What's Happening in our Classrooms

Prep

What’s Happening in Prep: Weeks 9, 10 and 11

What’s been happening in Prep

This week the Preps have put their Prime Minister hats on and thought about what changes in our country they would make if they were Prime Minister! From giving land back to the Indigenous communities to creating more jobs for people with no money, the Preps demonstrated high levels of empathy, creativity and kindness. This activity set us off into our Inquiry project in which the students are paper crafting their very own community. Stay tuned for the final product!

We enjoyed having our grandparents and special friends visit our classrooms. It was lovely seeing the Prep’s beaming with pride as they shared their workbooks and a special letter that they hand wrote to their grandparents.  

What will be happening over the next three weeks

Wellbeing

• Recognising our strengths 
• Identifying future goals

Phonics

• Revising open/ closed syllables, Super Hero ‘e’, /sh/ and /th/
• Identifying and using digraphs /ch/

Reading

• Making connections between texts and our own experiences
• Tuning into interesting words (adjectives) when reading
• Using punctuation to enhance fluency and expression when reading aloud

Writing

• Using interesting words (adjectives) in our writing
• Writing the sounds we hear in words to communicate ideas 
• Using memory words correctly in our writing
• Forming lower case letters correctly

Maths

• Using ordinal language 
• Understanding number patterns and connect number names, numerals and quantities
• Sorting and describing 3D objects

Inquiry

Big Question: How are we part of a community?

Over the next fortnight, students will be exploring the following lines of inquiry:

• What are the community essentials?
• What types of environments are important to a community?

Homework

Continue looking through Decoding Detective and Word Wizard book as well as take home readers.  Students are encouraged to participate in daily reading. If students record 100 nights of reading in their journal, they will enjoy a pizza party hosted by Mr. Tapp. Please encourage students to read the same book multiple times per week as this is valuable to their learning and assists with their fluency. Please note that reading pages from the Decoding Detective/ Word Wizard exercise book counts as a reading entry in the student journal. 

Optional: Mathletics and exploring the Prep-2 homework rubric located inside the students reading pouch. 

Reminders

Student Reports available via Compass, Monday 24th June

Last day of Term 2 - 2:30 pm finish, Friday 28th June

Year 1

What’s Happening in Year 1: Weeks 9, 10 and 11

What’s been happening 

We have been continuing our investigation into formal and informal units of measurement during Maths. We used balance scales to compare the mass of different objects and continued building our addition skills.  

In Literacy, we have been learning all about non-fiction texts including the difference between fact and opinion. We started creating our own non-fiction texts using what we’ve learnt about toys and transport in History. We also learnt a new diphthong - <ai> and <ay>. 

We loved dressing up for World Ocean and Environment Day and having our Grandparents and Special Friends come and visit us in the classroom.  

What will be happening over the next three weeks in Year 1 

Wellbeing 

Students will continue their emotional check-ins and reflection on emotions throughout the day, so students are more in tune with their feelings.  

Students will review their Term 2 learning goals and begin thinking about their Term 3 learning goals.

Literacy 

Literacy encompasses spelling, reading and writing. Over the following few weeks students will be focusing on:  

Spelling: We will continue our exploration of diphthongs. A diphthong is two vowel sounds that combine to make one vowel sound. We’ll specifically be looking at <au> and <aw> in Week 9 and will then consolidate our knowledge of everything we’ve learnt this term. 

Writing: Students will be focusing on creating a non-fiction text comparing their life to that of the grandparent they interviewed earlier in the term.  

Reading: We will be looking at and discussing the various features of a non-fiction text. Students will also look at Indigenous story-telling and exploring how stories are passed down through generations. They will also work on their reading fluency and comprehension strategies.

Maths 

Year 1 students will continue to look at measurement in the following weeks, including measuring capacity and time. Alternating lessons, students will begin investigating subtraction. 

Inquiry 

Students will being their final Inquiry unit project, record it on Seesaw and prepare to share it with their grandparent in Week 11. 

Homework 

Keep practicing spelling and reading the memory words that were sent home.  

Read every day to add to your 100 days of reading challenge and the Premier’s Reading Challenge. 

