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What's Happening in our Classrooms

Prep

What’s Happening in Prep: Weeks 9 and 10

 

What’s been happening

What a busy and fantastic term we have had! The Preps have been working hard to create their very own non-fiction book. We are looking forward to sharing these with you all at our Book Show, next Wednesday 18th at 9:10am. We have also enjoyed being ‘secret fairies’ to a classmate, practising acts of kindness and watching out for that person all week. The teachers are so proud of the efforts and achievements of the Preps and we wish all families a safe and happy holiday break, when it arrives!

 

What will be happening over the next fortnight

 

Wellbeing

  • learning how to be a good friend through random acts of kindness

Phonics

  • revising all learnt phonemes (open/ closed syllables, super hero ‘e’, digraphs, vowel teams, Mr Y the Cheeky Guy, Gentle Cindy)
  • introducing /ck/ - Long spelling after a short vowel sound

Reading

  • decoding words and blending to read smoothly

Writing

  • publishing and celebrate our writing
  • using dotted thirds to write upper and lowercase letters correctly
  • writing a sentence correctly

Maths

  • understanding the place value of numbers
  • revising learnt concepts (counting, place value, addition, subtraction, money)

Inquiry

Big Question: How do living things grow and change? 

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

  • What are some features of animals and plants?
  • How do living things grow and change through their lives?
  • What are the different habitats of plants and animals?

 

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

  • Wednesday 18th September 9:10am – Prep Book Show
  • Friday 20th September – Last Day of Term - 2:30pm dismissal 

Year 1

What’s Happening in Year 1: Week 9 & 10

 

What’s been happening

Student wellbeing is an important part of our school week. In the past few weeks Year 1 students gave their wellbeing some extra attention. We talked about our emotions and tracked them on the Zones of Regulation, we participated in activities that made us feel happy such as beading and drawing, and we reflected on our day in our Mindfulness Books. 

 

The Year 1 students have been taking on a variety of roles to complete our Science experiments. We have focused on working collaboratively, following a procedure and reflecting on the Sciences behind the experiment. 

 

What will be happening over the next fortnight in Year 1

 

Wellbeing

  • Students will consider their emotions through the Respectful Relationships program. 

Literacy

Literacy encompasses spelling, reading and writing. Students will be focusing on: 

  • Spelling: Students will learn when to use the different long vowel ‘o’ sounds <ow> <oa> and <oe>. For example, boat, toe, yellow. 
  • Writing: Students will explore a mentor text and mimic the sentence structure to create their own writing. Students will also compile Science write up of their newly completed experiments. 
  • Reading: We will be looking at mentor texts to identify the parts of a story. Students practice their reading with a text based on our spelling pattern a number of times throughout the week in a variety of ways, including choral, echo and cloze reading. 

Maths

Students will look at analogue and digital time, specifically focusing on o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to. 

 

Inquiry

Students will be making their own delicious Science experiment, investigating how materials change. They will also be creating a StopMotion movie demonstrating their understanding of our Science unit. 

 

Homework

  • Keep practicing spelling and reading the memory words that were sent home. 
  • The students have been looking at time in the classroom, it would be great if students could practice this more at home! 
  • Read every day to add to your 100 days of reading challenge and the Premier’s Reading Challenge.
  • Mathletics passwords are in the front of reading journals. Students can practice what we have been learning in class.
  • Additionally, students can choose a homework activity from the Prep - Year 2 homework rubric. 

Here is a list of suggested books students may like to read at home besides their Take Home Readers: 

  • Ella Diaries
  • Hey Jack!
  • Pizza & Taco 
  • Little Lunch 
  • Billie B Brown
  • Spooky House
  • Captain Underpants 
  • Dog Man
  • Ninja Kids
  • Paddy Mills – The big book
  • The Runaway Kitten
  • Bad Guys
  • Hot Dog
  • The Treehouse Stories
  • The Faraway Tree
  • Ella & Olivia
  • The Beach House 
  • Big Dream
  • Olivia’s Secret Scribbles
  • The Tiara Club
  • Geronimo Stilton
  • How to Train Your Dragon
  • Dragon Girls
  • Rainbow Magic
  • Curry Career
  • School of Monsters
  • The Boy who never gave up
  • Harry Potter
  • Ninjago
  • Weirdo (Ahn Do)

Year 2

What’s Happening in Year 2: Week 9 & 10

 

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

As our term comes to an end, our students will continue to learn and build on their knowledge of all areas of the curriculum. Students will also begin celebrating and reflecting on their amazing efforts from the term.

 

Wellbeing

During the next two weeks of the term, the students will continue to work through the Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships lessons. The Year 2 students will also be completing work around R U OK day and continuing to build their knowledge around self-confidence knowledge building.

