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Student Achievement

During remote learning, children are still achieving and doing excellent work.  It is important to continue to celebrate and showcase the achievements our students are making despite not being at school.  I’m sure you’ll agree that the work below from the children across the years is amazing!  Enjoy.

Preps – Social and Emotional Learning = Gratitude Jars

Today the preps created their own Gratitude Jars during our Wellbeing Session. We filled our jars with all the things we are grateful for including our family, our friends, our teachers, and cuddles from our pets! Whenever we feel upset, we can look in our Gratitude Jars to remind us of everything we are thankful for. 

Geography with Years 1 and 2

In Grade 1/2  the children have been doing Geography and learning about maps, directions and collecting data. 

They had already learnt what Geography is, but just to revise ... Geography is about the Earth.

Geography is about land, water and air.  Geography is about people.  The Greek word ‘geo” means Earth.

Geographers study land, water, soil, weather and climate.  Geography helps us explore and understand our world.  It is not just about people and places, but also the stories about the places.  Geography is about the

interconnections between people and places. It is about the meaning of places and how it is part of our IDENTITY.

The focus this week was on All Nations Park. They looked at a picture of All Nations Park from 20 years ago when it was a landfill!  The students were amazed at what it used to be like. 

All Nations Park - BEFORE

AFTER!

And now ….. The children have been talking about how they use this beautiful park now.

Some of the comments from the students were "I love this park"

"I was there this morning"

 "I was there last night"

 "It's the best park in Melbourne"

"The top of the park, is a really good place to see everything and you can go there when you're lost!"

Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) with Year 3/4 

3/4s have been completing some journal writing as a part of SEL this week.  They complete a different journal task each day. 

With the poems below, one was a part of the SEL journaling activity and the second and third were a part of our Poetry unit in Literacy, some of the students have been working on planning, drafting and publishing Sonnets and rhyming couplets too. 

Really bad

Emotional 

Mind numbing 

Online 

Terrible 

Excruciating 

Learning experience 

Exciting NOT

Absurd 

Really annoying 

Near death

Internet 

No friends

Grueling 

By Annabel P

An overgrown world is just outside here,

The portal was green and covered in goo,

Entered the portal and now I am here,

I see an ocean, looks dangerously blue.

Suddenly a scary noise fills my small head,

Turn around a tiger is behind me,

I wish I could snuggle inside my bed,

Then I see a humongous bumble bee.

Follow the bumblebee to the ocean,

I am safe from the scary animal,

And I really need some safety lotion,

Am really sorry for the animal.

I run back to the friendly-Ish tiger,

I say sorry and give it some red meat,

She welcomes me she’s a friendly tiger,

She’s very very very nice and sweet.

Soon we’re best friends for ever and ever,

She’s better than any sort of leather.

By Abby C

I zoom across with gloom 

where the flowers bloom.

I fly through the air

With deadly despair.

I am the dragon mayor.

No one would ever dare

To mess with me.

I will make them flee.

By Innes N

What makes a poem a sonnet?

Traditionally, the sonnet is a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, employing one of several rhyme schemes, and adhering to a tightly structured thematic organization. The name is taken from the Italian sonetto, which means "a little sound or song."

What Is Iambic Pentameter? Each of the fourteen lines of a Shakespearean sonnet is written in “iambic pentameter.” This means a line contains five iambs—two syllable pairs in which the second syllable is emphasized. ... Much of Shakespeare's theatrical writing featured non-rhyming lines of iambic pentameter.

ALL OF MY SONNETS 

This sonnet is about a big fat pig

This fat pig loves to roll around in mud

This pig is so pink so fat and so big

Now have I told you this pig loves a cud

I would love to have a warm cool cuddle 

I love to have cuddles in my hoodie 

I like to call my cuddles muddles 

I love to have cuddles in my oodie 

Now I know this is off topic but ummm 

I love my family and they love me

Now follow me just walk just run just come

So that is me and my big family 

But this story was about Mr pig

And I think I told you he is very big

Mia V 

I like to cook delicious moist cake

There’s lots of ingredients like sandy flour

Us two love to bake but not when things shake

One time our cake got stuck up a tower

The nice bow on our dough started to blow

Nice cheesecake is nice to have for dessert

The dough that we use is moist and it shows

My old sweatshirt, it came out of a skirt

I like to have tea with choc-chip cookies

One day my friends and I ate a few mice

There’s this new kid who is called ‘Rookie’

Once my friends and I ate some newborn lice

With some ingredients make a pastry

And then it should end up quite tasty.

Abby P.

Beautiful work from our students, don’t you think?