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Kindergarten

Our Kindergarten writers have had a fun week exploring Suzy Lee’s Wave as their mentor text, using it to strengthen their skills in responding to literature, creating texts, and expressing ideas. 

The students have been learning to use emotive verbs, adjectives and figurative language to describe characters, actions and feelings. Through shared reading and discussion, they identified how the girl in Wave moves, reacts and plays and experimented with language that shows emotion, not just action. 

Students practised story sequencing by ordering key events from Wave, demonstrating their growing ability to recognise beginning, middle and end.                        

Using a single image from the book, students completed speaking and listening tasks where they described what they could see, shared predictions, and responded to peers’ ideas. These activities build confidence in oral language, turn‑taking, and active listening. 

 Students wrote one or two sentences describing an image from the text, focusing on using precise adjectives and emotive verbs to bring their ideas to life. They then edited and refined their writing, checking for punctuation and meaning. 

To complete the learning sequence, students created artwork inspired by the movement, colour and emotion in Wave. This multimodal response helps them connect visual and written meaning.

STEM

On Monday, the students of St Margaret Mary’s had the opportunity to experience Starr's Planetarium. The Planetarium Educator, Gary, provided each class with a great experience that covered the planets of our solar system, the constellations we see in the sky such as the Southern Cross and the Dark Emu. This term, all classes are studying the topic ‘Earth and Space’ and this was a great way to start.