06 Jun 2013
3/4G
Week 6 is has been and gone. 3/4G has enjoyed getting back to a bit or normality after such a busy week 5 with assessments. Students are immersed in our novel study of ‘The BFG' right now. There have been huge belly laughs that could surely be heard at the office caused by the humorous words in the book.
We have been working hard on book reviews over the past couple of weeks and have produced some pleasing work samples. We recently reviewed ‘The Little Wooden Horse' by Mark Wilson, a book that was all about the first fleet and the conditions the convicts had to endure on their sea voyage. This tied in nicely with our HSIE unit ‘British Colonisation' as it gave us a bit more of an insight into what life was like during those times.
I have enjoyed listening to some fantastic ‘multicultural speaking' presentations over the past two weeks. It was pleasing to hear students draw on both personal experiences and factual information to support their arguments. Well done everyone!!!
Mr Griffith
K/1R
Firstly, I'd like to congratulate all of our K/1R students for the way they engaged and gave their best effort in our semester one assessment tasks. Our Sandon SHINE values were clearly evident in all you have done.
K/1R is learning how to use Thinking partners in class for a variety of tasks. We have enjoyed reading The Gruffalo and journey of a sea turtle during the last couple of weeks. The conversation and discussions around these texts have been rich in developing deeper comprehension skills. The students are enjoying responding to and writing about the Gruffalo and his friends in English sessions.
We hope you enjoyed our presentation of our artworks at assembly today. For those who missed it we have studied the artwork of Asher Bilu. We were inspired by the way he creates multimedia artworks about the elements and after viewing and responding to his piece ‘The forms that swim and the shapes that creep under the waters of sleep', 1988 we created our own under water pieces. We used a variety of materials and discussed the miniature creatures we found in the water at Dumaresq Dam. The artworks produced are fantastic. They are on display in our classroom and will be on display in the office foyer in Weeks 8 & 9.
The athletics carnival is coming up next week, so we will be practising our athletics skills in P.E. this week. We hope to see you there. Have a fantastic week!
Claire Robertson
4/5D
This week 4/5D has had a very small class due to the Stage 3 excursion to Lake Ainsworth. We have studied a very interesting artist to inspire us with our art sessions. His name is Wassily Kandinsky (vas-ily ka-din-skee). He listens to Richard Wagner music to inspire his art. 4/5D has been doing lots of sport, art and Science.
In maths we have been working on our six times tables and are getting really fast. We look forward to another great week at Sandon!!!
By Joshua Parker, Molly Hardey and Haiqal Hashbullah.
Green
Green class has been extremely busy over that past few weeks. We have been learning about wet and dry environments, transport, literary recounts and number patterns. We have also enjoyed creating artworks based on our wet and dry environments unit. Some of our creations have been desert landscapes and hybrid land and water animals. Last week we had a special visitor come to visit green class. Mrs Barker brought her baby kangaroo in for us to say hello to.
Our favourite part of the day is our big book shared reading time. Also in green class we have some aspiring chefs who have been enjoying cooking up a storm! So far they have successfully made mini pikelets and fried rice.
3F
Our class has had a busy schedule this week. Listening to the students Multicultural speeches has been fantastic. The students have put a lot of time and practise into their speeches and have delivered them with confidence and excellent speaking skills.
We are finding our study of Australian history fascinating. We are gaining a better understanding of what life was like in the early days of European settlement and the effects this had on indigenous people.
We are gearing up for next week's Athletics carnival. I am sure the whole class will participate and have fun.
Linda Frizell
KG
Kindergarten has been making wonderful progress in reading! The children all love to read and are always keen to share their books with others. Thank you to all those parents who have been supporting their child with home readers. The opportunity for the children to read with their family is very important and will play an important role in their reading development. If you have any questions about home readers please come and have a chat with us.
We have stared our new science unit ‘What's it made of?' We are investigating our classroom and playground environment to discover what materials we can find. We are looking at the properties of materials such as metal, wood, rubber, glass and plastic.
The children are very excited about our athletics carnival and we hope to see as many parents and carers as possible who have time to come and share the fun with us. If you have not returned your permission note could you please do so.
Carolyn Gadd/ Michele Thomas
2E
We are well and truly over halfway through Term 2 and have had a busy week of assessments.
2E has been looking at synonyms this week and how words change when they become plurals.
In Health we have been looking at how we can keep safe at home. In HSIE we looked at a map of Australia in the Atlas then on their own copies of a map the students coloured in the parts of Australia that are deserts, mountains, grasslands and forests. We also used a key to help locate these environments on our maps.
2E has been learning about multiplication and division in Maths. We used counters to make groups to help us visualise the sums.
We have started our study of an artist for Education Week and are looking at Olive Cotton who was an Australian photographer.
Paul Earl
1/2D
1/2D has been working very diligently this week while Mrs E has been away. In Science, we looked at a mountain and some hills made from sand and predicted what might happen when coloured water was tipped over it – using plastic cups with holes in the bottom of them. This represented rain in the water cycle. Our predictions were correct! The water ran down the side of the mountain and the hills and into the valleys, where pools of water formed.
In HSIE, we read information about rainforests and learnt about the different ‘layers' of plants that grow in them. We read the book ‘Where the forest meets the sea', by Jeannie Baker, and painted magnificent artworks afterwards.
Thank you 1/2D for being such a delightful, helpful and hardworking class! Kathy Rees