Additionally, students can choose a homework activity from the Prep - Year 2 homework rubric.  

Year 2

What’s Happening in Year 2: Weeks 9, 10 and 11

What’s been happening in Year 2

Over the past couple of weeks the Year 2 cohort have enjoyed working on their Inquiry projects, reading letters from their pen pals and welcoming in our Grandparents and Special Friends last week.

What will be happening over the next three weeks in Year 2

Over the next three weeks we will be celebrating our incredible learning that has taken place throughout the term. We will work on several projects that we look forward to sharing with you on Thursday in the last week of the term. The Year 2 cohort will be walking to Beaumaris North Primary School on Friday 21st June to meet our pen pals.

Wellbeing

Students will be focusing on their personal strengths and all that they have achieved throughout the term. 

Reading

The Year 2 students have loved working on their Reader’s Theatre and will continue to work on their Reader’s Theatre over the coming weeks. Students will also be identifying the different ways authors begin their stories.

Writing

Over the next three weeks the Year 2 cohort will continue to work on writing their own version of a Mr Men/ Little Miss story written by Roger Hargraves. We will be publishing our very own books and are looking forward to this! If your child has a copy of a Mr Men/ Little Miss story we would LOVE for them to bring in their copy (please ensure it is named).

Maths

Students will begin delving into the concept of mapping, in the classroom students will combine Literacy and Mathematics as they follow along with the story, “Are We There Yet?” by Alison Lester and will follow along the family's journey by creating a map.

Inquiry

Big Question: How and why do people connect to different places?   

Over the next fortnight, students will work on their inquiry project and continue to think about connections to special places in their community and how others may connect to different places.

Reminders

Walk to Beaumaris North Primary School- Friday 21st June 

On Friday 21st of June the Year 2 cohort will be walking to Beaumaris North Primary School to meet with our pen pals. The students have been writing to their pen pals for a number of hours and are looking forward to meeting their pen pals. We will leave Beaumaris Primary School in the morning and returning before recess. 

We will require two parent helpers per class to join us on our walk to and from Beaumaris North Primary School. Please find a link to sign up below. If you have already had the opportunity to volunteer your time on a previous excursion such as Moonlit Sanctuary or our walk to Long Hollow Heathlands we ask that you allow for someone else to sign up.  2R - volunteersignup.org/CKER3 

2H - volunteersignup.org/YHX8J 

2AW - volunteersignup.org/AK3D7 

2W - volunteersignup.org/D37LQ

Open afternoon 27th June 3pm-3.20pm 

On Thursday 27th June we would love to welcome the Year 2 parents and carers to celebrate several pieces of work that each student has been working on throughout the term. If you wish to attend, please arrive at your child’s classroom no earlier than 3pm. We will then have approximately 20 minutes to celebrate each child’s work and will need to kindly ask parents to please leave by 3.20pm so we can pack up for the end of the day.

Reading Rockets/ Take Home Readers

The Year 2 teachers have been so proud of the students who have been bringing in their reading pouch and reading diaries filled out each week. We have been keeping a close eye on reading diaries and have been keeping a tally of how often each student has been reading for throughout the week. The students are off to a great start! 

Library

Please find below the timetable of when your child will visit the BPS library. Please ensure that your child brings their library book each week on this day. Students should bring their library book to and from school in a library bag (this can be the navy-blue BPS one or another bag of your choice). 

If you wish to contact your child’s classroom teacher for any reason, please do so using the beau box. Beaumaris.ps@education.vic.gov.au 

Specialist classes

Year 3

What’s Happening in Year 3: Weeks 9, 10 and 11 

What’s been happening in Year 3

The students have all been extremely busy working on their historical narratives in the classroom. They all enjoyed their excursion to McCrae Homestead where they churned butter and completed chores that included washing clothes and sweeping stone floors. The students also played old-fashioned games such as skittles and quoits. It was a wonderful day.

What will be happening over the next three weeks in Year 3

Wellbeing

• Re-visiting the Zones of Regulation and our Class Norms to remind us about classroom expectations in Year 3.
• Strengthening our existing relationships and building a supportive and team environment within our classroom and in the yard.

