Inquiry Centre

Curriculum

A week of wild and wacky weather but overall a fantastic week had by all. We have adjusted back to the school routine. Thank you to all parents and carers supporting the entry and exit points. As senior school is returning to school on Tuesday All 1/2 classes with entering and exiting from Car Park 1 ( near Kinder). 

In Numeracy, we explored addition strategies, starting the week with Bridging to 10 and playing ‘Power Up’. Next up was writing simple addition stories and using an open number line to model the adding. We played ‘4 in a Row’ an activity from SeeSaw to practise adding two numbers together, we recorded the sum and solved the sum using vertical addition. This week our focus will be subtraction. 

In Literacy, we began to discuss and search rhyming words, students read through a range of nursery rhymes to find rhyming patterns. We also identified and sorted parts of speech- Nouns, verbs and adjectives. This linked in very well with Writing as we were focusing on poetry. We began the week developing a rhyming word bank, next we wrote couplets and creating a ‘Pop Poetry’ poem about the cold weather.  We then went on to explore and write quatrain poem using an AABB or ABAB pattern of rhyming. We will further develop our poetry writing this week again! It has been a lot of fun ! 

In Wellbeing we held a circle time discussion to talk about our inner coach and how they can support themselves and also use kind words to motivate others as well. 

Thank  you again for another fantastic and productive week! 

Hope you all enjoyed the long weekend and we look forward to another incredible week in the inquiry centre! 

Emma Honan, Aidan O’Connor, Emma Marsh, Kathy Wang, Andy Parthenopoulos, Emily Kiefte, Simone Rock and Erin Bennetts.

Student Voice:

" I loved doing poetry" Alya 1/2E

"It was fun to do Arthub" Lewis T 1/2E

"I liked doing the zones activity" 1/2E

Reminders

• All 1/2 students enter via Car Park 1 (near the Kinder)
• Bring a drink bottle to school.
• Weather permitting cross country will be run during your child PE class this week.

Pupil of the Week

1/2BR: Tim C - 

For showing perseverance and enthusiasm in challenging mathematics lessons and working with peers to problem-solve collaboratively.   

1/2E: Ryan Z - 

For demonstrating perseverance when creating your poetry, you worked hard to make sure your poem ended in rhyming words and was creative! Keep it up Ryan! 

1/2H: Christian K - 

For demonstrating a love of learning and creativity when writing a range of different poems. You created engaging couplets, and took on the challenge to write cinquain poems. Amazing work Christian!

1/2K: Olivia C - 

For demonstrating a love of learning when creating rhyming couplet poems. You used perseverance to find creative rhyming words and took on the challenge to write more rhyming lines than required. Amazing job superstar Olivia!

1/2O: Amber S - 

For using teamwork to solve additional problems and record them vertically. Together with your partner you took on the challenge to work with larger numbers and practised recording problems vertically. Awesome Amber!

1/2P:  Felix S - 

For showing great care for our learning space and the class community. You have used initiative and leadership skills to help organise the classroom after lessons and respectfully encouraged others to follow classroom routines. Thank you Felix!

1/2W: Parezae F - 

For demonstrating creativity when writing your couplet and quatrain rhymes. You continued to persevere especially when you found it challenging and have created beautiful and funny rhymes! Thank you Parezae!