On Monday 27th of June our class and Ms Di’s Foundation class visited the Adelaide Zoo. This was a great opportunity to bond with our CAT buddies and learn about the different animals and the environments they live in. We all worked in small groups and we were partnered with our Foundation buddy. Being with… Read More Adelaide Zoo Excursion
To finish off the end of Term we have been focusing on Money in Maths. Mrs Baldwin has been providing us with mental routines to begin each lesson followed by a problem solving activity. Mental Routine The mental routines develop our maths vocabulary and also allow us to use our prior knowledge to answer questions.… Read More Money, Money, Money!
National Reconciliation Week is celebrated across Australia each year between 27th of May and the 3rd of June. The dates represent two significant milestones in the reconciliation journey. 27th of May – Marks the anniversary of the 1967 referendum which gave the Commonwealth the power to make laws for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples… Read More Reconciliation Week 2016
The last few days we have been practising short division both with and without remainders. This has been a learning experience for EVERYONE because some of us had never seen or done short division before and others of us had done some in the past but could not recall the exact steps to complete them.… Read More Divisibility Testing!
Our class have really enjoyed our latest Art activity involving tin foil. To begin with Mrs Baldwin gave us a plastic sheet and we had to draw a design using lead pencil. We then used string and glue to stick the string along all the lines. Once they were dry we then stuck aluminium foil… Read More Tin Foil Art
Over the last few weeks we have been continuing our conversations and reflecting on the importance of having a growth mindset in everything we do. Here are some of the activities we have been doing at school this term to help us with having a growth mindset! Class Novel: Fish in a Tree Mrs Baldwin has… Read More Connecting Growth Mindset with our learning
In Room 10 our class participate in the Daily 3 every Tuesday – Friday where we focus on different reading and writing choices for each group to complete. To complement this program we will now be looking closer at different reading strategies using a program called the Daily CAFE. Daily CAFE will help us understand… Read More The Daily Cafe – Reading Strategies
This term our genre topic we are learning about is persuasion. We started by looking at many different persuasive advertisements. We worked in pairs and we chose one advertisement to answer some questions about the techniques that the company used to persuade us with. The questions we answered were: Who created it? For what purpose?… Read More Persuasive Advertisements
Our science topic for this term is called Material World. In this topic we have been learning about: the properties of materials and how they relate to use how to test the properties of materials fairly and how to use this knowledge to choose materials wisely. Which materials have desirable properties but have less impact… Read More What properties does this material have?
We have begun this term learning about multiplication in math’s. Multiplication is… A mathematical operation performed on a pair of numbers to get a third number called a product. In simple terms it is repeated addition. eg: 4 x 3 = 12 4 lots of 3 = 3 + 3+ 3+ 3 = 12 We… Read More What is multiplication?