Reading

• Focusing on reading narratives and highlighting the features of this genre.

Writing

• We are continuing to focus on ‘word choice’ as well as correct punctuation and using capital letters when writing historical narratives.

Maths

• Revising and revisiting subtraction strategies
• Revisiting angles, money problem solving as well as measurement worded problems.

Inquiry - History

Big Question: How and why has Australia changed over time?

During the next two weeks, the students will be researching facts to use when they draft their historical narratives.

Homework

Students are asked to continue to read every night and to complete Mathletics tasks set by classroom teachers. They also have the option to select an optional activity from the Homework Rubric. 

Reminders

Diaries are expected to come to school every day with reading recorded and ready to be checked by the teacher.

Year 4

What’s Happening in Year 4: Weeks 9, 10 and 11

What’s been happening in Year 4

Over the past two weeks, Year 4 students have been working hard in all areas of the curriculum. In Literacy, they have continued to explore paragraphs and how to organise their writing so that it is well thought out and makes sense. Students have also enjoyed listening to our class novel, ‘The New Kid’, and completing some activities about the characters, events and vocabulary. In Mathematics, students have continued to build their knowledge of addition and subtraction and are applying a variety of strategies to solve problems. They have also learnt how to use a Microsoft app called Flip and will be using this for future activities and projects. 

What will be happening over the next 3 weeks in Year 4

Wellbeing

• Exploring how fairy tales can influence our understanding of identity
• Being a respectful friend/classmate
• Creating a social story on one of the school values

Reading

• Whole class reading and building vocabulary 
• Focus on fluency through a range of whole, paired and independent activities
• Analysis of characters, settings and events in stories using the class novel “The New Kid”
• Silent reading personal choice book

Writing

• Analysing the story ‘Stuck’ by Oliver Jeffers and considering how he creates his own author’s voice
• Using a planning template to form single paragraphs
• Using embedded clauses to expand our ideas
• Correcting run-on sentences in writing

Maths

• Connection between addition and subtraction, and fact families
• Using a range of strategies to solve worded problems
• Exploring strategies for subtraction
• Identifying, classifying and naming angles

Inquiry

Big Question: How can we educate younger year levels on the importance of creating a safe, fair and happy environment for everyone?

We will be exploring:

• What shapes our identity?
• What gender norms exist in society?
• How do we form respectful and responsible relationships?
• How can we express ourselves?

Homework

Homework consists of 20 minutes reading a night, 3- 4 Mathletics tasks to reinforce the concepts being taught at school, and an optional choice board of activities to be completed at your family’s discretion. Diaries will be collected every Friday. Students also have personalised spelling lists on Literacy Planet (created in class) which they can use to practice spelling words at home if desired.

Reminders

• 28/06 - Take 3 environmental Science Trip to Ricketts Point
• 28/06 - Final day of Term 2, 2:30pm finish

Library Days:

• Monday – 4R 
• Thursday – 4B, 4L

Year 5

What’s Happening in Year 5: Weeks 9, 10 and 11

What will be happening for the remainder of Term 2 in Year 5

We would like to congratulate the Year 5 students on hosting the Grandparents and Special Friends Assembly last Friday. Joseph, Jack J and Audrey were confident hosts, and the Year 5 students shared some lovely memories, poems and jokes and sang beautifully. Well done!

Looking forward to the remainder of the term, the Year 5 students will continue to build their leadership skills in their SALTs on Friday afternoons. They will participate in the Mini Boss: Lead It incursion in Week 11. The incursion will further unpack different leadership qualities for the students to focus and improve on.

The winter interschool sport season will conclude this term. Just a reminder that there are no games in Week 10 (14/6) due to a bye. The final game will be played on 21st June. 

The students have been working hard on designing and building a house that can withstand a natural disaster. This project asks students to draw upon their learnings from the Geography Inquiry Unit to decide on structural features and building materials that will help their house survive their chosen natural disaster. 

Wellbeing

• Students will work on resilience, respect, relationships and responsibility. 

