ENGLISH
Since visiting Haileybury Primary in Melbourne at the beginning of this term, I have implemented many new strategies to engage and support children in developing a solid foundation in literacy. As a result, we have had many visitors to our classroom this term to come and observe our amazing Literacy Block. Both the children and I have had so much fun and learned so very much this term. I am so proud of their growth, their excitement and willingness to give each task their very best effort but above all, their focus and commitment. | |
| Ethan with his Literacy Award from Ms. Roberts for showing outstanding | knowledge |
One of the aspects I observed at Haileybury was sentence building. Whilst, I have always implemented sentence building in my Literacy Block, I didn't do it like they did! I loved the concept and knew it was something I wanted to implement as soon as I got back into the classroom. We have worked very hard this term to develop our sentence building skills and the associated grammatical knowledge. How many times have you heard the noun, verb, adjective, adverb, simile or connective chants?
Below are some wonderful examples
We look forward to further developing our English skills in Term 4.
MATHS
Maths is all about PR1ME! I have never seen children get so excited about Maths than when I say it's PR1ME time. We have a range of foci each week. Each concept is introduced by posing a problem to the children relating to the learning objectives. This not only enables me to see what children already know about each concept but, how they problem solve, how they self talk and communicate their thoughts to others. It is quite enlightening. Below you will find photos of children during one of our problem solving sessions. We were about to learn about measuring and the importance of using uniform units to measure. For example, we were not able to get an accurate measurement if we used a range of objects such writing pencils. We found out that each group got very different results due to the fact that each pencil was a different size. Once we began to use uniform units such as unifix cubes, our measurements became much more accurate.
SCIENCE
This term saw us participate in our annual Science Tabloid afternoon (that was rescheduled to the morning due to bad weather). Children in years 1 and 2 came together to experience a range of experiments. Children were separated into groups and got to rotate between four experiments, some of which included: sherbert making, lava lamps, egg drop, coloured milk, and rainbow markers. It was a fun filled morning full of Science talk and excitement.Mrs Campbell ran the Lava Lamp experiment. She took one plastic bottle and filled it almost to the top with vegetable oil, then filled the rest with water. The water sunk to the bottom of the bottle even though we put it on top of the oil! Then we got to drop some food colouring in. The food colouring made little balls and sunk through the oil. When the balls hit the bottom they coloured the water but not the oil. Then Mrs Campbell dropped in some aspirin tablets and the coloured water made coloured bubbles that floated up into the oil. Mrs Campbell put a light underneath. It was AMAZING!!!
ENTERPRISE LEARNING - Student Fete
To celebrate our school turning 100 years old this year our school had a Student Fete. Room 13 decided to have a fishing game with prizes for each winner however, after a 'technical glitch', we decided to make our stall a Lucky Dip. We set about decorating paper bags to place our prizes into. We ended up decorating and filling 100 girl bags AND 100 boy bags! What a huge effort. We were so worried we would have lots of prizes left over after the fete, but hoped we wouldn't. Due to some generous donations, we did not have to apply to the 'bank' (Ms. Roberts) for a loan. In order to ensure our stall ran as a real business would, we had to form committees such as advertising, decorating, clean and pack away and marketing. We also had to develop a business plan to present. The skills we developed as a result, were invaluable.There was a lot of work involved but, we sold EVERY SINGLE ONE of our lucky dip bags and made a whopping $205.00 to spend on resources for our classroom. Stay tuned to find out what we purchase.
The photos below were taken by the talented Leeanne (Taj's mum). Thank you for sharing :)
FACTION CARNIVAL
Congratulations to BLUE for taking out the title!I am very proud of the training and effort everyone in Room 13 put into the Faction Carnival preparation and day. Well done!
What a fun filled, busy term it has been. Have a safe and relaxing holiday.
See in Term 4
Mrs C
