This week the Year 2 Neighbourhood will be doing a lot of work getting their ‘My Place’ presentations ready – a lot of students are excited about learning how to make power point presentations, and others are planning on making models, books, and posters. If you have photos of your child’s special place that they would like to […]
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As we move forward with our Year 1 Inquiry “Our Place in the World”, we are continuing to investigate the scientific concepts around light, sound and bugs. The children have been exploring light and will build on their ideas and learning by experimenting with colours on a projected light-box; bugs have been a huge source
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Morning all! Mark has now commenced a new role in the school and as we wave aloha to Mark we also wave aloha to Jess! (Yes – aloha can mean both hello and goodbye!) Jess will join the year one team and we are very excited to have her on board! We have added Jess
The Preps each counted the letters in their name, made a unifix stick with the number, then placed their unifix stick and name tag with the numeral. We found out that There are more names with 4 letters in Red group There are more names with 5 letters in Yellow group There are more names with
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The Preps have been learning about patterns! We have been learning about repeating patterns. These patterns begin with a base which then repeats over and over. We looked at how they can be made with colours, shapes and numbers. red blue yellow red blue yellow red blue yellow 123123123 circle square square circle square square circle
Volunteers needed please! Next week 3/4 Neighbourhood 2 will be running 2 maths provocations at Princes Park. Dates: Wednesday 8th of March : 12:15 depart for park 1:45 arrive back at school (just before recess) Thursday 9th of March : 12:15
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Let us learn through the multiple modes of expression! We have been working very productively at our best, to explore how we can operate effectively as a 3/4 Learning Neighbourhood. We are currently exploring the following provocations collaboratively throughout each neighborhood: Art Studio : Little Jars of Sunshine – Create a heart felt message that
Over the past few days, students from both 3/4 neighborhoods embarked on a journey around the Princes Hill community to explore various geometric shapes that can be found in the built and natural environments. Students collected geometry data as they walked along the footpaths and discussed with friends the geometric properties they found. ” It
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This week has been amazing and full of fun learning experiences. Here are some examples of the week. Literacy focus Writing – Narrative Genre Reading – Word detectives and spelling patterns Numeracy Focus Data collection and representation – making pictographs Inquiry Focus Exploring my place in the world – interacting, responding, engaging and exploring Interesting
Mathematics This week in the 5/6 Neighbourhood we’ve been investigating some of the maths to be found in Earthquakes. In “Maths on my own”, our students extracted data from an information report, and in “Write about maths”, we examined the two main scales used to measure earthquakes. Students also enjoyed sampling our usual smorgasbord of