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FOUNDATION NEWS

Welcome to Term 4 in Foundation! It really is amazing how the year is going by so quickly.

Everyone has settled back into the routines of school and there was great excitement as we shared our holiday experiences with each other.

As part of our Health inquiry unit for Term 4, we have begun to tune in to our compelling question,  ‘What’s Good For Me?’  As a pre-assessment task, we labelled and illustrated a blank outline of the human body with names of the different parts of the body. Some of us even included the names of different organs.

We also came up with individual wonderings about the human body. Over the course of the term, we will endeavour to find out the answers to all of the wonderings we have displayed in our learning space. The understandings for the Term 4 inquiry are:

• Our bodies grow and change over time
• There are people and actions that can keep us healthy and safe
• We experience a range of emotions and we can manage them in different ways

As writers, we are learning to use the dotted third lines and to place all letters in their correct place guided by the lines. Last week we began to use descriptive words in our sentences to describe a Beanie Bear. The point of using descriptive words (Adjectives) is to make our writing more interesting for those reading our completed sentences. Mrs Wenckowski is very proud of our writing about the Beanie Bears and the efforts we are all going to when using the dotted third lines guided by her “Clever Cat” stamp!

Looking forward to a fantastic final term of Foundation with our circus performance on Thursday 20th October.

Please note that Sports uniform will need to be worn on Wednesday and Thursday this week due to changes in the timetable for PE and Circus lessons.

Have a great week!

Leanne Wenckowski

Foundation Teacher

YEAR 1/2

Welcome back to Term 4! It was wonderful to see all the smiling faces and hear the laughter as we returned to school last week.  We excitedly swapped stories about all the fun that was had over the holidays and caught up with our friends. 

This term, as part of our Inquiry, we will be exploring the big question ‘What’s good for me?’  As researchers, we will find out about our three understandings and take the opportunity to make connections to The Resilience Project. 

• Our bodies change and grow over time
• There are people and actions that can keep us healthy and safe
• We experience a range of emotions and we can manage them in different ways. 

As curious thinkers, we activated our prior knowledge and shared our first thoughts about all the things that are good for our health and well-being. We traced our bodies and labelled all the different parts we know, and shared our questions and wonderings. As researchers, we began finding out about the brain, the heart, the bones, the lungs and even nerves and veins! This week, we will explore the different stages of human growth and how we change over time. As collaborators, we will also participate in a shared experience with Body Safe, where we will learn about emotions, safe and unsafe body signs, private parts, consent and trusted adults. 

As mathematicians, we are tuning in to the mathematical concept of Fractions. Some of us will explore halves, and some of us will explore quarters and eighths. As thinkers, we will represent fractions using materials, pictures, words and standard notation, and look at the role of the numerator and denominator.

As people of faith, we tuned into the Catholic perspective of creation. As thinkers,  we activated our prior knowledge about what the world may have looked like ‘in the beginning’, who we believe created the world and what we think they created.  We then engaged in the thinking routine Think-Puzzle-Explore, whereas communicators, we shared our first thoughts and wonderings about the Creation Story from Genesis in the Old Testament. 

As readers, we began unpacking the purpose, structure and features of a procedural text. We identified all the different elements, such as a how-to, title, numbered steps, sequencing words and the use of verbs to show an action. As writers, we collaborated to write procedural texts about how to wash an unusual pet and how to sneak something into school. We made sure to include all the different features that we learnt about. This week, we will have time and opportunity to make different things and write our own procedure about it. 

There are so many exciting experiences and learning opportunities this term and we can’t wait! 

Alycia Marsico, Stefanie Carriera and Alexandra Phillips

1/2  Team.

YEAR 3/4

Welcome to Term 4 parents and students! Buckle in as it’s going to be a busy term full of lots of experiences! Please see below our Week 2 timetable: (some changes have been made) 

As readers and writers, we are learning to identify and analyse the features of advertisements. We viewed various advertisements and unpacked their features. We understand that different advertisements serve different purposes, for example, to persuade, inform or entertain. 

As mathematicians, we are learning to solve division problems using a range of mental and written strategies. We can identify the connection and relationship between multiplication and division.

As inquirers, our big question is ‘Health: Have you got the message?’. We tuned into our topic with the thinking routine See Think Wonder using various images and objects related to Sun Safety. 

As members of a Faith Community, we begin to explore the Creation Story. We unpacked the story by viewing an engaging video and started a storyboard sequencing what God created each day. 

On Friday, 3/4BP will be hosting our whole school prayer and assembly. We welcome all parents and carers to join us in the Hall from 8:50 am. 

Have a great week!

Year 3/4 Team

Belinda Panzarino, Katarina Davidson & Graham Troy

YEAR 5/6

What an exciting week to begin term 4! The students were excited to catch up with each other about their holidays.

In Religion, we are learning about the Creation story and unpacking the scripture reading of Genesis. Students have been sequencing the events and creating a piece of artwork to represent the story.

This week's Resilience Project session was to describe what happens to our brain when we feel certain emotions and to develop strategies to encourage positive emotions. The students were able to identify the chemicals released during the emotion of ‘joy’ and describe how emotions influence our behaviour. They were engaged in working with a partner, tracing around one person using chalk and identifying the chemicals released when we feel happy emotions (dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin). Students were required to ‘draw’ the chemicals moving in the body.

In Mathematics, the students are focussing on Geometry.  They are learning about 2 Dimensional shapes and the different types of polygons. The students are learning about the properties of 3 Dimensional Objects and how to make the various objects. Students had fun using matchsticks to make squares, pyramids, and triangular prisms and identify their properties.

In Literacy, the students are undertaking author studies. They are learning about different texts written by the same author. This week they focussed on Margaret Wild’s texts - Feathers and The Stone Lion. They are learning about the visual literacy that authors use to engage the reader. This includes the elements of colour, angles, subject matter, light and shade. In Writing, we are learning about the different structures and features of poetry writing.  The students have written amazing Haiku and Limerick poems.

Spring Is ending soon

Get ready for the hot sun

Summer Is Coming

Summer Is here

The wind flows as the sun burns

Children are joyful

Seagulls fly around

Waves crashing in the moonlight

Turtles move to sea

By Christian Papas

Flying through the trees

Sitting on a gum nut tree

Flying over me

Jumping tree to tree

Eating behind the sunset

From the green green grass

By Hunter Fitzgerald 

There once was a very strong man

Drove from Rome to Paris in a van

When his van broke down

Halfway to his town

He pushed the van with his bare hand

There once was a very rich doctor

Who flew in her new helicopter

She flew into a tree

And broke her left knee

Then all of the nurses would mock her

By Ava Piotti

There once was a man with no hair

Whose dream was to tackle a bear

He went into a cave

And came out with a shave

That is how he now has no hair

There once was a nice old kangaroo

That came down with a very bad flu

He got a box of doves

And lost his boxing gloves

But they were just stolen by his crew.

BY Maya Woodhouse

Have a wonderful week!

5/6 Team

Viviana Clarke, Olivia Sargent, Annette Gasbarro, Michelle Casamento