Literacy

• Students are practising reading fluency (accuracy, rate, prosody) through repeated oral strategies through information texts related to natural disasters in Australia and around the world
• Through study of our mentor text ‘Spark’ by Jackie French students will identify language choices that help move the text forward and aid comprehension of the reader
• Students will write using different sentence types (simple, compound and complex)
• Students will will use descriptive language to describe a setting
• Students will use literary devices from mentor texts to capture emotion
• Students will spell Words with Common Letter Patterns but different pronunciations
• Students will revise spelling patterns learnt this term

Maths

• Students will connect objects to their nets and build objects from their nets using spatial and geometric reasoning
• Students will use mathematical strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems
• Students will use problem solving strategies to solve worded problems
• Students will revise number and algebra concepts learnt this term
• Students will revise measurement and geometry concepts learnt this term

Inquiry: Geography

Students will design and create a house that can withstand a natural disaster

Big Question: How might we reduce the impacts of natural disasters? (human, environmental, economic)

Lines of Inquiry:

• How do the environments and culture of Europe, North America and Asia, compare to Australia? 
• What are the factors and how do they influence the way people adapt to the climatic conditions in these regions? (culture, technology) 
• What impact do we as humans have on the environmental features of places? 
• What can be learnt from traditional land management techniques? 
• How can the impact of natural disasters on people and places be reduced? 
• How do sudden geological changes or extreme weather conditions can affect Earth’s surface? 

Homework

Students are expected to be reading every night and completing assigned Mathletics activities over the fortnight. Please refer to the optional Year 5&6 Homework Rubric for additional tasks to choose from. 

Reminders

14th June Interschool Sport Bye

21st June Final Interschool Sport game v Sandringham Primary School

26th June Mini Boss: Lead It incursion

27th June Seaside District AFLW competition

28th June Final Day Term 2: 2:30pm dismissal

World Ocean and Environment Day Dress Up: Alice, Isla and Joaquina

Year 6

What’s Happening in Year 6: Week 9, 10 and 11

We had a lovely afternoon with our grandparents and special friends who joined us for a fun quiz after our assembly on Friday 8 June.  On Wednesday 4 June we were joined by the Upstanders from Courage to Care. We spent a great afternoon learning how we are influenced by society and how certain negative attitudes can lead to social exclusion, intolerance and injury. The Year 6’s have been busy auditioning for roles in the Term 3 production of Willy Wonka and we have been blown away by the talent we have in this cohort.

What will be happening over the next three weeks in Year 6

We will be working hard to finish our Inquiry projects over the remaining few weeks. Students have been working on comparing characteristics of Australia with a European country or an Asian country as well as beginning to plan/design a home to face various geographical challenges.

Wellbeing

• Students are continuing to focus on aspects of their learning touched on by the Courage to Care team. These include stereotypes and how negative attitudes lead to social exclusion, intolerance and injury.

Literacy

• Students are practising reading fluency and comprehension with a variety of text types focusing on natural disasters and community responses. We are going to be reading some scripts, helping students practise using tone and expression. 
• Students are focusing on writing structured paragraphs that include a topic sentence, supporting details and a conclusion. We will be using this to write a comparative text that draws on research completed in Geography. 
• Spelling – suffixes and Latin bases.

Maths

• Students will be continuing to revise multiplication and division strategies and applying these skills to problem solving tasks.
• Students will be developing an understanding of arithmetic, using formulas or rules and finding unknown values in numerical equations.

Inquiry

Big Question: How do people respond to the geographical challenges of their region?

Our focus for the next 2 weeks will be working on our end of topic project.

Homework

Students are expected to be reading every night and completing assigned Mathletics activities over the fortnight. Diaries with reading recorded will be checked weekly and Mathletics tasks should be completed by Friday June 28th. Students can refer to the optional Year 5&6 Homework Rubric for additional tasks to choose from. 

Reminders

14th June – Interschool Sports

20th June – Dolphin Research Institute Ambassadors Environmental Workshop Day

27th June - Seaside District Girls Footy Day Yrs 5 and 6

28th June – Last day of Term 2 2:30pm finish

Courage to Care Incursion