Year 6

We have been busy in 6J so far this term and have hit the ground running with many events already! Students have written short recounts of some of the things we have been up to.

In Reading, we have completed a 2-week poetry unit, focusing on literacy devices including alliteration, imagery, repetition and personification. Students then wrote two wonderful poems, a rhyming couplet and a free verse metaphor. I am so proud of the creative flair that students displayed! We are just now beginning our main unit for the term, The Industrial Revolution, which will take us to the last couple of weeks of term.

In Writing we have had a large focus on sentence level writing, identifying and creating the 4 main sentence types: exclamation, command, statement and question. We have also been working on compound and complex sentences.

In Maths we dabbled with some Year 7 Algebra, using pronumerals to represent unknown values when creating patterns. It was great to see students challenging themselves. We are now moving onto location, in particular the cartesian plane, then will move into mass and capacity. Always underpinning our maths is a large focus on number and mental automaticity when completing problems.

We have lots of transition activities planned for this term to prepare the wonderful Year 6 students for high school, starting with an online incursion through Headspace this coming Monday. We then have the upcoming local schools transition day.

Students were given the instructions for the home project this week, which is due Monday 24th November. Students will present them plus an oral presentation in front of the class. I can’t wait to see the digital creativity come alive!

Darcy	On Week 3, Term 4, we hopped onto the bus where we drove to Melbourne to the Art Centre. We listen to the Air Force Band make music called the Morning Melodies. The music was really good, nearly making me go to sleep. After an awesome day we went back to our school.
Harriette	In Term 4, Week 1, we went swimming for a week. We got to learn, swim and have fun. On the first day it was a bit of an assessment, but the rest was fun life lessons, and on the last day we got to ride on canoes and play fun games. The teachers were fun, supportive and cool. It was a fun week and we had lots of fun. It was a radical experiment.
Arturo	In Week 2, our school was met by Abli, a talented African drummer from Ghana. On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, we practised with instruments such as the Wusu Wusu and the Aslatua, and then finally did our performance on Thursday. He taught us his drumming and dances, and we hope the parents loved it.
Grace	On Monday the 20th of October, we went to the Arts Centre in the city to see the Air Force Band. They played lots of jazz music and even played Super Mario 64. At some parts I felt a bit listless but apart from that, it was cool and fun. Outside when we were eating our lunch, we were all chatting and laughing and begging our teacher to feed the homeless (us) after Wiley got her some chips. Then we got the bus on the way back and kept being too loud.
Levi	On Monday in Week 2 we learnt how to do some African drumming. The drum that we used was called a “djembe,”. It looked like a bongo drum, but a bongo drum is made in South America. The person teaching us was named “Abli” and he grew up in an western country called Ghana and all the countries surrounding it spoke French and Ghana was the only country in the region that spoke English. For the next 3 days we practised playing and dancing for Thursday night. Before we did our act we hung out in the classroom and we watched the first SpongeBob movie from 2004.
Zoe	In Week 1, the Year 6s and the Preps went swimming at the Kyneton Aquatic Centre. It took 25 minutes to get there, the experience was good and the teachers were funny and that made the experience much more fun. On Thursday we had to bring clothes and on Friday we had a fun day where we did canoeing and had a pirate theme.
Liv	In Week Three of Term Four the years 4/5s and 6s went to Melbourne's Art Centre to watch Morning Melodies which consisted of fast jazz music by the band “Air Force Band “. The band did great and went on for an hour with four different songs. At the end of the performance, we asked 3 of the band members questions about their roles, journey, and band experience.
Ella	During Week 2 of Term 4, our school was taught by an African drummer, Abli, from Ghana. Abli taught and prepared us for our Lancefield Primary School Artist in Residence concert, where students performed wonderfully, with singing, dancing, music and, of course, drumming.
Sophie	On the 13th of October, our school got to meet a special person, Abli, an African man from Ghana, who was going to teach our school African drumming for the next four days. The next day our Year 6 class got to have our first lesson, we learnt how to use the drum, how to do our class dance, how to do our class song and how to do our class beat. On Thursday night it was excellent. Me and Mikayla were the runners helping each class with their drumming. It was an amazing experience and an honour to be a part of African drumming.
Zachary	On the 20th of October 6J paid a visit to Melbourne to watch the Airforce band perform in Morning Melodies. It was a jazz band and the songs were very enjoyable.
Hunter	On the 20th of October the Year 4/5 6’s went on an excursion to the Morning Melodies Airforce band. They did traditional, jazz and gaming music. I thought it was amazing, and after it finished, we went home.