From the classroom
News from 5/6 Unit
Hello families,
In Reading, students continue to use the text, See you in the Cosmos by Jack Cheng, as a mentor text. We have been using this text to develop a deep understanding of various peoples' connection to space. This text enables students to apply and develop comprehension in relation to our Inquiry unit this term. Students have been enjoying sharing the reading experience of this text with the plot of the story really developing over the past week.
In Writing, we continue our unit on Information Reports. Students have been developing research skills by using the internet, texts and taking notes from videos to effectively source relevant information. They apply writing strategies to plan and structure information relevant to our Inquiry topic of Earth and Space Sciences.
In Numeracy, students have been participating in a range of chance experiments, developing understanding of the concept of probability. We have conducted several experiments using various resources such as dice and playing cards. Students have used tree diagrams, sample space charts and probability lines to identify and label the chances of outcomes occurring. In the upcoming weeks students will begin a new unit to identify and describe properties of prime, composite, square and triangular numbers as well as factors and multiples of whole numbers and use them to solve problems.
On Tuesday, students participated in a Science Incursion on Earth and the Milky Way. Students had the opportunity to collaborate within a group to create an accurate model of the planets in the Solar System, participate in a group activity that models the effect of a large mass on space-time and how this leads to gravitational force and work to design and build a model planetary rover.
Kind Regards,
Pippa Davis and Nathan Baxter
What’s Happening in 3/4?
As the term continues we are working hard to complete our persuasive texts. Students are writing persuasive pieces outlining whether they are for, or against the topic of ‘Students should be rostered on to rubbish duty.’ I can tell you that some of them are quite persuasive – not to mention environmental!
In numeracy we have been learning about area and perimeter – which next week will move onto ‘time’ – ‘in the knick of time!’ – to wrap up the end of the term. We will be doing lots of work with analogue and digital times, so feel free to have lots of discussions about this over the coming weeks – but let’s hope they don’t put two and two together to come up with persuasive reasons why their bedtime should be later.
Please remember homework is due on Friday!
Have a sensational week!
Alec, Anna, Lisa and Pete
The Adventures of the 1/2's
Hello to all of our Grade 1/2 families,
It’s amazing to think just how quickly the term has flown by. We are almost at the halfway mark for the school year! Before we know it the school holidays will be upon us, but in the meantime we have plenty of fun learning left before we break for a well deserved holiday.
In Literacy, we have continued to learn about the features of procedural texts, how they are different from other text types we have studied thus far and the skills required when writing them. We continue to consolidate our skills around comprehension strategies when reading including prediction, visualising and making connections.
In Numeracy, we have been learning about Mass and using balance scales to compare the weights of different everyday objects. This week we have been learning mapping skills and giving and following directions. In the coming weeks we will continue practicing our location skills, revise our knowledge of skip counting.
As always, our phonics program is running daily, with students now building upon their skills with long vowel sounds, digraphs, phonemes, trigraphs, all designed to help support us when learning to spell new words.
Please remember to remind your child to bring their reader folders everyday as students use these for notices and we monitor for their progress in nightly reading. Students are able to swap their readers each week with two decodable books and two books of their own choice. We are seeing a great response from the students, and it has been wonderful to see the progress made in the student home reading log books.
Kind Regards,
The 1/2 Teaching Team,
Helen Edwards, Anies Davidson & Adam Jarvis
Fantastic Foundation
Over the next two weeks we will be wrapping up our learning about First Nations people and begin exploring different ways people help our community. In Literacy we will continue working on our phonics program and the students are feeling very proud about their reading achievements which is fantastic to see and hear. Just a reminder that your child is now bringing home decodable reader books and should be working on these every day. Encourage your child to say each sound and slowly blend the sounds together, repeating until they can ‘hear’ the word. We are working on learning just a few ‘tricky’ words – these are words that are eventually decodable but are essential to early literacy such as “to” and “the”. These are the words we have learned so far and in the next fortnight we will also work on “no” and “go”. In Writing we are continuing to work on writing our own sentences and usually write a response to our mentor book of the week. If your child is attempting to write at home, please encourage to think about their whole sentence before starting, keep the sentence short, and then work on recording a letter for each sound they hear. In Math we will continue our learning centred on addition, whilst always working on essential counting skills. We have been working on making models to show all items in a sum, and will begin exploring the ‘counting on’ strategy. This is when we solve 5+3 by counting on from 5…then 6, 7, 8!
I am so proud of all their learning, and this first semester of school is quite momentous. I would encourage all families to celebrate this achievement with your child and reflect on how they have grown in this time.
Melissa
From the Sports Field
District Cross Country: 2022
Wednesday May 25th, Quambee Reserve, Park Orchards.
Thank you to all students who represented Marlborough P. S competitively and with great sportsmanship. You should feel proud of your achievements.
Marlborough P.S. was placed third overall, out of eight schools.
The 12/13 year boys came 2nd for their age group.
This is a terrific achievement for a small school. The atmosphere was so optimistic. 😊
Thank you so much to staff, Nathan Baxter, Peter Moore and Christine Pillot for attending. A big, special thank you to our parent helpers Mark Nidenko, who travelled on the bus with students, Kate Flower and Robyn Revell who manned checkpoints on the course. Thank you also to all our dedicated parent/ guardians who supported and cheered for our Marlborough students and all other school competitors and for sending photos through to me. You are all invaluable and so awesome!
I have the results of the following 13 students who made it through to Divisional Cross country.
Boys 9/10: Jackson P: 3rd, Lachlan S: 4th, Kieren H. F: 7th overall.
Girls 11: Lenka W: 4th: Amber L: 10th, overall
Girls 12/13: Summer W: 2th, Lilly B: 4thoverall.
Boys 11: Mitchell W; 4th overall
Boys 12/13, Nick R; 2nd, Miles M; 4th, Ari R; 5th, Zach F; 8th , Bailey M: 10th overall.
We wish them all the very best at the future event of Divisional Cross Country: Tuesday 7th June at Yarra Glen Race course.
