foundation, Year 1 and Year 2 students attending. The students helped to dig, weed and water the plants currently growing in the garden beds.
The Gardening Club is held on Wednesday lunchtimes for the F-2 students. If anyone has any children's gardening gloves or hand shovels that they would like to donate to the school, we would greatly appreciate it, as we don't have enough for all of the interested students.
Effie Koklas-Liarakos
Year 2 Teacher, P-Y2 Lunchtime Club Coordinator
Year 3
Year 3 students recently had a fantastic time during their “Mad About Science” incursion. This hands-on experience was an engaging and fun adventure in learning.
The incursion included various experiments and demonstrations that sparked our young scientists’ curiosity and enthusiasm for science. Students made their own circuits using batteries, lights and fans converting electrical energy into light and kinetic energy. They use their scientific inquiry skills to predict, observe and explain how food colouring in warm water moved quicker than in cold water. They learnt about endothermic reactions with the vinegar/bicarbonate of soda experiment and about heat convection with the classic tea bag rocket demonstration.
By far the favourite demonstration was the ‘fireball’ that the instructor conducted, with students at a safe distance of course! An engaging and sizzling start to Science in term 4 for Year 3!
Amelia Delaney & Joshua Woollan
Year 3 Teachers
Year 5
Students in Year 5 have been working collaboratively to learn about -12 and -24 hr clocks, how to read bus and train timetables, and how to work out elapsed time. Some students have learnt a bit of Latin along the way!
Mrs Kah's group are planning a day trip to ArtVo in the Docklands, ensuring they catch the right train and tram. Mr Andrew's group are reading timetables to solve real-world word problems.
Surprisingly, many students have never been to the Docklands. So now would be a great time for parents to take their children to Harbour Town by train and tram for lunch, a movie, a game of glow golf or to visit ArtVo. Remember new experiences like this bring Mathematics to life.
Below are photos of students warming up their math brains by working out the difference between 2 numbers using cards. Just like finding the elapsed time it takes to get from one place to another.
Melissa Kah & Timothy Andrews
Year 5 Teachers