March 2016

3/4 Learning Update.

We are currently exploring the big idea of identity through perspective. Our inquiry questions are: How can I explain my perspective to others? How can I understand what someone else’s perspective is? Provocations that we are setting up in the neighbourhood and our daily experiences with literacy and numeracy will provide opportunities for students to

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Happenings

WEST AFRICAN DRUMMING KOFI KUNKPE Traditional Master Drummer In Term 2 students will have the opportunity to participate in a series of 7 sessions with Kofi Kunkpe, experiencing traditional drumming, dancing, songs and culture from Ghana and other West African countries. This experience will commence with a performance by Kofi and other West African artists, and a cultural presentation to help

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Learning Focus

Numeracy In numeracy this week, we continued our exploration of analogue, 12 hour and 24 hour time as well as tackling some problems based on elapsed time. Students worked in groups as they developed strategies to work out when a series of events started, how long the series of events took, or when the series of events

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Learning Focus

Literacy In Literacy this week the students built their understanding of sugar in drinks and the related health effects.  When reading the information texts they applied the strategy of scanning to detect key information. In spelling the students used feedback from their Literacy books to begin updating their personal spelling lists and looking for common

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Reading workshop today

The Preps have been reading ‘The jigaree’. I can see a jigaree. It is jumping after me. Jumping here. Jumping there. Jigarees jump everywhere! In today’s reading workshop we identified all the ‘doing words’ in the book. (Jumping, dancing, swimming, skating, climbing) We then created our own story, using their own ideas. It is called:

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Welcome Picnic & Disco

Welcome Picnic and Disco As we settle into the school year making new friends, reconnecting with old friends, learning people’s names and knowing who’s in my child’s class a Welcome Picnic and Disco it’s what’s needed!! Let’s welcome new families to our PHPS Community on Friday 18th March on the big oval from 6-8pm. Bring your picnic rug and picnic …

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The Universal Language

…while some may argue that it is love. Science would argue that it is Mathematics/numbers. Why is this important at all? This week we have been inquiring into Number Systems. We’ve looked at how humans around the world record number past and present. From Roman Numerals, Egyptian Glyphs and Japanese characters we have explored quite a lot.

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