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Prep	This term in Science we are learning about the movement of objects. We are focusing on roll, slide, bounce and spin. The children will use their knowledge of materials and their properties when considering why things move the way they do. In HASS we are learning about caring for special places and what happens when a special place is not cared for. The children will look closely at four different areas in and out of the school grounds and discuss ways to care for each of them giving examples.
Year 1	Year 1 have been continuing their work on procedural writing. We have written procedures on How to make a sandwich, how to plant a seed, how to make popcorn and how to make wombat stew. We are making sure that we are using the appropriate structure to set up our procedures. In mathematics we are revising our addition and subtraction strategies to solve a variety of word problems. We are investigating sound in science and experimenting with how to make sounds louder or softer.
Year 2	Year 2 have been busy bumping up our procedure writing. We are having fun describing eyeballs and frogs legs to add to our disgusting recipes. We can tell you that our second break begins at “quarter past one” because in Maths we have been learning time to the quarter to and quarter past. During HaSS, we found our classmates’ special places on google maps and discovered that we have family all over the world! In science, we are talking about how important sustainability is so we can take care of these special places.
Year 3	Year 3s have begun writing their first quatrain poem for their poetry portfolio. They are very excited to share some of these with the Prep classes! In science, we have had some fun exploring different states of matter and how liquids can turn into a solid. Our fast facts in multiplication are rocking our world at the moment in Year 3. We are getting super good at fast recalling our times tables and having some fun too by racing each other in teams to complete the facts first!
Year 3/4	We are examining sustainability concepts in our HASS lessons, and we are using this information in our persuasive writing in English. We are now looking at the persuasive language features in more detail to bump up our paragraph writing. We are investigating friction and magnetism in our Science lessons for the Grade 4s and states of matter for the Grade 3s – playing games and making ice blocks doesn’t sound like learning ...but we are! Time is still ticking away in Mathematics- our test on clocks and duration of time is coming soon.
Year 4	Year 4s have finished time and are now investigating perimeter and area in Maths. In HaSS, our focus is sustainability. We are learning how to protect our environment for our future. Playing our 60-second games in Science are teaching us about forces, such as push/pull and magnetism! We are revising our high modality words in English, so we can be more persuasive (watch out parents!)
Year 5	Year 5 have finished reading ‘Storm Boy’ and are excited to look at the similarities and differences when compared with the movie this week. In Mathematics, we are moving away from decimals into fractions and percentage. In HASS, we continued looking at Australian communities and enjoyed learning about the roles and responsibilities of police, custom officers, judges and lawyers.
Year 5/6	In Year 5/6, students have been looking at the visual elements that make up advertisements. These elements may include; salience, framing, power corners, placement, camera angles, fonts, images and colour. We have viewed a variety of print advertisements and discussed what has made them effective. We are excited for the opportunity to construct our own advertisements.
Year 6	Year 6 students have been busy looking at the persuasive features that help compose still advertisements. We have focused on visual features this week, especially the importance of colour, images and how vectors are created in the placement of objects in print ads. We are learning how to explain the persuasive elements of advertisements and analysing a range of different ads. This week, we also started lessons to help us transition to high school.