12D - Ulysses

Welcome to the 1/2 Dragonflies yearbook!  How exciting it is to be able to create a yearbook for our class?

The Dragonflies are so excited to be able to share their ideas and thoughts about their class and the time they spent learning this year. It has been an amazing journey together and we all are leaving this year filled with new knowledge, memories and experiences! We can definitely say that we have learned so much this year!

Throughout the year we had learned a great deal about different topics. In term 1 in our literacy topics, we covered recounts and procedural texts. Then, in term 2, we learned about narratives and persuasive texts. In Term 3, we explored explanation and informative texts. We also introduced poetry. In term 4, we continued more with narratives and we also learned about biographies. We continued with poetry and we have created some fun poems that have been shared for your reading pleasure below.

Some samples of our poetry unit:

My dog

One day my pet 

had a bath and got wet.

So we tried 

to get him dried,

then he sat on my lap

and decided to have a nap.

By Alana

I am fantastic

Today I went to gymnastics

and I did some flips.

I found out that I am elastic.

When I was done,

I felt FANTASTIC!

By London

The Silly poem

I told mum I found a bat

mum said, "Get your hat".

Then I stepped on the mat, 

and I found a cat.

By London

At the park

I wanted to go to the park

my mum said, " Be careful of the shark"!

I thought, that's a bit silly

as my friend Billy

said, "Wake up Zak, you're dreaming"!

By Zakariya

This poem was a product of all students contributions

Maths

In our maths units, we covered a variety of topics over the year. We all enjoyed learning about place value, addition and subtraction, collecting and interpreting data, multiplication and division, fractions, telling time, using a calendar, 2D and 3D shapes and their properties, length, volume and capacity. Throughout the maths lessons , the students were exposed to open ended tasks and used problem solving strategies, like drawing a picture, using materials, acting it out, working out backwards, etc. They have come a long way this year and we are all very proud of ourselves!

Here are some pictures to show how great we are!

Addition, use of materials to help us add!                                  

Calendars

Length and comparison of lengths

Telling time

Fractions using play-dough

Making a paper container to explore capacity

What is your most memorable moment of 2022?

• Going to the Melbourne Museum - Stavros, Maribeil, Savannah
• The Yarra Vally Water incursion - Tara
• The way Natalia taught our lessons, it was fun and enjoyable - Manasvi
• The lessons on fractions, especially the one we used the playdough to learn fractions - Vivaan
• The first day of the year, because that is when I found out my new classmates and best friends - Jibreel
• Hanging out with my friends and when we went to the Melbourne Museum excursion, also having the best teacher ever! Go Natalia! - London
• I enjoyed the way Natalia taught the lessons - Zakariya 
• My teacher telling me that I am the most smartest person in the classroom (in my previous school) - Aryan 
• Enjoying my learning - Ralph
• Playing outside with my friends - Alana
• I like the school and happy that I have friends! - Geesheva
• Using laptops for testing! - London and Vivaan
• I will always remember Natalia as my year 1 teacher! - Maribeil
• Learning and doing my work - Alexander
• I enjoyed the science incursion the most  - Savannah
• Playing with my friends Ralph, Jett, Vivaan and David - John
• I enjoyed doing maths lessons with Natalia - Mohamed
• When I started the school in term 4 and I liked my teacher - Jett
• I really loved the visit from the actors and performed the King Arthur story. I also enjoyed the Melbourne Museum excursion. - Abigail

This are our students in 12D! :)