Specialists Wonga Weekly

STEM

Our focus this week is how important problem solving is within communities. How it can help improve efficiencies, support people with different needs and improve quality of life. Students will be presented with a problem that is impacting a fictional community. Using the design process, they will need to work as a team to help solve this problem and improve the outcomes for that community.  

Visual Arts

Prep

Students will experimenting with different types of lines, eg. zig zag, wavey, straight etc and begin to make a ‘Line Monster’ using pastels and watercolour paints.

Grade 1 and 2

Students will be tracing a rabbit shape onto their warm or cool coloured geometric shapes from last week. They will be thinking about ‘composition’ when collaging the grass, rabbit and other elements together.

Grade 3 and 4

Students will be continuing to paint their silo artwork. They will be using watercolour paints and watercolour pencils to add detail to their drawings.

Grade 5 

Students will be putting their finishing touches on their ‘Super Hero Self’ portrait, and tear their work (argh!) to lay on top of their printed photo.  

Grade 6

Students will begin a textiles unit using the dry felting technique. They will choose an Australian landscape and use wool to lay out their design and use the felting tool to blend the fibres onto the felt background.

Performing Arts

🎵 Prep

Students are further developing their learning on tempo (fast and slow) and pitch (high and low). They will be also be experiencing and categorising dynamics of music/sounds as soft or loud. Students will explore the sounds/music through listening and movement. Throughout all of their learning they will continue practising the skill of keeping the beat.

🎤 Grade 1 and 2

Students are continuing to explore rhythm patterns which can be made using 'ti-ti', 'taa' and 'zaa' through a variety of songs and movements. They will play rhythms using body percussion and percussion instruments. Students will begin to use these patterns to compose their own rhythms. They will also continue to practise 'Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes' in Woiwurrung (the language of the Wurundjeri people). They will be performing this at our special assembly for our RAP Launch on March 12. 

🎶 Grade 3 and 4

Students are continuing to use drama activities to explore the themes, characters and stories in two books. This week, students will begin on the second book. They will use movement and improvisation to explore what the two characters from the story enjoy doing together, and how the two characters might have a hard conversation with each other. Through the experiences, students will unpack the question; 'What does friendship mean?', linking to our CBL Big Idea of 'Community'. 

🎭 Grade 5 and 6

Students are continuing to explore physical theatre, focusing on how  they can use their bodies, gestures and movements to communicate to an audience. Students will apply their learning from the term so far to begin to create a short physical theatre piece in small groups. They will be asked to apply other elements of drama, such as relationships, focus and space, to realise their piece. 

Auslan

Prep

Prep students will be participating in songs and role plays to learn how to sign ‘Good morning, how are you?’ and respond to that question with the signs: good; bad; happy; sad and tired.

Grade 1 and 2

Students will continue to review the signs for common items found in and around their classroom. They will also learn to ask their peers for specific objects by learning to sign the phrase, ‘Can I have…, please?’

Grade 3 and 4

Students will continue to learn and rehearse signing common phrases used in the classroom. They will play whole class and small group games to consolidate this understanding.

Grade 5 and 6

Students will review their understanding of frequently asked questions within the classroom. They will practise signing these common phrases by playing recognition games.