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Lockleys North Primary School
German
Wir lernen Deutsch
Semester 2 began quite differently with our time in lockdown. Congratulations for adapting to a different way to access the learning and still engaging with learning German. Our language learning experiences continue to include listening, speaking, reading and writing tasks. Students interact with peers through action-related talk and play. They exchange greetings, express likes and dislikes and use repetitive language to respond to simple instructions and create simple spoken and written texts, using modelled examples and formulaic language. Participation in routine oral interactions such as responding to the class roll, guided activities like singing songs and playing games reinforce vocabulary and help students to gain confidence using the language. Question and answer conversations provide a good format for experimenting with, understanding and building confidence with language structures. Students will understand that all nouns in German begin with a capital letter and recognise the different words for ‘the’ (der/die/das), introducing the concept of gender for nouns. Repetition and question and answer dialogue is a significant way for conversational language to develop. Our friends, Felix and Franzi (puppets), will continue to be a part of some of our lessons.Please encourage your child(ren) to tell you about what they have been learning in German. See what they can teach you! I will add some songs and online learning sites to the Mellor google classroom for thosewho are interested in building on their learning beyond our 50 minute lesson each week.
Frau Edwards (Libby)
Elizabeth.Edwards559@schools.sa.edu.au
The Arts in Mellor
The Arts
In Mellor for 2021, each classroom teacher will explicitly teach each of the Arts subjects of Drama, Music, Dance, Media Arts and Visual Arts, as well as exploring these in discovery time. All arts areas will engage students through purposeful and creative play in structured activities, fostering a strong sense of wellbeing and developing their connection with the world.
Drama
The students in Mellor this year will be making, performing, analysing and responding to drama. Students will become aware of role and situation as they listen and respond, explore voice and movement and learn how their ideas can be expressed through role play and story.
Students will focus on making connections with Aboriginal Dreaming Stories and Australian animals to form the basis of drama productions.
Music
Throughout the year, students will explore with sounds as they learn to listen to, make and perform music. They will become aware of rhythm and pitch, beat and tempo and learn to differentiate between sounds and silence, and loud and soft sounds. They will learn to compose music, using notation to represent the music they have created, and perform music while keeping in time with group members.
Students will focus on listening to Aboriginal music, representing animals and creating our own music to sound like animals.
Dance
Through Dance in 2021, students will become aware of their bodies, and explore space, time, dynamics and relationships as they make and observe dances. Students will observe various cultures' dances and gain an understanding and appreciation of how dance is often a form of storytelling and a way to express feelings.
Students will focus on selecting and organising their own movements in their own dances and perform them to an audience to tell a story.
Media Arts
Media Arts in Mellor will involve students engaging with communication technologies and incorporating their Drama, Music, Dance and Visual Arts to design, produce, distribute and interact with a range of print, audio and screen-based artworks. Students will learn fundamental skills and processes to communicate in different forms such as movies and songs.
Visual Arts
Mellor students will be exposed to artworks and discussions around why and how they are created, as well as become aware of visual conventions and learn to notice visual detail. They will experiment with applying visual conventions such as line, shape, colour and texture, as well as looking at different forms, styles, techniques, materials and technologies to create their own artworks.
Students will be focusing on various artists, in particular Indigenous Aboriginal artists, to explore the techniques they have used and to then create their own artwork.
