K-2 Phonics
K-2 students have been working hard on learning their letter sounds, blends and using them to decipher unknown words. Today year 2s enjoyed a fun but educational game of twister, which brought lots of laughter.
Book Week Celebrations
Yesterday was our first Book Week Celebration. K- 2 students read a variety of books and wrote descriptions of our character in writing. Whilst 4- 6 enjoyed a conference call with the very funny and great author, Andy Griffiths. (Teachers couldn’t let the students have all the fun!)… Read more Book Week Celebrations
Friday Cooking – Pizza 🍕
Last Friday for our fortnightly cooking, we made pizza. For our dough we made a basic pizza base using two parts self raising flour one part Greek yoghurt. Needing and rolling until the base was formed. Then we topped the bases with pizza sauce, cheese, capsicum, salami, baby spinach, pepperoni, cheese, ham, and cabonnosi. The… Read more Friday Cooking – Pizza 🍕
Compound Words
Last week students in K-2 focused on compound words. As described by Bonnie (Kindergarten), “compound words are two smaller words that are put together to make a bigger word like sun + flower = sunflower”. K- 2 students are enhancing their vocabulary, progressing nicely and achieving various learning goals.
Wrapper Free Wednesday
Wrapper Free Wednesday was a hit! All students consumed a variety of fresh produce and home made items which was great to see. Students enjoyed the experience and commented that they would like to do more, so stay tuned.
Wrapper Free Wednesday
This term K-2 students are examining the effects of rubbish within our environment. Students have been practicing the correct method of disposal at school and as a result they have observed the amount of non-reusable wrappings in their lunchboxes. On Wednesday 17th August, ALL students are encouraged to use fresh produce and containers to create… Read more Wrapper Free Wednesday
Volleyball
For the past 4 sport sessions we have been learning the skills of volleyball with Adrian from Spike Zone. So far we have mastered the dig shot, spike, the set shot, blocking and are in the process of learning returns. All students have thoroughly enjoyed this experience and we thank Adrian for his time. Whilst… Read more Volleyball
Technology
This term in technology Kindergarten and Year 1 are exploring the features of paint and Story Maker to create, edit and publish a story about themselves and their family. Whilst Year 2 students are refining their abilities to create, research, edit and publish an informative PowerPoint presentation on Natural and Built Environments. These tasks at… Read more Technology
Creativity.
Over the last couple of weeks we have made up a dance for our end of year school presentation night. Yesterday we were dancing for a whole hour trying to figure out some dance moves. So far we have got into the song “Can’t Stop The Feeling” by Justin Timberlake. Some of our favourite dance… Read more Creativity.
Reading Groups
This term K-2 students identified they would like to improve their reading and writing abilities. Students have been participating in a variety of activities to help enhance their vocabulary, phonemic awareness and word recognition. Students are able to apply appropriate strategies to decipher unknown words and all students accuracy of reading high frequency words has improved. All students have… Read more Reading Groups