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Term 2 Week 6 

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Foundation

The Preps have been learning the new sound /h/.  They are also revising learnt tricky words, especially ‘was,’ and ‘you.’  They are learning the new tricky word, ‘to’ this week.  Each day the prep children revise the sounds they have learnt so far: s, m, t, a, p, i, f, r, o, d, c, h.  In their InitialWrite lessons, they are looking at the beginning of a story to name the ‘Who,’ ‘Object’ and ‘Action’ of the story.  They are also learning how to describe a character.  The children are listening to the storybook “The River” by Sally Morgan.  This is an indigenous text which fits in nicely to Reconciliation Week this week. The children have been focusing on the words ‘peeping,’ ‘sliding’ and ‘chomping’ which are featured in the text. 

Gr 1

Grade Ones have been learning how to order parts of a sentence, so it makes sense and have also been combining sentences.  They are learning about the spelling patterns /ar/ and /or/, /ore/.  As part of their InitialWrite lessons, they are reviewing the beginning of a story and looking at the different parts of a story.  They are enjoying the storybook, “The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch” where they are learning what the words ‘devour,’ ‘scrumptious,’ and ‘ingenious’ mean. 

Gr 2

Grade Twos have been revising some sounds this week: /ar/, r-controlled vowels /er/, /ir/, /ur/ and ‘c’ ‘h’ saying /k/.  They have been revising the following tricky words: lose, already, alright and where.  Their reading lessons have focused on the comprehension skills of making predictions and making text to self and text to text connections.  In writing, they have been learning how to write a persuasive text and have looked at the features of a persuasive text.  The children finished off their study of the storybook, “Chooks in Dinner Suits,” a text based on real events that happened to a penguin population near Warrnambool.  They are keen to watch the movie based on the same story, “Oddball and the Penguins,” starring Shane Jacobson.  They have learnt new vocab from this text: trample, rummage and loyal.  Grade twos have also been learning about noun groups during their grammar lessons. 

Foundation

In Mathematics, Grade Prep children have been learning about 2D shapes.  They are identifying and sorting them and are creating pictures with them.

Gr 1 

In their Mathematics, Grade One children are working on the topic of “Counting and Place Value.”  They are learning how to partition numbers, name one more and one less than a two-digit number and will then apply one more and one less to solve problems.

Gr 2

In Mathematics, some of the Grade Two children have been learning about 4-digit numbers.  They are reading and writing them, counting collections and locating 4-digit numbers on a number line.  They have been practising their counting skills.  Other children are revising their place value skills to the tens and hundreds. 

Gr 3 and 4

In Literacy, students are learning how to execute horizontal joins to the letter ‘t’. Students are reading and comprehending the book Uncle Xbox using knowledge of text structures and language by using comprehension. They are building knowledge of new vocabulary and defining and analysing words and looking at sentence structures.  

In Mathematics, students are identifying and representing 4-digit numbers, division facts of 5 and 10 and understanding length and area.  

In Humanities, students' journey around Australia to explore each state and territory, using maps to locate places and identify their natural and human features. They investigate how landscapes, climates, and environments influence where and how people live, and recognise the cultural and spiritual significance of Country/Place for First Nations peoples. 

Students develop geographical skills by asking questions, locating and recording information, interpreting data from maps and images, and comparing similarities and differences between places. They communicate their learning through travel journals, maps, and a final travel brochure that highlights the features and significance of an Australian location. 

Gr 5 and 6

In Mathematics, the Grade 5 students have been learning about fractions and will be moving onto a new topic about 3D shapes this week. 

The Grade 6 students have been learning about 3D shapes, and have this week moved onto our new topic about decimals. 

In Literacy, the Grade 5 students have been reading their novel – ‘Black Cockatoo’ by Carl Merrison & Hakea Hustler. While reading this book, students have been completing a factual recount about ‘Jandamarra’. 

Our Grade 6 students have this week finished reading ‘Us Mob Walawurru’ by Lisa Wilyuka and David Spillman, and have completed their factual recount. Next week, the Grade 6’s will begin reading our new book called ‘Free Diving’ by Lorrae Coffin. This picture book that tells the story of Australia's Aboriginal pearl divers, who dived into the ocean without any modern diving equipment. The story is a lyrical narrative. Set in the northwest of Australia, the book vividly describes the dangerous and courageous task of free diving, where Aboriginal divers collected pearls from the ocean floor to support the pearling industry but often sacrificed their own lives. While reading this, students will be completing a book report in writing time. 

In Science, The Grade 5’s will be studying ‘Plant Adaptation’ and the Grade 6’s have continued with their topic all about ‘Earth, Moon & Sun’. 

In Humanities, the Grade 5’s have started a new unit called ‘Changing Communities’ and the Grade 6’s will be focusing on ‘Spread of European Empires’.