Discovery Centre
Curriculum
What a fantastic week of remote learning we had last week. Thank you again to all the families for your support during these challenges. It was great to see so much excitement and engagement around our Science Week activities, we hope the students enjoyed completing different experiments!
In Literacy, students learned about text to self connections, where they make a connection between something in a book and something in their own life. It was great to see so many interesting connections, like 'I have a friend who speaks a different language', 'I've played basketball before' and 'I have made new friends before'.
Students also completed some exciting writing tasks about Science Week and we asked students for help to come up with some new ideas for our weekly Choice Board. We were so excited by the student's interesting ideas such as: fine motor skills, mastermind (a maths game we play in class), make your own picture book, cooking, vegetable art using stamps and directed drawing. We had so many interesting ideas that we couldn't fit them all in this week's choice board, but keep an eye out to see what the students suggested for our Choice Board.
In Mathematics, we focused on Location. Students were provided lots of fun activities in which they could practise using location key words to find and describe the location of different objects. The week finished with students having the opportunity to make a treasure map and use key words to describe how to get to the treasure.
For our Choice Board, we had a science focus to help celebrate Science Week. We hope that students had fun completing experiments on Google Meet and at home. It was great to see lots of students trying out the taste test, rubber egg and balloon experiments!
Have a fantastic week,
Miss Dawson, Miss Tossell and Miss Henwood
Reminders
- Foundation disco on Friday 27 August at 4:30pm
- To help celebrate Book Week each Foundation teacher plus a special guest on Friday will be hosting a Story Time Zoom session. Please see Seesaw for more information and zoom links
- Book Week Dress Up Day - on Wednesday, there will be a Google Meet check in (instead of Seesaw check in) to celebrate Book Week and share costumes
Student Voice
What activities should we put on the Choice Board?
- "I would like to find lots of ingredients in the fridge to make pizzas" - Oscar
- "Draw your favourite book character for Book Week" - Malia
- "Throw 5 goals to basketball" - Nolan
- "I would like to do a Just Dance" - Adnan
Pupil of the Week
FD: Malia K
For demonstrating a love of learning during Remote Learning. Malia you approach all tasks with enthusiasm and it was fantastic to see your engagement and excitement around Science Week activities. Keep it up Malia!
FH: Clara M -
For demonstrating a love of learning during Remote Learning. You have listened to my feedback and already started working on your writing goal by making sure that your tail letters hang under the baseline! You are a goal getter Clara!
FJ: Max M
For demonstrating curiosity and a love of learning throughout all of your home learning activities. Max it is wonderful to see how much hard work you are putting in to each activity you complete. It was especially fantastic to see you enthusiastically explore different experiments during Science Week. Keep up the brilliant work Max!