It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas in Room 23

It's starting to look a lot like Christmas... The countdown until the Christmas holidays is on! Last Friday, we decorated a Christmas tree for our classroom. It was a lot of fun! In the spirit of giving, Wattle Grove Primary is also taking donations of non-perishable food item for the Hill's Christmas Charity. Thank you to all those families who have already generously donated. Please place any items in the labelled box, located in the Block 3 Wet Area.


 

Festive fun from Tasha

Buoyancy Floats Our Boat

Last Friday afternoon, we performed a science experiment in class, investigating the topic of buoyancy. In teams, students created boats out of foil and placed them in buckets of water. We then added rubber teddies to the boats and counted how many the boat could hold, before it began to sink. 

From this experiment, students developed a better understanding of buoyancy and consolidated their investigating skills. 

Buoyancy from Tasha

Blast from the Past

In HASS we looked at some items from Miss B’s family’s past. We tried to guess what the function of each piece of technology was. We then made connections to items we have in our homes today and discussed how technology continues to change and improve. 

VHS tape

Gameboy Colour

Mobile phone

Measuring cup for pounds and ounces

Hand beater

Audio cassette tape

Maths Update

In Maths, we have been practising our times tables. The Year Twos have been focusing on their 3s and 4s, while the Year Threes have been learning their 6s and 7s. The students have been using the Part, Part, Whole strategy to become familiar with the relationship between multiplication and division sums. They have enjoyed working on multiplication and division word problems with Miss Larkins and Mr Blight. 

Literacy Update

This term, we have been revising key concepts we have learnt this year. We have been particularly focusing on our proofreading skills. We have been working in our teams to proofread passages for spelling and punctuation errors. This fortnight’s spelling rule is around plural nouns. If a word ends in a consonant y, ‘change the y to an i and add es.’ If a word ends in a vowel followed by a y, ‘just add s.’

Assembly

Last Friday we had our figurative language assembly. The students did a magnificent job learning and reciting their parts! Thank you to all the family members who organised such lovely costumes. Congratulations to Georgia, Connor & Sophie on winning a Merit Certificate and to Ava (Values Award) and Thomas (Science Award). Here are some photos for your enjoyment. 

Room 23 & room 24 assembly from Tasha

Identities

During week two, we participated in a “getting to know you” activity. It focussed on how people are all vastly different, but we are also very much similar to one another. The central activity was to form a diversity line, where children were asked to step forwards if they agreed with a statement being read. Students were then divided into small groups where they discussed their similarities and differences and recorded these using a Venn diagram.

Then, during Week Three, the students then completed a follow up lesson, learning about differences and similarities between students in Australia and other countries in the world. The children learnt lots of new things about each other.

Dancing Lessons

Dancing lessons are under way. The students have loved the Slosh and have now learnt the Progressive Jive. Not only have they been learning some spectacular dance moves, they have also been learning the social etiquette for partner dancing. At the end of each lesson, students have been learning choreography for their funky hip hop routine. The students (and all the teachers) have been enjoying these lessons.