Mac St News - Friday 23rd August 2024
Principals Report
Dear Parents, Carers and Community Members, We have reached the midpoint of Term 3, and it has been lovely to see some Spring weather bathing us in sunshine. It has been another busy fortnight at Macarthur Street. Our Grade 5/6 students have had their ARDOCH buddy come for a school visit. They proudly took their buddy around the school and explained the rich history that our school has. Our Grade 1 to 6 students went to Science Works for an excursion, this left the Foundation students at school to steer the ship. They loved being the ‘big’ kids for the day and having the playground to themselves. All classes have had their first of four gymnastics lessons at Ballarat Gym Sports. They worked on various skills such as: balancing on beams, floor work and jumping on trampolines.
Our Foundation friends this week have embarked on an adventure to Ballarat Gymsports where they learned lots of different gymnastic skills.
They were definitely exhausted when they came back! In Reading this week, we are continuing to read decodable words with 4 sounds. In Writing, students are expanding sentences involving a when and where.
We are practicing being able to orally share our sentence and will move to writing these sentences next week. In Maths, students have been learning a few different skills, counting collections of 20, reading time to the hour, and identifying differences between two collections and amounts.
We are all very excited for our book week dress up on Friday!
Last week Grade 1/2 enjoyed some time in the sun. For Maths, students had been learning about capacity.
They learnt that capacity is the amount that an object can hold. Students investigated containers of different sizes and shapes in the sandpit by filling them up and seeing what holds more, what holds less or what holds the same amount.
Some results were obvious and some were surprising! We ended the week with our excursion to Scienceworks which was both fun and educational.
Students had the chance to explore how light works and what creates electricity in the lightening room.
This week in the 3/4 room, our Maths focus has been ‘Area’. Area is the amount of space taken up by a surface, such as a shape, object or land.
We also learnt about the different between area and perimeter. Furthermore, we used both informal and formal methods to measure the area of certain objects.
This included using Post-it notes to measure objects around the room (informal) and square centimetre tiles to calculate area of 2-dimensional shapes (formal).
5/6S were really getting hands-on with Maths by exploring fractions and decimals using shaded 100s grids.
The highlighters seem to be a big hit, making the learning process both fun and visually effective.
Writing the fractions and decimals according to the shaded parts of the 100s grid was even easier as a result.
Students birthday
Happy Birthday to the following students who have celebrated their birthday over the holidays or will celebrate it in the coming days.
- Makayla
- Summer
