Weeks 3 and 4 “First lines are a gift. We don’t always know what is coming next, where the journey of the line will lead us.” Tate Modern This week (week 3) we focussed on observational drawings of nature. We observed the plant specimens in vases and took a line for a walk in the […]
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This week the Year 3/4 students were back in the kitchen using their senses of sight and smell to investigate and gather preliminary information about many different spices from all around the world. In the Kitchen Garden Workshops on Wednesday students began to learn about and compare different types of spices as a way to
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Music has been bringing our neighbourhood to life this week as some year 3 students joined together to perform at the first assembly of 2020. These students diligently brought their instruments and rehearsed throughout the week, building skills and sharing strategies. This was a true collaboration between our students, the 3/4 teachers, their music teachers
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Dear Parents and Carers, This week in Year 2 it has been a bit hot, but we are doing great (Evie H) by listening and focusing (Ihsahn)! We have continued to focus on the idea of Welcome (Alex) because when someone else comes into our community we can do a big welcome for them
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The children have continued to explore our inquiry of Welcome, linking in with our school values and our rights and responsibilities. The shop provocation has developed, with students working on their ideas for our Welcome Shop. They have been writing welcome stories and creating welcome bookmarks; designing welcome cards and welcome badges; and constructing a
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Our focus so far has been on asking the questions of why and how in order to develop an understanding of our learning community and routines. Digital Responsibilities We have revisited our digital rights and responsibilities to maintain personal safety and develop a supportive online learning community. Students will continue to use Google Classroom this
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This year the Year 3/4s have the exciting role and responsibility of leading the development of a weekly and ongoing Kitchen Garden Program at Princes Hill Primary School, including creating a productive and sustainable kitchen garden in the existing garden bed area in front of the Gym/beside the North Oval. In our first week of
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On the first day of school, one of our 3/4 students brought in a wonderful rainbow flower. This sparked curiosity in all students and the teachers. We investigated and created a provocation to explore this more. Robert brought in some white flowers and we placed them in colored water. Students then created some predictions about
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Dear Parents and Carers, This week in Year 2 we focused on how we use the spaces in our neighbourhood to create a sense of Welcome (Nina). The first thing that we did was discuss how we learn (Evie H). Some of the things children mentioned when talking about their preferred learning styles were: From