Room 4

Maths Week at Arbor Grove

During Maths Week, Room 4 participated in a whole school maths challenge – Which is bigger your hand or your foot?  It was up to each student to determine what was meant by ‘bigger’ and how to measure it.  Here we are investigating length, width, perimeter and area using uniform units to measure with. 

The year ones participated in rotational activities.  The students were able to contribute to an activity in each of the maths focus areas – measurement and geometry, number and algebra and probability and statistics.  In Room 4, we looked at using additive counting strategies to collect Lego blocks to build a Lego city.  Here is the class hard at work.

We combined art and maths concepts with our Kambarang garden.  We measured our heights using centimetres and coloured a flower using oil pastels.  We used comparative language such as taller than, shorter than, tallest, shortest and about the same as, to describe the variation in our heights.  Here is our garden.

We have also been investigating the language of chance using will happen, won’t happen or might happen to determine the likelihood of given events.  Here is the finished product.

During literacy sessions, we have been learning about information reports this term.  We worked in small groups to complete a Y Chart detailing a description, the habitat and the diet of the Western Banjo Frog.  Here we are working co-operatively.

Room 6

The Western Banjo Frog

In Talk for Writing Miss Kavanagh has been teaching the students some actions to this non-fiction text, ‘The Western Banjo Frog’. They created the ‘Story Map’ of this text together. Here are some pictures of the students retelling the text using the ‘Story Map’ technique.

The Day the Crayons Quit

We have started looking at “The Day the Crayons Quit’ in Literacy. Here are some pictures of us participating in these activities.

Here are some samples of our recent Art Projects

Our Describing Cats Activity

We have been working hard on using describing words in our writing. In this activity we looked at describing words that we can use to describe a cat. We came up with some terrific words! They then wrote some of these words down around the cat and then coloured in the cat. The more the students are exposed to and are aware of different describing words, the more they will be able to use them in their everyday writing.