Lunchboxes

WOW!!! 

Look at these amazing lunchboxes that your children have designed and created. Next week they will be conducting an experiment where we will put them in the sun for the day and measure the temperature inside them every hour for the duration of the day. 

Can't wait to see who's lunchbox keeps the coolest!

Science Experiments

Here are some photos of our recent science experiments. We are investigating insulation, conduction

and reflection in readiness for a project where the students will design and make a lunch box that will keep your food cool. We have been collecting and analysing data during our experiments so that we can make informed decisions about what materials to use for our lunch box designs. Keep an eye out for photos of the lunchboxes.

 Recording and graphing the temperature every 10 mins over a period of one hour. 

1 x hot water, 1 x room temperature water, 1x cold water

 Recording and graphing the temperature every 60 mins over a period of one day. 

1 x alfoil, 1 x glad wrap, 1x thermal lunchbox

Mouldy Sandwiches

We put a sandwich into a bag and left it for 3 weeks to see what would happen to it over time. Green and black mould grew on the sandwich making it unfit to eat.

Fireman Incursion

Please enjoy some photos showing you what the children saw during our firemen incursion.

The Year Three cohort enjoyed a very informative incursion from the Fire Brigade last Thursday. The fireman gave the children a talk about fire safety in the home. They covered topics such as stove top safety, using charging devices and heater safety. The children were then treated to a close inspection of fire engine equipment. The firemen demonstrated the jaws of life, breathing equipment and the clothing they use when attending and fighting a fire. What a wonderful opportunity for the children to become more comfortable with our community services. We are so grateful for the wonderful job that our local firemen do and thank them very much for coming to Wattle Grove Primary School.

Welcome to Term 3

Term 3 has begun with plenty of rain but that hasn’t slowed Room 19 down. We are well into the content we need to cover. We have already participated in NAIDOC celebrations with a very informative incursion on how Indigenous people find and use water. The children also did an awesome activity with our buddy class on the Rainbow Serpent, which is on display in the classroom.

As we move into the coming weeks of the term we can expect to cover topics such as;

English

• ·         Reading Strategies – sequencing, concluding, fact or opinion, summarising and main idea. We will be looking at using these strategies in the context of both text and short films.
• ·         Grammar – revising simple, compound and complex sentences and the conjunctions used to write these sentences. Tenses, the use of determiners (a/an), homophones (their/there/they’re, too/two/to, where/wear/we’re, your/you’re, it’s/its) and homographs (bat/bat)
• ·         Punctuation - Using commas for a list of items and for a pause, exclamation marks, question marks, quotation marks, ellipses, apostrophe for ownership and contractions.
• ·         Spelling - phonemes er, age, ry, est, our, ise, ant, age, e, al, ex, a, I, au, ie along with some spelling rules
• ·         Speaking & Listening – Science and HASS presentation that will be prepared during class time.
• ·         Writing – Poetry, writing a Procedure and Explanation

You will find photos of some of the work produced in Literacy already posted on our blog.

Mathematics

• ·         Number and Algebra - fractions, money, addition and subtraction within 1000, multiplication and division (facts of 2, 3, 5 & 10)
• ·         Measurement - time, mapping and directional language, symmetry and angles
• ·         Statistics and Probability - chance

We have begun a Karate times tables challenge where children are encouraged to learn a new times table each week, starting with 2 x tables. If children can master the level they can move onto the next belt. The children will benefit from knowing all their times tables by rote so I encourage everyone to embrace the Karate challenge and work towards the top belt as quickly as possible.

Science

The children will participate in a STEM investigation requiring them to learn about Chemical and Physical Science concepts. They will be using science inquiry skills to complete the investigation. We are currently learning some information necessary to understand the investigation on solids, liquids and gases. You will hear more about the investigation in coming weeks.

HASS

The children will begin studies for the first time, in Civics and Citizenship. We are looking at Government and Democracy followed by Law and Citizens. Children will then participate in an Integrated Project towards the end of the term.

A reminder that Book Week is just around the corner. The date for the parade is yet to be confirmed. We have an incursion coming up with some firemen. Thank you for returning the permission slips so promptly. The athletics carnival is scheduled for Friday August 31^st, weather permitting, with the cross country race scheduled for Friday August 17^th. We also have the Life Education Van coming later this term.

WOW what a busy one! I seem to say that every term!!!

NAIDOC buddy activity

After reading the story of the Rainbow Serpent, we made these awesome pictures together to celebrate NAIDOC Week.

Literacy work

Cinquain Poetry

Short Film Sequencing Activity

 Limericks

 

End of Term 2

Here we are at the end of Term 2. It was a short term but we seemed to fit so much into the nine weeks.

NAPLAN went well. Thank you for your support to ensure all the children were well-rested and calm. Everyone put in their best effort and I am so proud of them.

English

The children have really enjoyed our focus on visual literacy this term. We have used our reading strategies to analyse and comprehend some short films. The children have completed some very meaningful activities to help them get a clear picture of the reading strategies we use to understand and make meaning of text.

They enjoyed having a go at writing some fractured Fairy tales – Fairy tales with a twist! We have also had a dabble with poetry. Some fantastic Cinquain poems are on display at the back of the classroom.

Maths

We have been focusing on measurement in the second half of the term. Length (m and cm), mass (kg and g) and capacity (L and ml). We have been practising converting units of measurement so give your children a little quiz on that next time you cook.

The children have loved playing Numero. I encourage you to play it with your children at home. It’s a great way to improve your child’s mental maths.

Science

Our Science Inquiry was particularly exciting. The children conducted research some high quality research using lots of different sources. Their dioramas were so creative and helped to consolidate understanding of the concepts they discovered about living and nonliving things and how they are affected by climate change and human influences. Their reports are still on display at the back of the classroom so please pop in and have a look. Enjoy the photos below.

The Super Scientist competition was great fun. Thank you for your support to ensure your child was prepared for this activity. I was most impressed at the higher level of achievement in presentation of experiments this year. More children are memorising their talk instead of reading notes which creates a more engaging presentation.

Enjoy a wonderful holiday everyone!