Specialists Wonga Weekly

Physical Education

Prep PE

This week, students will participate in a range of activities aimed at reviewing essential skills taught throughout the year. The goal is to foster teamwork and create an enjoyable learning experience for all.

Prep Sensory

In this week's Sensory Gym session, participants can look forward to a mix of activities and exercises designed to boost their fine-motor control, balance, and core strength.

Grade 1 and 2

Several activities will be offered to students this week, with a focus on revising the key fundamental movement skills taught throughout the year. Students will be encouraged to reflect on strategies which enable effective teamwork.

Grade 3 and 4

In this week's session, we will wrap up our Teeball focus with a modified game. Students will be prompted to strategically hit the ball away from fielders while batting and to be mindful of their positioning during fielding.

Grade 5 and 6

During this week's session, we will conclude our Teeball focus with a modified game. Students will be encouraged to purposefully strike the ball away from fielders while batting, pay attention to their positioning during fielding, and make thoughtful decisions about which base to throw to.

Visual Art

Prep

Students will be decorating a bonbonniere box to be gifted to their grade 6 buddy at Graduation. It will include all things sparkly and shiny!

Grade 1 and 2

Last week students ended up finishing off some work in progress from the term, so this week students will be adding two contrasting colours to their Nutcrackers drawings., focussing on keeping in the lines and choosing colours that work well together. 

Grade 3 and 4

Students will be participating in a guided drawing of Santa, focussing on soft pencil sketching, adding pattern, and outlining in sharpie.

Grade 5 

This week students will add any finishing touches to their Picasso masks, including a layer of pattern and attaching accessories with wire. 

Grade 6

Students will be making a radial designed Christmas ornament using tin paper. They will emboss their design and then use sharpies to add colour.

Science

Our plant growing experiment has been delivering some surprising results. We have tested watering with different liquids, planting in different soils (Or no soil at all) and changing the amount of sun our plants get. We had some big bean plants growing in certain conditions and no growth in others. We will continue to record our observations at the start of classes. 

Our Science experiment this week is understanding how non Newtonian fluids can behave as two states of matter. We will be creating and having the opportunity to stand in Oobleck. If your child wants to participate in this portion of the lesson they will need to bring 2 plastic bags to cover their shoes. It will be messy fun! 

Auslan

Throughout the final weeks of school, students from every year level will be taught various Auslan signs relating to the Christmas season. They will sing and sign many well-known Christmas songs, as well as participate in numerous games and Christmas activities that will help to consolidate their learning of these festive signs.