After a wonderful term of African Drumming workshops with Kofi Kunkpe the children are ready to present their learning to the community. The drumming performances will occur on Wednesday 8th June and Thursday 9th June. In order to present the range of learning that has occurred across the year levels there will be representation from […]
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This week, the grade one neighbourhood has really started to deepen our understanding of communication systems – in particular written forms of communication. We decided to go old school, and write actual paper letters! The students read the classic book The Jolly Postman to get some inspiration. The students then all got given a person in
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Maker Week is Coming! This week in the 5/6 Neighbourhood, we have been getting very excited about Maker Week. To get ready for next week, we have been brainstorming and experimenting with all sorts of high and low tech such as cardboard and lego construction, oz bots, Makey Makey, Hummingbird, Scratch, Little Bits and more.
We are moving into the middle week of a very busy term two. Students have participated in Family Life sessions and have started their African Drumming Workshops. NAPLAN testing took place this week, the students who participated need to be congratulated on their focus and effort during the testing this week. Students have continued to
The Preps will have the opportunity to grow their own plant (from cuttings) to attract more butterflies to our courtyard. They will be making mini-hot houses for them to help them grow. If you have any empty plastic soft drink bottles, we would greatly appreciate them. A collection container will be on the shelf in between the
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On Tuesday, the Preps listened to the story ‘We’re off to Thunder Mountain.’ What we found out while reading the book: It is a counting book! It has a growing pattern, with each new page the amount of creatures increases by 1. The characters in the story are all types of ‘spooky creatures’ It describes the characters.
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Literacy: – Deepening understandings of some key elements of story telling – character and setting – Writing about the bug hotel – Creating their own counting book. Writing number words and numerals – Creating cover for their scientific drawing sketch book and labelling the bug’s parts Numeracy: – Exploring different
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Here are some videos and photos of last week’s session. It certainly is an experience that the children look forward to each week. Kofi introduced us to an instrument that can be made at home using a bucket, string and pipe. We have been practicing drumming in time with Kofi’s beat and have been working
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MONDAY Mathematics project and provocation workshops Projects and provocations Handwriting / guided reading / modelled writing Specialist class: Green group – Visual Art Yoga and Library TUESDAY Projects and Provocations Shared reading & letter study / Letter study & handwriting / guided reading Specialist classes: Blue Group: Phys Ed Green Group: Italian Red Group: Art Mathematics project
Numeracy We had an exciting week in numeracy in the 5/6 neighbourhood. We revised our 2d shapes and then used the computer language scratch to generate code, which would draw some of them. Quite a few of our students took up the challenge to write a program, which would instantly generate a regular polygon of