Classroom News

Foundation Miss Bennett

Wow what a SUPER-STAR term in Foundation. The students have all come such a long way, we can't wait to see what fun they get up to in Term 2.

The last couple of weeks the Foundation students have been tying up all of the loose ends with their learning by finishing their 'Lent and Easter' unit, their unit on 'time' and their learning of the letter sounds M, S, F, A, P, T, C, I. Some highlights in Foundation over the past 2 weeks are:

- Having the CFA and Policeman Tim visit us.

- Playing with the BeeBots in STEM.

- The Caritas Coin Line.

- Our inquiry celebration: Safe/Unsafe

- Easter Bonnet parade.

- Milla bringing Easter Eggs to share.

Have an amazing Easter break and enjoy the school holidays! Miss Bennett can't wait to see everyone back and refreshed in Term 2.

Grade 1-2 Miss Hayes

Maths

In Grade 1/2 we have loved exploring patterns. We have created patterns of our own, looked and found patterns in our environment and continued patterns made by our peers. We have also investigated number patterns, where we have found the rule e.g. plus 2 when looking at a skip counting pattern.

Literacy

During our 'Feathers for Phoebe' unit we have been working on writing a description for the 'New Phoebe'. Over the past few weeks we have learnt a lot about adjectives and noun phrases. Now we have been focusing on taking this knowledge and using it to write complete sentences.Below are some of our sentences:

Alex - Phoebe has fluffy wings.

James - Phoebe has two big wings.

Phoebe - Phoebe has long, fancy, shiny, orange wings.

Addison - She has bright colourful wings.

Hudson - The new Phoebe has marvellous long wings.

Arabella - The new Phoebe is colourful and bright.

Eden - Phoebe has a long and bright tail.

George - She has a beautiful blue chest.

Lani - Phoebe has marvellous, long, fancy feathers.

Sydnee - Phoebe has a shiny tail.

Carter - The new Phoebe is beautiful.

Ryder - Phoebe has a long tail.

Daphne - Phoebe has marvellous, beautiful, wonderful, fabulous, fancy, bright, fluffy, orange wings.

Grade 1-2 Miss Hart

Wow! What a busy term in grade 1-2! We have had some much fun learning new things and spending time with our friends at school. We have had so many opportunities to take part in, including incursions and excursions. We are very excited for school holidays, but cannot wait for Term 2 to start!

Here are some of our favourite things that have happened this term:

‘My favourite thing this term has been making Easter cards for my friends and the BorrowBox Excursion.’ - Liam

‘This term my favourite thing has been seeing my friends and having Miss Hart as my teacher.’ - Stevie.

‘My favourite thing about this term was making Easter cards for my friends and writing about how to catch the Easter Bunny. I also enjoyed playing with my friends.’ - Edith.

‘My favourite this term was the BorrowBox Excursion.’ - Tom

‘My favourite thing this term was doing Sport and playing with friends.’ - Oonagh

‘My favourite things this term were talking about Wibbly in the RRRR program, using adjectives to describe Phoebe (the bird) in writing, learning about 2D and 3D shapes and practising for our Holy Week Performance.’ - Francis.

‘My favourite thing this term has been Sport with the Soccer coach.’ - Jaxon.

‘The best part of term 1 has been playing with my friends in the beautiful weather.’ - Sophie

‘My favourite thing from this term has been soccer coaching.’ - Zara

‘The best part of term 1 has been everything!’ - Addie

‘I have really enjoyed sport! Soccer was the best!’ - Ben

‘I have loved that I have learnt how to do the upside down move on the monkey bars.’ - Maddie

‘The best part of Term 1 has been Heggerty, Sport and all types of learning.’ - Will

‘I have really loved Maths this term, especially Number.’ - Marla

Grade 3-4 Mrs Crosbie

Year 3/4 Crosbie have had an amazing first term of 2023. We have settled into a routine and have a great sense of the school values- Respect, Kindness and Learning. These values are seen consistently at play amongst each of the students as they go about their day.

Many students have made some awesome growth in all areas of learning and each student is always proud of what they achieve on a daily basis.

Below are some reflections from the students about their favourite part of term 1, 2023-

I really enjoyed going to Echuca to play the tennis tournament and the St Patrick’s day activities. Kane

I enjoyed playing tennis in Echuca with my friends and Miss Nicholls coming with us. Colman

My favourite part of the term was playing sport with our new sports teacher and doing addition and subtraction maths. Lucas

This term I really enjoyed St Patrick’s day because I got to do all of the fun activities. Cyril

I really liked our inquiry unit, making the town and writing the rules and laws. Cabe

I enjoyed making the township of Democracy. Lil

I really enjoyed building our town and writing the Laws in Inquiry. Noah

This term in Inquiry I enjoyed making the buildings for our town and writing the rules and laws. Isla

My favourite part of the term was building the town for Inquiry and St Patrick’s Day. Riley

My favourite part of the term was reading Matilda and the Witches by Rohl Darl. Parker

My favourite part of the term was making the town for Inquiry and having our parents come to see the town we made. Aria

My favourite part of the term was reading the witches and matilda and doing the creative response for both books. Toby

My favourite part of the term was being with my friends and seeing my teacher everyday. Amelia

My favourite part of term 1 was getting my pen license and going to the tennis tournament in Echuca. James

My favourite part of term one was Inquiry where we made buildings, created a town and made the rules and laws for the town. Hamish.

Grade 3-4 Mrs Stock

The students thoroughly enjoyed sharing their Inquiry work with the whole school and families on Thursday at our Inquiry Celebration.

All students worked well in their groups to create 10 rules for each of their community groups. They then had to create 10 laws for the town that they would have to follow. After the laws were created, 3/4 Crosbie voted on the best laws and Ella and Charlotte won.

Amazing effort 3/4!