Year 3 News

The year has started off with a bang!

The grade 3s have settled in wonderfully and have achieved so much in the short amount of time that has passed so far this year.

In literacy, we have been writing narratives. We have explored the use of our senses to add detail and make our writing more interesting, and written some suspenseful paragraphs that would have anyone on the edge of their seat!

Writing samples:

As the boy was swimming in the ocean, he felt something rubbing against him. It looked like the most evil thing, and it was shocking! It looked very dark. It was blue and had red evil eyes and a big fin. It was the most terrifying thing you would ever see, and it was very very fearsome.

By Ethan and Olivia 3A

It was a dark and scary night, a mysterious figure was walking down Mystery Lane until …

Bark! Two fierce dogs were chasing him! While he was running he smelt a horrible odour, it was the dogs pee!

He saw the dogs red bloody eyes, he also saw a code on the dog’s chests! He heard the fierce dogs barking, and people yelling “what is that racket!”

By Gabriel 3D

In numeracy, we have been revising and extending our understanding of place value, and using this to help us solve large addition and subtraction problems. We have just begun looking at measuring length, and will continue to practice addition and subtraction throughout the term.

Our humanities project this term is to create our own versions of The Game of Life. Just like real life, The Game of Life is a twisty, windy road filled with decisions, expectations, disappointments and curve balls.

To create our games we have been researching career paths, rules and laws, and how our decisions can affect us.

We are looking forward to getting some real life perspectives at our incursion on March 15th.

At the end of the term we will be celebrating our achievements with a games session.

The Year 3 Team

Year 5 News

What an amazing start it has been for the Grade 5’s. After our start up program we have been kicking goals all the way to week 6.

Firstly a huge congratulations to our student and vice reps for this year.

They are:

5A: Millie Downing and Carol Lee

5B: Jackson Partridge and Josh Spiteri

5C: Peter Hoang and Misa Guevarra-Vo

5D: Annalise Muir and Kevin Olenga

5E: Enrique Romero and Devaughn King

5F: Jessica Read and Mubarak Bakheet

Also a huge congratulations goes out to all those students who put their hand up to have a go at being the Student Voice rep for their class.

Don’t forget if you haven’t already logged in with your child’s classroom for Seesaw to do so, so you can be involved with your child’s learning in the classroom.

We have a couple of quotes from some students in 5E about their year so far:

So far in year 5 I have enjoyed turning improper fractions to mixed numbers. I like that in writing we are worked on prefixes and suffixes.

Oliva Santos

I have enjoyed learning improper fractions and mixed numbers because you never know when you are going to use them.

Maverick Plonsker

In year 5 so far we have had fun. In writing we have been working on narratives and working on dialogue. We have also been looking at our audience when we have been writing. In PBL we have been focussing on ways to make a change in our community.

Maame Kyei

Thanks,

Year 5 team.

Year 6 News

The Year sixes have been working hard to be CHANGE MAKERS through our PBL unit this term.

We are working to make our Brookside/Caroline Springs community even better and are looking forward to sharing our ideas for change with you all at the end of the term!

In Literacy we have been improving our persuasive writing skills in order to support the work we are doing in PBL as well as applying these skills to write and present some very persuasive SRC and Sector Leader applications.

We have been reading the novel ‘Boy Overboard’ in each of our classes to sharpen our within the text comprehension (summarising, word solving and inferring), each class is thoroughly enjoying this text and would highly recommend it!

We have had a fraction focus in Numeracy and have been working together to solve a range of equal sharing fractions problems through the use of Problem Based Maths sessions, where we work to solve a worded problem and Learning Centres where student take ownership over their learning and challenge themselves through a series of fraction practice activities. The students are working very hard and are developing a sound understanding of these key fraction concepts.

We have selected our teams for Interschool Sports and students are keen to train each week as they prepare to represent Brookside in Soccer, T-Ball, Netball and AFL.

We now have Mathletics up and running and all students are required to complete their set tasks each week and achieve 1,000 points as well as continuing nightly reading.

Year 6 Team

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