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St Mary's School Mooroopna
Term 2 Week 10
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Foundation
The Preps have continued revising how to write learnt letters and sounds. Their new letter/ sound correspondence is ‘K’ and children now know it makes the /k/ sound, like the letter C. They are learning how it feels to say and hear this sound. Children are identifying pictures of things that begin with the the /k/ sound. Grade Preps have also been practising their tricky words and how to isolate the sounds in words and put them back together eg. K.i.t - kit.
Gr 1
Grade Ones have been learning about the spilt digraph bossy ‘e.’ They know that the bossy ‘e’ at the end of a word makes the vowel say its name or the long vowel sound. Eg. Cake, bike, spoke. Grade Ones are enjoying listening to the story, “Harry by the Sea” and the lessons focused on this text. They are learning more about sentences and how to construct a well written sentence by including a ‘Who?’ an ‘Action’ and an ‘Object’ in their sentence or a ‘Who,’ an ‘Action’ and a ‘Where?’
Gr 2
Grade Twos have had an assessment of their spelling and are reviewing morphemes and topic specific vocabulary. They have been learning about open and closed syllables and how they can decode a word by breaking it into its syllables. They can also spell a word by breaking the word into its syllables and know that every syllable must have a vowel sound in it when they are writing it. They have finished reading the text, “Sea Turtles” and have written an information report about Sea Turtles. They have learnt facts such as: Female Sea Turtles return to the beach they hatched from to lay their own eggs; Baby Sea Turtles never meet their mother, and the top of the Sea Turtle’s shell is called the carapace. Grade twos continue to revise learnt tricky words and are practising the spelling of these words.
Foundation
Grade Preps are representing numbers on Number Tracks to 20. They are also comparing and ordering numbers to 20.
Gr 1
Grade Ones are focusing on ‘Time.’ They are sequencing events and looking at the duration of time, comparing how long different things take. They have completed their unit on ‘Length’ where they measured using universal informal measures.
Gr 2
Grade Twos have been revising addition of two-digit numbers using base-10 blocks and number lines. Some Grade Twos have been revising how to locate numbers to 1000 on a number line and doubles to 20 using tens frames.
Gr 3 and 4
In Literacy, students looked at different types of poetry – Haiku, Cinquain, ‘I am,’ Acrostic, Colour and Shape poems. Students learnt they poetry is a type of creative writing that uses imaginative words, rhythm, and sounds to share ideas, emotions, or stories. The children learnt they are unlike regular stories that poems are often broken into lines and stanzas, instead of standard paragraphs.
In Mathematics, the grade 3 students are learning to apply their knowledge of multiplication and division facts for 2, 5 and 10, using arrays, number sentences and related facts to solve real – world problems.
The grade 4 students are learning to identify and create two-dimensional shapes, to calculate the amount of straight sides, curved sides or vertices and create two – dimensional shapes.
In Science, students are explored colour and how this relates to light. They looked at how white light is made up of all the colours of light, and how a prism can separate them so we can see the colours. They explored how this related to rainbows.
Gr 5 and 6
In Maths, the Grade 5 students have been learning about decimals.
And the Grade 6 students have been learning about probability, and will next week move onto time & patterns.
In Literacy, the Grade 5 students have been reading their book called ‘Waves’. Waves is a narrative non-fiction book about the waves of migration to the shores of Australia. Every journey is perilous, every situation heartbreaking. Every refugee is a person forced by famine or war or fear to leave their home, their families, their friends and all they know. Children have travelled on the waves of migration to the shores of Australia for tens of thousands of years. This book tells some of their stories. While reading this book, students will be writing a narrative story.
Our Grade 6 students have been 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 are studying ‘Plant Survival’ 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’.