Dear Parents, Carers and Community Members,
It has been another busy fortnight at Mac Street as we move closer to the midpoint of Term 3. The weeks are certainly flying by, and it has been wonderful to see our students continuing to grow in their learning and confidence.
This week has been full of fun with practicing for our concert item! Don’t forget to get your concert clothes and send them in, in a named plastic bag. We have some wonderful singing voices in our room that’s for sure! In Reading, we have been competing some domain assessments for our Core Knowledge units. In Writing, we are learning about the elements of a narrative and completing some work using a resource called story champs.
In Numeracy, we have completed an assessment and been working to consolidate our understanding of making and saying 2-digit numbers.
This week in Grade 1, we have been very busy!
We are learning all about space and have discovered that Venus is actually hotter than Mercury, even though Mercury is closer to the Sun. We can't wait to learn even more amazing facts about our solar system!
We have also been learning our songs for the concert and have started practising some actions to go along with them. We are having lots of fun getting ready for our performance.
In Maths today, we played a game called "Get Out of My House!" to practise our addition and subtraction skills. It was a fun way to build our confidence while working with numbers!
Week 4 sure has come around quick! Like the other grades, we are well and truly into our concert practise, memorising songs and dance moves. The students are loving rehearsing and before we know it the school concert will be here. In literacy this term the Grade 2 students have been learning to write narratives.
The students have listened to some short stories and analysed the narrative structure - character, setting, problem, feeling, action, ending and end feeling. Last week students used these skills they have been learning in class to write their own narratives about 'The Key'. Each student created their own characters who each had a unique problem to solve.
In the 3/4 room, we’ve been learning all about space. We have learned about the solar system, including the Sun, planets, moons, asteroids and comets.
This week, we have been learning more about galaxies – massive expanses of space which contain all of what exists. We know that the nearest star to Earth – the Sun – is at the centre of our solar system. Yet, as big as our solar system is, it is one of many solar systems that lie within our galaxy. We’ve also learned that galaxies, clusters of many stars, come in three predominant shapes: spiral, elliptical and irregular.
Throughout this term we have been learning about space. We began looking at the Sun, Moon and planets we then moved on to learning about eclipses. We discussed both solar and lunar eclipses and why they happen. Last week we learned about the phases of the moon, a moon phase is a stage in the repeating, predictable pattern of change in the Moon’s appearance from Earth. We drew a diagram to represent the different moon phases.
Over the last fortnight we also began to practise our item for the school concert. We have cast our main roles as well as the main roles within our class item. There will be communication home with more information over the coming weeks.
We have thoroughly enjoyed breaking our days up with some impromptu singing practise.
In Maths we have been looking at using distributive property to solve 2, 3 and 4 digit multiplication equations. By using distributive property, we can solve large multiplication equations with ease!
Last Tuesday, our Foundation students celebrated an exciting milestone - 100 days of school!
To celebrate, the students came dressed as if they were 100 years old and they looked amazing! They had lots of laughs seeing everyone’s creative costumes, grey hair, glasses and walking sticks as they transformed into our “100 year old” students for the day.
The children enjoyed a fun filled day of activities and learning experiences all centred around the number 100. It was wonderful to see them celebrating how much they have grown, learnt and achieved in their first 100 days of school.
Our afterschool Aus Kick Program is proving to be quite successful on a Monday from 3:30pm – 4:30pm. If students did not get a chance to participate this term there is a possibility the program will run again next term. Stay tuned!
Next Wednesday at 9am, Year 3-6 Girls will have the opportunity to participate in
Basketball Victoria’s FREE girls-only Skills, Fun and Play clinic. This clinic is a fantastic way for schools to engage girls who love basketball, or those keen to give it a go for the first time.
For girls in grades 3-8, this is a non-competitive opportunity to develop basic basketball skills from qualified Basketball Victoria coaches. Coaches will run the clinic for girls of all abilities, giving them an opportunity to try basketball in a fun and welcoming environment.
Happy Birthday to all students who will celebrate their birthday in the coming days/ week.