 

Reading

Students will be focusing on making and adjusting predictions and using the text to confirm what predictions were made and whether they were correct and congruent. 

 

Writing

The Year 2 students will be replying to their Beaumaris North Primary School Pen Pal during our writing sessions. Students will begin exploring the concept of procedural texts and creating a set of instructions for their Arcade Games. During the next two weeks students will be working on their ability to write sentences that flow and make sense for the reader. By building on this skill the students are ensuring that their game instructions are clear and concise.

 

Maths

Students will continue to develop their knowledge and language around space and shape. Other taught concepts will be revisited during our warmup activities in the classroom.

 

Inquiry

Over the next two weeks students will be wrapping up their Inquiry projects that they have been working on over the past term. The arcade games that the students have been building are ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! 

 

Reminders

Hats needed for the last two weeks of term!

For the last two weeks of term students will need to wear a Beaumaris Primary School hat at both recess and lunch time. Any student who does not have a hat will need to sit under the big blue shade cloth. 

 

Headphones

If your child has mentioned that they do not have working headphones (or any at all) could you please ensure you have purchased a pair for your child prior to Term 4. 

Year 3

What’s Happening in Year 3: Term 3 Week 9 & 10

 

What’s been happening in Year 3

Over the past two weeks, the Year 3 students have participated in a wide variety of engaging activities. Students were excited to be paired up with their Year 4 tech buddy this term. During this time, the Year 4 students familiarised the Year 3 students with computer fundamentals and programs that they will use in the classroom next year. 

 

The Year 3 students also replied to their Pen Pals at Hampton Primary and are looking forward to hearing back from them soon.

 

The inquiry in Year 3 has progressed with the whole cohort contributing to creating a model of an inclusive playground. The students loved building and creating elements using recycled materials collaboratively with a partner.

 

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

 

Wellbeing

  • Celebrating emotional growth.
  • How have we improved our mindsets this term?

Reading

  • We will be continuing our work on inferring when reading texts. 
  • Comprehension strategies will be used to build literal and inferential meaning when reading transactional texts. 

Writing

  • We are learning about suffixes and prefixes during spelling sessions.
  • We are also learning about how we expand our vocabulary so we can include more complex words in our writing.
  • We will be continuing to focus on interesting sentence structure.

Maths

  • For the next two weeks we will applying learnt strategies to complete multiplication and division problems.
  • We are focusing on developing our recall of the times tables as well as completing time tables challenges in our classrooms on a weekly basis.

Inquiry – Design and Technology

 

Big Question: How might we design a community park that is sustainable, inclusive and reflects Indigenous perspectives? 

Students will now be working on writing a presentation to explain why they have incorporated their elements in their playground. They will present their ideas and justifications to an audience.

 

Homework

Students are asked to continue to read every night and to complete Mathletics tasks set by classroom teachers. Students have some optional activities to complete from the Homework Grid in their homework books.

 

Reminders

Diaries are expected to come to school every day with their reading recorded and ready to be checked by the teacher. We are keeping a tally of individual reading and as a class to hopefully win the prize of a pizza lunch!

 

Important Upcoming Dates: 

Last Day of Term Friday 20th September2:30pm Early Dismissal

Year 4

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

 

What’s been happening

Over the last few weeks, we have been conducting weekly Digi-Tech sessions. The Year 4s have demonstrated maturity and approached every session with a sense of responsibility. They have been showing their Year 3 buddies how to use applications such as One Note, Canva and Word. They have also been demonstrating how to use keyboard shortcuts and tools such as the Snipping Tool, to create Word documents. The Year 4s have been looking forward to these weekly sessions and have benefited from acting as a mentor to their younger peers. 

 

What will be happening over the next fortnight

 

Wellbeing

  • Year 5 Upstanders Workshops.
  • The animals in your brain; understanding the neuroscience of how the brain works and how to regulate when challenged.
  • Positive peer choices; using social scenarios to make positive and healthy choices.
  • Weekly mindfulness activities. 

Literacy

  • Reading fluency sessions with a focus on inferencing, text connections and unpacking comprehension questions.
  • Spelling – suffix ‘age’
  • Literacy Planet 
  • Analysis Session – Text Responses and comprehension questions
  • Watch Nim’s Island Movie
  • Analysis Session – Comparison between movie and book

Maths

  • Term 3 assessment.
  • Numeracy Ninja’s - Daily numeracy fluency sessions.
  • Make connections between fraction and decimal notations. 
  • Order events or the outcomes of chance experiments in terms of likelihood.
  • Identify whether events are independent or dependent.
  • Conduct repeated chance experiments.
  • Describe the variation in results from repeated chance experiments.
  • Represent common percentages. 
  • Make comparisons between those with and without equally likely outcomes.
  • Assign probabilities using common fractions.

Inquiry

  • Weathering and erosion
  • How do human actions impact the Earth’s surface?

