In the classroom

Foundation - Grade 1

Over the past fortnight the Foundation/Grade 1 children have been busy building their sound knowledge and tricky word bank. The Foundations are now very excitedly reading decodable readers independently and the Grade ones are investigating the differences between nous, verb and adjectives. During our numeracy units we have been looking at the part and wholes of numbers with the grade ones being introduced to the addition and equals to symbols. 

This fortnight the F/1/2s had a visit from Ditto who spoke to the children about personal safety and that it’s ok to say ‘no’. The children enjoyed the singing and dancing with their friend Ditto while learning a valuable lesson on who we can talk to ‘our 5 special adults’ and how to respond when we don’t feel comfortable.

Grade 1 / 2 

Last week the Grade 1/2 students enjoyed their visit from Ditto, learning all about keeping safe and who we can tell if something is making us feel unsafe. 

As we come to the end of term, please make sure students are coming to school with jumpers or jackets on these cold mornings!

Grade 3/4

My cozy cat looks like Pikachu. It has a Magpies scarf on it and an orange footy.   by Sonny

Jupiter is sitting on the couch watching the Cats beat Collingwood on the TV. He is so cute. He is the best cat. He is our family favourite. Cute kitty cat.  by Arloh V.

A male cat who is a bowling pin shaped cat with Doberman ears. His eyes are green with white pupils, he has black fur with orange and red stars. He wore a blue scarf with grey stripes and blue hearts. He has a white mouth with golden whiskers. The theme is purple with orange and red stars.  by Sanjo 

My cozy cat is holding a soccer ball.  by Oliver

My cozy cat is holding a hot chocolate mug. The background is like a snow and rain type of background. I did that type of background because it has been cold lately. I did pink eyes because I thought it was cute. I was going to do a pink nose, but I thought that pink and pink was not very good, so I did blue instead. I did a little cat because I thought it was going to be cute and not as big as everyone else. I used a purple scarf because that was not one of the colours I already used.  by Matilda

Name: Autumn

Theme:  A girl that goes for Jamaica in Bobsledding and got to hold the trophy.  

Idea: I got the idea off Cool Runnings the movie that is about a runner who lost in a race for the Olympics and then became a bobsledder and a driver the hardest part of the sport.   by Meabh

I chose a Carlton supporter for my cat. The Cat colour is brown it's wearing a navy blue and white scarf because that’s Carlton's colours. It's holding a football. Its standing in the MCG and it has face paint of navy blue and white lines.   by Layla

I made my cozy cat look The Joker.  He is scary and evil and bad!! Ugly and mean.  by Jonty

Grade 6

This week, students have been working hard in the classroom completing their Literacy Assessment based on their novel The Silver Donkey. Students have been using their knowledge of new vocabulary and language techniques to write fables with an important moral at the end.

In Numeracy, students have been solving the area of rectangles and starting to compare rectangles with the same area but different perimeters!