Well, I’m back at Hawker Area School but this time with the Year 3-5 class. We have a fairly full agenda of lessons to work on.

English:

In addition to Read, Write Inc for some students, the class will use short stories that are in their workbooks to develop their skills. These range from comprehension, through writing tasks, to grammar. They will also use an app called “Pobble” to use visual stimuli to write short stories or other responses. Their most recent “Pobble” was a glowing globe of the Earth, which provided a stimulus for a great variety of stories.

Maths:

Members of our class are at various stages of developing their mathematical skills. During this term they will practise several tasks, including using spaceships for multiplication; working out areas to estimate the size of house floors, comparing the size of spaces such as paddocks or national parks and calculating the time in different time zones.

Science:

Science will offer class members a chance to investigate our physical world. For Year 3s that involves looking at the transfer of heat. In daily life that’s relevant to the ironing of clothes and the boiling of water. Meanwhile, Year 4 investigates forces of gravity and friction – including a basic experiment in which a weight is pulled or pushed from one place to another. Light and its properties will be the focus of Year 5’s efforts. One of their experiments included comparing the path of light through aligned holes as opposed to misaligned holes.

HASS:

The HASS focus is on Geography during the second semester. This will include how indigenous societies lived within their environments and will compare this with the effects of European settlement on those environments. Central to this will be Australia and a comparison with societies in Africa and South America.

Health/PE:

Our sports in this semester will venture from lacrosse to basketball and, possibly, some other sports later in the year. At the same time, Health will examine aspects of relationships.