In Art, the year 6-8 students are exploring perspective and landscape drawings followed by portrait painting. Year 3-6 students are also doing perspective and landscape drawings followed with more components of drama. Junior Primary are learning rhythms on percussion instruments and then fabric art using an African style of flour resistance for patterns.

Junior Primary

Junior Primary English comprise of the Read Write Inc program, sharing of morning talks, Heggerty which is a programme of listening for rhyme, sounds and syllables in words, hand writing and reading comprehension. Students have been exploring time with analogue and digital clocks, moving onto collecting and displaying data in Maths. In HASS, we are exploring the world and its continents. For Adnamatna with Karmy, we are exploring cultural stories and doing activities to go with them. Physical Education will be a range of sports day activities and in Health, we are combining growing healthy food in the garden and nice ways to enjoy the produce.

Term 3 begins with calm clarity.  We are enjoying the start to this important consolidation term. 

For English this term, most of my theme planning revolves around The BFG (The Big Friendly Giant) by Roald Dahl.  We read a chapter each Monday to Wednesday.  At the moment we are drawing the landscape around the BFG’s cave home.  We are using all the descriptive language to inform our drawing, and the students are doing such a good job.  In English we are continuing to use VCOP as a way of learning more about writing and how to check on and improve our writing.  You can see an example of my modelled weekend recount.  We use coloured card tabs to focus our learning.  Here we are focused on capital letters and full stops that appear in the text and why we use them.  We are also focusing on improving our use of connectives re the pink tab.

For number in Maths we are looking at Money-Australian coins, number sequences, counting strategies, worded problems using all operations relevant to skill levels, counting, subitizing and problem solving.

For Science we are looking at Natural Resources for the first 5 weeks and then Insects/Mini beasts for the second half of the term.

In Technology -Design we are concentrating on Processes.  We have looked at how balloons are made and you can see a picture of one of the assessments I gave to my years 2s here.  Very interesting.  We have begun learning how marbles are made and will also look at how chocolate is made as a whole class.  Once we have made these new discoveries we will look at designing some Summer footwear and listing out the steps we will take.  Also later in the term we will be learning about making models to show our design ideas.

Have a great term everyone.