The K/1/2 students have had a great start to the term and are very engaged in their units of learning. 

In Religious Education this term, our unit is linked with Personal Development and Health. The students have been investigating our uniqueness, talents, and passions. They will identify the members of Jesus’ family, identify the qualities of a good friend and describe how we know Jesus loves each of us through our relationships with family and friends. This lens focuses on how we work toward our potential, develop resilience, build healthy relationships with others, and make wise choices, using Jesus as a role model. Socktober was also an exciting part of our learning. We learnt about children in need in Thailand, raised money for these children, and took part in our Socktober Mission Day with a series of soccer ball and ‘sockball’ games and a special liturgy with Father Joe.

 

This term, in English, the students have been focusing on persuasive texts. We have been exploring the structure of persuasive texts, looking at some of the language features of this text type, and why it is important to select high modality words to make our texts more convincing and persuasive. Later in the term we will be looking at information reports and we will learn about the text structure and language used in this type of writing. The writing skills of the students are developing very well!

 

Thus far this term, in Mathematics, the students have been looking at fractions. They learnt to record fractions of objects using drawings, recognise that fractions refer to equal parts of a whole, recognise the relationship of the parts to the whole using pictures and fraction notation, and to recognise when a collection of objects has been shared into halves, quarters or eighths. The students have also been learning about chance and data. This has had the students focusing on interpreting information presented in a data display to answer questions, organising objects or pictures of objects in a data display, recording observations based on tables and picture graphs developed from collected data, and comparing familiar events and describing them as ‘likely’ or ‘unlikely’ to happen.

This term, in Science and Technology, the students have been focusing on identification of light, sound and heat energy, and how they are sensed and produced. The students were invited to use their senses to explore the properties of familiar objects and phenomena, identifying similarities and differences, such as investigating differences between unpopped and popped popcorn. Later, they will infer simple cause and effect relationships from their observations and experiences, including using the sun to melt a chocolate frog. They will also compare observations, using plastic bottle maracas arranged by softest to loudest sound, and learn ways to organise and record observations.

In Japanese, the students have been furthering their Japanese language skills, and have been focusing on learning to describe people and objects with adjectives using colour, shape, and size. They also learnt to draw Mount Fuji using step-by-step instructions and then described their pictures. 

We have much to look forward to as the term progresses. We will be having our annual school photos taken next week. We also look forward to continuing the Kindergarten Transition program and getting to know our new Kindergarten students of 2022, while they get to know us as well!