Learning & Teaching
Learning and Teaching encompasses the following areas: Student Outcomes, Curriculum, Assessment, Reporting, Principles and Pedagogy.
LITERACY - Vira Pirrotta
BOOK WEEK 21 - 25 August
https://cbca.org.au/cbca-book-week
On Friday, the 25th of August, there will be a book week parade @ 9 am. Students can dress up as their favourite book character or wear a costume inspired by the theme of book week.
To celebrate Book Week students will engage in many book-related activities in their learning spaces. Teachers have planned lessons around this year's Children’s Book Council of Australia shortlisted titles. All the titles will be available from the library after Book Week.
At school, students will participate in many book-related activities but also competitions. These competitions will be drawn throughout the week. Winners will be announced at our book week parade.
Family Competition - Picture Story Book Reading Scavenger Hunt
Your challenge is to find two picture books for each category. Record your answers in each box. Include the title and author of each of the boxes. Return it to Ms Pirrotta by Wednesday, 23rd August and enter the draw for a $30 Palace cinema E-gift Card.
Family Picture Story Book Reading Scavenger Hunt
SCHOLASTIC BOOK CLUB
ISSUE 6 Book Club Catalogue has arrived! Look out for your copy coming home in your child's schoolbag! It's packed with hundreds of books for just $3 to help you on your child's reading journey. Liz Watson's second book 'Let's Party' is in this issue.
NUMERACY - Colleen Monaghan
It is always so good working in classes and listening to students explain their thinking, whether it be solving subtraction problems, the perimeter of various shapes or multiplication problems. There are always a variety of strategies used and happily shared.
I love to ask “How did you solve it? ”What were you thinking?" "Could you do it another way?”
This week in the middle classes, I posed a problem that had them all thinking. It was great to see so many of them persisting on it and sharing their thoughts. Jacob in grade 3/4BZ, eventually came up with the answer and was very proud to share it with the class.
This morning when I returned to the same class, many students came up to tell me they posed the problem to their parents and siblings and were happy to announce they struggled with it too. I thought I would share it with you. The lovely thing when working with kids is their ability to try numbers, when not successful, they bounce back and retry with other ideas.
All the Digits:
The whole calculation uses each of the digits 0−9 once and once only.
The 4-figure number contains three consecutive numbers, which are not in order. The third digit is the sum of two the consecutive numbers. The first, third and fifth figures of the five-digit product are three consecutive numbers, again not in order. The second and fourth digits are also consecutive numbers. Can you replace the stars in the calculation with figures?
This activity originally featured in the hands-on Brain Buster Maths Boxes, developed by members of the NRICH Team and produced by BEAM. These resources are out of print but can still be found on Amazon.
The Foundation students have been having fun exploring Wishball. If you haven't already seen this or played it. You may love it too. You can type in wish ball hundreds, thousands or decimals with hundredths.
Wishball challenge: tens Wishball: hundreds Wishball: hundredths
How many attempts does it take you to get to the Wishball?
SPORT & PE - Michael Jennings