YEAR ONE
HOLIDAYS are in the air but we’re still working hard in Year One! Throughout this fortnight we have been looking at descriptive writing as our genre focus, measurement in Mathematics and insects for Science.
We have written pieces describing people; looking at what they have, what they look like, how they act and our thoughts about that person. One example, written by Lucas:
Steven Diamond
There is an imaginary friend. His name is Steven Diamond. He is ten years old. He is an explorer, he has blue eyes. He has short hair. His favourite colour is blue. Steven is funny.
I like Steven.
We also described an orange and wrote a description about the fruit. Some of our describing words included: sweet, sphere, round, yummy, juicy, bitter, tangy and delicious. During week nine we looked at describing our classroom focussing on what our room has, colours and feelings we experience when we’re in the room. The students have been trying to use commas to list things so we can remove the word ‘and’. The children have enjoyed writing descriptions and have made a lot of improvements.
During Science with Mrs Tucker we have been analysing insects and their body parts. We are able to label the head, thorax, abdomen and number of legs on a range of insects. We have also looked at the variety of habitats insects live in. Within Mathematics with Mrs Tucker we’ve been measuring length and height. We have also been estimating before we have been measuring!
Miss Behiels
Class Teacher
Finally Spring has sprung and the holidays are just around the corner! The Pre-Primary students have been thoroughly enjoying getting a little wet during water play, taking their shoes off to run around in the sand, applying sunscreen and drinking lots of water to stay hydrated.
We also listened to the story of “The Gingerbread Man” this week. After reading the book, some of the children recalled that there were different characters in the versions they had previously heard. We decided to research some of the variations in this fairy tale. These Kindy children are very clever at identifying differences. We have also become very observant in identifying the use of exclamation marks in stories and love to change our voices when we read. Of course we had to make our own tasty gingerbread men, like the lady in the story, although we made sure we ate them before they ran away!
Pre-Primary
Finally Spring has sprung and the holidays are just around the corner! The Pre-Primary students have been thoroughly enjoying getting a little wet during water play, taking their shoes off to run around in the sand, applying sunscreen and drinking lots of water to stay hydrated.
The Pre-Primary students cannot wait to share their Assembly Monday afternoon and their digital story during Friday’s Learning Journey, based around our Big Ideas topic "What is our Story?”.
I would like to thank all of the Pre-Primary parents who have supported the students by assisting with activities, classroom duties and external cooperation. The Winter Term Learning Journey has been uploaded and it should be accessible to all parents via Parent Coneqt under Assessments.
It is almost time to sit back, relax and reflect on another successful term.
Miss Pritchard
Class Teacher
Kindergarten
It has been a ggggggggggreat fortnight in the Kindy room, with lots of fun and learning. We have been investigating the many interesting things that start with the letter G. Last week we read a story about a giraffe named Gerald who could not dance very well until he got some special advice from a grasshopper. We used our artistic hand painting talents to reproduce a picture of Gerald dancing. After this we did some of our own grooving to music by pretending to dance like different animals.
We also listened to the story of “The Gingerbread Man” this week. After reading the book, some of the children recalled that there were different characters in the versions they had previously heard. We decided to research some of the variations in this fairy tale. These Kindy children are very clever at identifying differences. We have also become very observant in identifying the use of exclamation marks in stories and love to change our voices when we read. Of course we had to make our own tasty gingerbread men, like the lady in the story, although we made sure we ate them before they ran away!
We have been lucky to inherit the use of the pluck-a-duck game from the Middle School’s Big Ideas project. We are having lots of fun with the game to help us read and identify numbers (with some clever cookies even reading big numbers like 52 and 68!) Our mathematics learning has branched out into our amazing playground with the children collecting bark chips to make patterns and number sequences. Aren’t they geniuses?
Other News
The Coffee and Conversation session scheduled for last Friday with the College Social Worker, Mrs Jo Betti, was unfortunately postponed. Further information will be provided once a date is confirmed.
Parents and family members are reminded to keep Friday, 26 September in their diary to celebrate the end of Winter Term with the students. Times and details will be provided shortly.
Phase Two of the playground is almost complete. We look forward to opening the facility at the commencement of Spring Term.
The Junior School also take the opportunity to farewell the Year 12 students who are celebrating their school journey during this last week of term and wish them success in their future pathways.
Miss Croswell
Head of Junior School
21 September 2014
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