The WA Police Force, Boat Design and Weaving visit the Junior School

Kindergarten

We are getting closer to the end of term, but there is still so much fun and learning happening in the Kindergarten classroom. This week we have been perfecting our fishing skills. We have been using fishing rods to catch different magnetic letters. We are getting very clever at knowing all of the names and sounds of the letters of the alphabet. During the last fortnight we have also read the story of the “Rainbow Fish” and learned the importance of sharing with our friends. We had a go at creating our own rainbow fish and then wrote the word “fish” underneath our masterpieces all by ourselves!

In Big Ideas, we have created a Harmony Tree, which is on display in the DaVinci space for everyone to see. Each day the students nominate their friends for the things they have done to make a difference. It is so wonderful to hear that there are lots of kind and caring Kindergarten and Pre-Primary children.

This week in Big Ideas, Constable Bayliss, from the Western Australian Police force came to visit us. He showed us the different tools he uses and explained how he helps to make a difference in our community. He then invited us to go and have a look at his real police car. We were super excited when we got to sit in the back seat and wave to Mrs D’Andrea on the car roof camera. The highlight of the visit, however, was seeing the flashing lights and hearing the siren!

Thank you Constable Bayliss for visiting us.

Mrs Tucker

Class Teacher

YEAR ONE

WOW half way through the term already! 

We have been designing, testing and evaluating our boats for Mr McGee this fortnight. We have investigated objects which sink and float. We then designed a boat and chose from materials like plasticine, cardboard, feathers, pop-sticks, matchsticks, paper and tape. We then tested our boats and nearly all of them SANK! We discussed what made our boats sink and then made changes to our designs. We discussed that the amount of plasticine will impact the weight and that our hulls might need to be taller. On the second round we were so pleased because more floated. We had three students take out the prizes. Patrick’s boat held 15 stones, Brody’s boat held 16 and Emilia’s held a whopping 20 stones! After we tested our boats again we evaluated our designs. We looked at our favourite part in the activity and where we would change our designs. It was such a fun activity! 

During Mathematics this fortnight we have been looking at patterns. We looked at patterns around our classroom and realised we have a mixture of number and coloured patterns. We then looked closer at our number patterns and made an assortment of different patterns and explanations about our sequences.

Art this term has been all about weaving! Last week we finished our Mexican God’s Eye that looked fabulous. The Mexican Indians made them for good luck pieces. We chose five colours of wool and carefully wove around the four sticks. It was a little tricky but we all helped each other. 

We are looking forward to sharing our class work with you all at our assembly this Monday.

Miss Behiels
Class Teacher

OTHER NEWS

Fr Bona will be celebrating the Junior School Liturgy on Tuesday, 18 November at 9.00am in the St Helena of the Holy Cross Church. Families are most welcome to join us.

An Orientation Day for classes in 2015 will be held on Thursday, 27 November. New students will join existing students to spend a morning getting to know each other and their new class teacher.

Melissa Croswell

Head of Junior School