Homework

  • Daily reading recorded in diaries.
  • Allocated and outstanding Mathletics tasks. 

Reminders

Week 9

  • Planning week – all specialist classes this Thursday 12th September 
  • Japanese incursion – Thursday 12th September 

Week 10

  • Last day of term Friday 20th September – early finish at 2.30pm

Year 5

What will be Happening in Year 5: Term 3 Week 9 and 10

 

What will be happening in Weeks 9 and 10 in Year 5

How did we get to the last 2 weeks of term so quickly? The postponement of Bike Education last week was disappointing. Both the staff and students were looking forward to the program. Just a reminder that we have rescheduled it to Week 3 of Term 4, 21st-24th October. If you are able to help out during the sessions, please click the link to sign up: volunteersignup.org/HJA4D

 

Week 9 is recording and editing week for the students’ podcasts. They have worked extremely hard over the past few weeks to write their scripts and create and search for sound effects. The students are excited to record and edit their masterpieces. Wednesday 11th September is the Upstanders Launch. The BPS Upstanders will meet with their counterparts from our surrounding schools to launch this year’s project. On Friday the Year 5 students will go to the Shirley Burke Theatre to watch the Beaumaris Secondary College musical: Alice in Wonderland. 

 

Week 10 is the last week of Term 3. Friday is a 2:30pm finish. The members of the BPS District Athletics Team will compete on Tuesday 17th September at the Seaside District Athletics Carnival. Good luck to all competitors in their events.

The Year 5 Team would like to wish students and families a restful holiday break. We look forward to seeing you all in Term 4.

 

Wellbeing

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

Literacy

  • Students will practise reading fluency (accuracy, rate, prosody) through repeated oral strategies and information texts related to Earth and Space Science curriculum.
  • Student will scan text to locate key information.
  • Students will continue planning, drafting and editing their podcast stories.
  • Students will investigate how complex sentences can be used in a variety of ways to elaborate, extend and explain ideas.
  • Students will recognise and write less familiar words that share common letter patterns but have different pronunciations.

Maths

  • Students will apply properties of numbers and operations to find unknown values in numerical equations involving multiplication.
  • Students will apply properties of numbers and operations to find unknown values in numerical equations involving division.
  • Students will use the order of operations to solve problems.
  • Students will learn the acronym BIDMAS and apply it to numerical equations. 

Science 

Chemistry 

  • What is matter? 
  • What is the difference between solids, liquids and gases? 
  • Why do materials behave the way they do? 
  • What causes changes to matter? 

Earth and Space 

  • What makes up the solar system? 
  • Why is the sun so important?

Homework

An updated Year 5&6 Homework Rubric has been sent to families via Compass. It is also linked to your child’s class Microsoft Team.

Students are expected to be reading every night and completing assigned Mathletics activities over the fortnight.

 

Reminders

 9th September Podcast Recording Day

11th September Upstanders Launch Day

13th September Beaumaris Secondary Musical Performance

17th September Seaside District Athletics

20th September Last Day Term 3: 2.30pm Finish

Year 6

What’s Happening in Year 6: Week 10 

 

Performance rehearsals continue with the show really starting to come together. The students have impressed us with their patience, persistence and Growth Mindset as they hone their stagecraft. On Tuesday, each class participated in a workshop facilitated by REACH. The discussion was centred around empathy and ways this develops – whether it be through connecting with others, viewing things from other people’s perspectives and trying new things. Students also completed their last Maths Olympiad and Maths Games in Week 8 so we look forward to hearing the results next term.

 

What will be happening in Week 10: Year 6

Students who have made it through to the Beachside Network Athletics will be representing Beaumaris – we wish them luck! 

 

Wellbeing

  • Students will be taking part in the first of two ‘Reach’ workshops exploring the impact of empathy, connection with other people and working together. 

Literacy

  • Spelling – personalised word study.
  • Reading Fluency – students will continue to develop their fluency through repeated reading of class texts.
  • Classes will be practising a range of writing skills to increase engagement and write for different purposes. For example, through using different sentence types, sentence lengths and beginnings.
  • Students will apply these skills to plan, draft and publish a short story of 150 words.  

Maths

  • Students will continue to focus on measurement .
  • Students will be working with elapsed time, 12- and 24-hour time.
  • Students will be solving problems involving duration across different Time Zones.
  • Students will tackle an independent ‘Fun Fair’ Mathematics project where they will apply skills from across the year so far.

Inquiry

  • Big Question: How is energy generated and transferred and how can we generate electricity in sustainable ways?
  • What are the different forms of energy?
  • How is energy transferred and transformed?
  • How do circuits conduct electrical energy?

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 20 September.

 

Reminders

Week 10

Tuesday 10th September – Beachside District Athletics