Independence Centre
Curriculum
This week’s Newsletter has been written by 3/4R students.
In Writing, we did Cinquain poems! They are a type of poem with five lines. We had the option to do Indonesian Day, Science Week, forces (magnetism gravity etc) or on reusable resources!
Written by Parezae and Alice.
In Maths, we were doing BPM (Beats Per Minute) and we all did some challenges and you would have to see how many heartbeats in 10 seconds. We tracked our heartbeat by feeling our heart or wrist or neck. Then we made the times to minutes then hour and guess what Xavier did all the way to a century and it equals to 52,416,000,000 beats. That’s a lot of numbers! This week we were also learning about short division and practised mild, medium and spicy questions.
Written by Sean, Fateh and Xavier
This week in Reading, we have been focusing on reading poems. The skills we have been focusing on are: keeping your pace, putting expressions, keeping a clear loud voice and so much more! We are also here to talk about the Sorry Day poem that 3/4 classes had read throughout the week, we discovered lots of hard words that we didn’t know so we looked in the dictionary, wrote the meanings in our thinking book and talked about the poem as a class. Thanks for listening bye!!
Written by Zachary C
On Indonesian Day, we had multiple activities to do with Indonesian day. We did Batik, we played the angklung, made paper flowers, did resistance art, weaved ketupat and got to eat some pandan pancakes!
Written by Monica and Julia
In Guided Inquiry the 3/4s designed sustainable products. They had to make a sustainable version of a product or make a new product! We began the design process thinking about what renewable resource our item could use. We are excited to make these products using recycled materials.
Written by Sam and Alita
Have a wonderful Book Week,
Miss Chooi, Miss Richardson, Miss Wang, Mrs McCoy, Miss Tillotson and Miss Honan
Student Voice:
- Oscar S - He liked writing the Little Mrs Streitberger.
- Zsofia C - She liked eating pancakes & playing the angklung
- Kayla - She liked doing the instruments & learning the actions
Reminders
- Spot the STEM challenge
- Book week costumes ready for the parade on Thursday!
- Please bring in recycled materials to help with our Guided Inquiry creations.
Pupil of the Week
3/4C: Aryash G -
For demonstrating a love of learning by acting on feedback to correctly use the short division strategy. Well done for your excellent problem solving and perseverance Aryash!
3/4H: Stewart L -
For showcasing your strength of perseverance when publishing your narrative. It was wonderful to see you using a variety of punctuation throughout your story, as well as including an illustration. Great work Stewart!
3/4M: Christian K -
For demonstrating a love of learning when solving division problems using the short division strategy. It was excellent to see you challenging yourself to work through finding decimal remainders. Great work, Christian!
3/4R: Sam S -
For demonstrating perseverance when learning about the short division strategy in Maths! It was fantastic to see you documenting your working out in your maths book. Keep up the great work, Sam!
3/4T: Hayley H -
For demonstrating a love of learning and perseverance when solving division problems using the short division strategy. It was excellent to see you challenging yourself as well as helping your peers. Keep up the amazing work, Hayley!
3/4W: Xavier D -
For demonstrating creativity and perseverance when drafting, editing and publishing your story on Little Mrs Streitberger! You used a plethora of different figurative language text features including metaphors, similes and personification to make it interesting and unique. Incredible effort, Xavier.