IMPORTANT SCHOOL DATES

Important school dates to remember:

Prep – Grade 4 Author visit – Friday 19/11

Grade 5/6 Day Camp – Candlebark Farm – 22/11

Grade 1/2 Swimming details – TBC

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

2022 Dates:

Grade 5/6 Urban Camp – 2/2/2022 – 4/2/2022

Grade 3/4 Camp – 9/2/2022 – 11/2/2022

This week has been an exciting week for Badger Creek Primary.

After school each week the library has been open for our Book Fair.

There has been a lot of excitement from the students and Mrs. Miller to finally have a Book Fair back at Badger Creek.

I know there has been a lot of students and parents visiting and purchasing some very exciting books and toys.

At the moment, we have been amazed in raising in excess of $4000.

Thank you to our beautiful families for participating in the Book Fair this year.

The last night of the Book Fair will be tonight from 3.30pm (12/11).

Welcome Badger Creek Families,

It has been such a long time since our students have been able to have their art lessons onsite and to be given the opportunity to use a range of art making materials. So, you can imagine the joy I felt being able to welcome back all year levels to our specialist program this week.

Inspired by Eric Carle and his book Mister Seahorse, our preps put on their smocks and got their hands covered in paint as they experimented with making their own painted paper. They focused on the art elements of line and texture creating beautiful papers that they will use as part of a seahorse collage next week.

Our grade 1/2 cohort continued an artwork they had previously started inspired by Pablo Picasso’s drawing El Coq. They applied oil pastel to their drawing of a rooster, focusing on the technique of blending and the use of analogous colours. Next week they will paint backgrounds looking at mixing colours with white to create tints.

The 3/4 classes explored the Mexican celebration Day of the Dead, and began designing their own skulls using the style and colours attributed to these festivities. Next week they will create a three-dimensional skull using felt and beads.

Finally, our grade 5/6 cohort had the opportunity to glaze their clay chameleons. They have been patiently waiting to finish this project for quite some time. I look forward to sharing photos when they come out of the kiln.

Enjoy your week

Vanessa Imberger

Art Teacher

Music News

Greetings to our wonderful school community,

It is so brilliant to have the students back at school singing, dancing and making music together. We have had a wonderful time preparing for our whole school dance party. We are also preparing some music for Christmas and the end of year celebrations.

Our prep students have shown themselves to be stellar singers and dancers and are learning to sing Jingle Bells and to play the rhythm of the song on percussion instruments.

Our grade 1/2 students have been creating their own dance sequences and practicing some rhythm reading, as well as singing Christmas songs together.

Grade 3/4 are learning to play the song, Pack Rack, by Australian musician, Mal Webb. The lyrics are very funny and we have had a great time singing them!

Grade 5/6 students are creating their own remix of the Christmas classic, Jingle Bells. We have also been learning about the history of this ubiquitous carol.

Instrumental music lessons are back in full swing and we are delighted to welcome our instrumental teachers, Mima, Jared, Alan and Jamie back. They are such an important part of our community, our students are delighted!

Have a great week everyone,

Ms. Legg

Music Teacher

It is great to be able to teach Physical Education at school again. There were smiles all round and squeals of delight as games were played and sports equipment got used for the first time in a long time! Physical Education lessons are on a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, please ensure your child has appropriate footwear on their specialist day so they can safely join in the fun!

A big thank-you to Mr Pitt’s for organising lots of new equipment for the school. We will be setting up some sports equipment for each year level to borrow at play times. It will be the children’s responsibility to bring the equipment back after play to ensure it is available for others to use.

“The Preps have truly learned that hard work pays off. And this has been clear to see as they have seamlessly rebuilt their stamina for learning (and some). Speaking of, the Preps have been doing some next level learning this week…

We have been continuing our amazing efforts in Reading as we keep practising our reading goals.

Our SMART spelling word of the week was ‘teacher’. We did such a fab job at drawing our teacher.

In Maths, we delved into 10 and some more to reconsolidate our knowledge of teen numbers. We’re experts at teen numbers now! And our teen number work books prove it!!

In Writing, we have been working on our own narratives. Gosh we’re excited to share this one with you all. We won’t tell you anymore about the amazing characters/settings/plots that have been included in our stories and leave you in suspense.

Inquiry was super informative, as we discovered a few things about the different roles ‘air’ plays in force and movement. The helicopter experiment showed us that, after dropping the helicopters, the air comes up and pushes off the blades, enabling the autorotation.

That wraps up our week. We are exciting to keep the amazingness going next week. Thank you for all your care and support with our Prep Community. With tomorrow being ‘World Kindness Day’, we are reminded of all the kindness we see each day from all of you and your gorgeous littlies!”

How did we get to W6!! What a whirl! 

This week in Year 1/2, we’ve been working on continuing to build stamina and providing evidence of our learning across all areas.

