Prep 2022

Grade 1 2022

Grade 2 2022

Grade 3 2022

Grade 4 2022

Grade 5 / 6 2022

IMPORTANT SCHOOL DATES

Important school dates to remember:

Crossing update – Yarra Ranges Council will recommence school crossing operations in-line with foundation students returning to face to face learning on the 18/10.

Curriculum day – Monday 1st November

Public holiday – Tuesday 2nd November

End of term 4 – Friday 17th December – 1.30pm finish

Hello wonderful Badger Creek families,

This week in art students focused on design concepts, looking at the types of graphics they could apply to either a sneaker or skateboard. They used some strategies from the design process to help them develop an idea for their artwork, including brainstorming through mind maps and sketching preliminary ideas before creating a final design.

Our juniors used their favourite place, real or imagined as a starting point for their ideas while our seniors developed individual themes. Students then applied their designs to templates of a shoe or sneaker. Well done to everybody that participated in art this week, I think we have some designers in the making!

Vanessa Imberger

Art Teacher

What an exciting week we’ve had in Year 1/2! We have been getting ready for our return to school by refreshing our memories about our routines and how we do things! Our key word this week has been STAMINA! Stamina is your child’s ability to focus independently for extended periods of time without becoming distracted or giving up. During our live lesson last Tuesday, participants practised writing for at least 20 minutes and brainstormed ways they can prolong their writing stamina including, rereading, editing and revising.

In Reading, we’ve focused on practising our 3 reading types, ‘Read to Self’, ‘Read to Someone’ and ‘Listen to Reading’ to build our reading stamina. We also collated a Home Reading Pack, just like the ones we use at school. We familiarised ourselves with the wide range of books that are available to us including non-fiction and fiction texts. We are also grateful for the vast array of online texts that are available to us, including Sunshine Online.

In Maths, we have investigated Chance through conducting experiments. We used our skills of estimation to first think about our ideas, then we tested our experiments to note our findings! We flipped coins and rolled dice to work out the ‘liklihood’ of rolling/flipping a particular face/number. Our results were fascinating!

In Inquiry, we’ve been learning all about ‘push’ and ‘pull’ and this week, we delved into the world of air. We had the opportunity to test 2 experiments involving water and paper. So much fun! 

We participated in helping to name our new school buildings using traditional, wor-wurrang names. This was indeed an honour for us. We were proud of the way our students conducted themselves during this discussion, and the pride they took in completing this significant task.

Next week in Literacy, we are focusing on responding to texts in Reading, and  continuing to build upon our writing stamina. In Maths, we are learning to combine Chance and our knowledge of numbers together, in a fun game of BUST! Simple games like this one can really help to build our number knowledge including order and place value (hundreds, tens, ones).

We very much look forward to returning to school next Thursday – we CANNOT WAIT TO SEE YOU ALL! We continue to thank all of our wonderful Parents and Caregivers during this time.

Love the Year 1/2 Team 🙂

It’s been another big week of remote learning for the 3/4 students, who have been eager to share all the amazing things they have been up to in their final weeks at home before we return to the classroom. The daily morning check-ins continue to be the highlight of our day, as we see the children connecting with their friends and having some fun with their class. It won’t be long until we can have circle time each morning in our rooms. We can’t wait!

Literacy learning this week has focused on the arc of a story – the way that tension is built towards a moment of climax, and then released as the problem the characters have faced is resolved. It’s been great to see this learning from reading sessions applied by students during writing tasks. One of the most popular activities this week was a creative writing piece where students had to respond to a prompt of being sucked into their computer. It gave students a prime opportunity to build tension as they tried to find a way back into the real world.

This week in maths we have explored the topic of money through several tasks aimed at replicating real-life situations, such as purchasing meals for a family and shopping for Halloween. It’s been great to see the students applying their knowledge of addition and subtraction with decimal numbers to calculate the cost of their purchases and expected change.

What a fantastic effort our 3/4’s have all put in this week. We’re so proud of you all and can’t wait for next week’s learning. Have a lovely weekend!

Hello to all our Fantastic Families,

We hope you’ve all been well and coping with the challenges of returning back to remote learning.

It has been another big week for the Grade Five and Six students as we have started ramping up for a busy Term Four. For Reading, we have been focusing on how to delve deeper into texts as we look for more information and make inferences based on the visual cues we’ve picked up, as well as considering the purposes of providing information to the reader has been from of various authors. In writing, we have been researching a variety of creations and inventions through online research, and have commenced formulating some strong ideas about how to present our findings in ways which are visually stimulating and interesting to our readers.

In Numeracy, we’ve continued focusing on exploring our understanding of number through a range of multiplication activities, with students focused on cementing their skills, understanding and knowledge as they experiment with applying new strategies to solve a range of different types of maths problems. We have been really impressed by so many of our students who have demonstrated their willingness to enter “The Learning Pit” as they put themselves into difficult and uncomfortable situations to challenge their own learning growth.

Finally, for Inquiry, we have combined the research we have been doing for our Writing work with our work on considering how students selected creations and inventions have impacted society as a whole, and what problems or solutions these inventions have addressed. This Scientific Model of Inquiry is something we are continuing to explore more deeply throughout our Inquiry during the term.

On a last note, we hope you have been receiving some of the Green Chronicles through the Compass app, celebrating the amazing efforts of individual students each day. Please keep an eye open for more of these coming through each week.

Regards

The Grade Five and Six Teaching Team