Prep 

The Prep students became animal experts for the day on their visit to Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary. There was lots of excitement as we got to see the Tasmanian devils up close, feed the kangaroos, touch a koala and enjoy raptors soaring right over our heads! We are very thrilled to continue our learning on living things during science.  

Year 1 

After watching the spectacular performance Year 2 provided at the last junior assembly, Year 1 are eagerly practicing their dance which we will be performing in Week 8! We are bumping up our writing of retells by adding adjectives and interesting verbs. We are giving directions in Maths and Hass and using our inquiry skills to think about why we do certain activities during the day or at night. Soon we will start constructing a diorama for Science – Don't forget your shoe box! 

Year 2 

During these past few weeks we have been focusing on comparing and contrasting characters from the stories we have read. That means finding how they are the same and how they are different. In Mathematics we’ve been learning about different types of lines and 2D shapes. Looking forward to taking our science learning of Living Things on our upcoming excursion to Nudgee Beach. 

Year 3 

Year 3 students have been learning about sentence fragments and what makes a complete sentence. They have been practising bumping up their sentences to grab the reader's attention. In HASS, students are exploring different cultural celebrations such as Chinese New Year and Diwali. Our Mathematics activities have been focusing on place value beyond 10,000.  

Year 3/4 

We are using the main idea comprehension strategy to help summarise our stories. The fours are writing the complication part of our convict journey and the threes are looking at the vocabulary and language features of Kumiko and the Dragon in detail. We are finalising our understanding of fractions and still working on regrouping in our operations. Fair testing in Science for Gr 4 and in Gr 3 we are ready for our assessment on living things next week.  

Year 4 

Year 4 students and staff have welcomed some baby chickens to our rooms for the last two weeks to link with our Science units. It has been very exciting to watch the chicks hatch and grow! In English, we have begun drafting our historical narratives, focused on a convict’s journey from England to Australia. Our Mathematics activities have been focused on the four operations.  

Year 5 

Year 5 are enjoying learning all about ‘Space’. We have completed a research task and are now in the process of creating 3D paper-mâché planets to hang around our classroom. In English, we are continuing our work on ‘Persuasive’ focusing on TEEL paragraphs and in Mathematics we are tackling ‘Long Division’ (we have learnt a song to help us remember all the steps).  

Year 5/6 

Students in 5/6J and 5/6W have been learning about 30-minute cities and 15-minute neighbourhoods in HASS. This knowledge is helping us brainstorm ideas for improving the sustainability of Craigslea State School’s travel! In Maths, we have started looking at efficient strategies for solving multiplication and division and the conventions for solving equations with more than one operator. 

Year 6 

In Year 6, students have been deepening our understanding of angles by looking at the supplementary and complementary angles and identifying strategies to identify unknown angles around a point. We have also been undertaking some editing lessons to identify how to ‘bump up’ our writing using our marking criteria.