In Reading, we have used sentence stems to engage student thinking, e.g. ‘The main character felt…’ or ‘The author wrote this book to…’. We are also focused on our own CAFE Reading goals, that are displayed in our classroom settings. Check out our photos that show us ‘buckling down’ and working hard! In Writing, we’ve been working on writing in full sentences, complete with capital letters and appropriate ending punctuation. Some students are also focused on sounding out their words, writing down the sounds they hear. Last week, some students chose to write about Halloween – take a look at some of our work!

Next week we look forward to focusing on our Writing goals. We’re also pushing forward with our Smart Spelling routines. We can’t believe how much it’s helping us spell accurately and build new vocabularly!

In Maths, we’ve been showing our understanding of division through sharing. Some students have used materials such as blocks or counters to share, while others have been applying their knowlege of multiplication or showing their understanding through drawing the problem. Check out our photos! Next week, we are moving into fractions, incorporating fractions of shapes and collections.

We are excited by our Inquiry topic, as we’ve designed our own toys! We are putting a SHOUT OUT to all our families, for any useable materials you may have lying around at home, e.g. bottle tops, boxes, wool, string, ribbon etc. We look forward to seeing our designs come to life!

Please note that as part of our Curriculum, next week we will begin a Wellbeing unit on body safety. This course includes discussions about being safe, learning from your body and what it’s telling you, and words to use when we feel unsafe. Your child may come home and speak to you about these discussions. Please feel free to be honest and open with your children, as we are. If you have any questions or would like to touch base with your teacher about this unit of work, please don’t hesitate to do so.

We’ve noticed many Reading satchels are not making their way to school. We kindly ask that you assist your child to pack their satchel, everyday. This way, children are able to access books whenever they require new ones. To add a bit of fun into the mix, the class who brings ALL their satchels first, will get a class reward!!! I wonder which class can do this the quickest…

Have a wonderful weekend and we look forward to an amazing W7!

“It’s been a busy time in 3/4 this week! Students loved the chance to get their mini wheels out for Roller-Rama on Tuesday, with skateboards, scooters and rollerblades hitting the basketball court at recess and lunch. Their responsibility and care with their wheeled devices have opened Roller-Rama to senior school students, with the 3-6s getting the chance to hit the court on Tuesdays.

Students were excited to get back to a regular week and have their first specialist lessons in person for the week. The 3/4 cohort had a blast on Wednesday heading back to their music, art, and P.E.  lessons.

In reading our class goal is to build stamina. We are all working on increasing the amount of time we can sit still and tune into the book we are reading. Students have been tuning into authors purpose within the texts they are reading. Thinking deeply and answering questions such as why did the author write this, and what does the author want the reader to learn or experience? It is great to see student’s think deeper about the texts they love, and the possible reasons behind their creation.

In writing we are continuing to learn about paragraphs and the function they serve to help the reader. We have been learning how the change in time, topic, place, or person can mean the beginning of a new paragraph, and students have been encouraged to think about how they can use paragraphs in their own writing. Ask your child about TiP ToP! We aren’t talking about the bread.

Our maths unit on angles continues to be a hit, with students exploring angles in and out of the classroom. Students have been using various measuring tools to identify acute, obtuse, and right angles, with many students challenging themselves to include straight angles and reflex angles in their work.

Forces continues to be a focus in 3/4 with students this week learning about friction and the role it plays in the world around us. Students explored the importance of friction and played a game of friction tiggy.

Congratulations 3/4’s on such an amazing week. We are so proud of your hard work and getting through your first 5 days of school in a VERY long time!”

Hello to our Amazing Grade 5/6 Families!

It’s been a hectic week for our senior students this week as they’ve adjusted to being back in school for their first full week. We’ve been so proud of their diligence and efforts in making adjustments to learning in classroom environment again whilst negotiating their needs and expectations with their peers. Great effort Champions!

For Reading this week, we have focused our attention on the various Language Features used by authors, and why they make the choices to use these different features to impact a reader. Students have been examining these in greater detail with a view to implement these into their own writing.

In Writing, students have explored how to improve their writing through the higher order use of paragraphs to segment their work into key components and ideas. In addition to this, we have been examining Figurative Language and how students can utilise this to improve their connection with their audience.

For Maths, we have continued our focus on division and how to apply a variety of mathematical strategies using division to solve different types of problems. Students have been challenging themselves to enter The Learning Pit as they have actively worked on extending their own understanding of Division principals.

Finally, for Inquiry, we have taken a small detour this week to focus on the importance of Remembrance Day, as students have explored their understanding of the event and what it means to them.

Warmest Regards

The Grade Five and Six teaching team.

Here at Badger Creek we have some very creative students.

Ella in our grade 3 / 4 area was creative and decided to make this beautiful unicorn from scratch.