Term 2 Week 4

This week in Literacy 
Students will be self assessing their fluency in reading by recording themselves using Garage Band and reviewing this. Teachers will also be assessing students fluency using these recordings. We will be learning how to skim read a text to identity key words and information. In writing, students will continue to write persuasive texts using the features they have learnt over the last few weeks such as emotive language, rhetorical questions and generalisations.

This week in Numeracy 
We are designing floor plans of our own museums which we will later use to make a scale model of the museum.  The focus will be on calculating the area, multiplying and how to draw a 'birds eye view.'  In their designs students will use a key to show the different exhibits, find the area and perimeter of the different areas and use labels to show doors and windows. In target sessions students will use place value partitioning to solve addition and subtraction problems as well as other focuses appropriate to student need.

Inquiry Focus
Through our inquiry we have been exploring museums as a way for communities to store and share important knowledge. We have formed a close connection with Melbourne Museum through their education officer Cameron. He has visited the neighbourhood on several occasions to help the children develop their understanding of museums and we have connected with him via video conference on several occasions to engage in virtual tours of the museum.

Currently we are exploring the idea of creating our own Princes Hill Primary School museum. We are exploring what is unique and special about our school community to create possible exhibits for our museum. Students are planning to persuade the neighbourhood that our PHPS Museum should contain their exhibit and the students will share their ideas with the neighbourhoods.

Connecting with Melbourne Museum

In order to develop our understanding of museums we have been video conferencing with Cam, the education officer at Melbourne Museum. Cam has been showing us around the museum, talking to us about why the museum is set up the way it is and answering our questions. These conferencing sessions, along with our planned excursions, will help us to develop our own exhibits.

 

Our Princes Hill Primary School Museum

After spending some time exploring what we know about museums and how they work, we are interested in exploring what could contribute to a museum that was dedicated to our school. This week students are being asked to think about what is special or unique about our school and how that could become part of a school museum.

Action Required: Excursion in the first week of term 2

Hello everyone, what a busy, albeit short, term it has been.

Action required

Some students received an notice on Friday for an excursion to Melbourne Museum in the first week of term 2. These excursion notices must be returned by Wednesday the 25th of March.

All students will be included in excursions of diverse experiences throughout the inquiry that can be shared with the rest of the neighbourhood.

See you in the neighbourhood.

Maths Home Learning

We have now added a link in 'Numeracy Links' on the right hand side that has a resource of activities you can use to develop maths concepts for home learning.

Please have a look with your child.

Here is another link for good measure!

Circus Skills Workshops

This week marks our second session learning the ins and outs, ups and downs, round the bends and through the hoops of the circus with our friendly expert Sam.  Today saw the children practicing their juggling skills, playing with 'Devil Sticks" and 'Poi' spinning before moving onto some simple acrobatic manoeuvres in pairs.  Trust us, it's all much harder than it looks!

Welcome to 3/4 2015!

Hello and welcome!
 
The 3/4 Neighbourhood blog is our main way to communicate with the 3/4 neighbourhood community.
 
We are doing things a little differently this year and each post will have an indication of
what you can expect each post to be about in the title.
 
Here are the parameters through which all blog entries can be categorised;
 
·      Action required - this may be excursion notices, notes regarding SunSmart hats or other important information.
·      What’s happening - this will inform you of the week ahead, some of the learning and the focus for the following week.
·      Learning experiences - this will provide some ideas of what the students have been engaged in and also functions as a celebration of learning.
 
At the top right side of the Blog you will find a 'subscribe' to receive updates when posts are
published. Please spread the word for parents who may not have subscribed yet - but we have transferred any subscribers last years Year 2 blog over so those people should still be receiving updates.
 
You will also find useful links and information.
 
That's enough information for now - the blog is currently being updated from 2014 so there will be changes happening as we move through the next few weeks.
 
Looks like it is going to be a great year!!
 
See you around the neighbourhood
 
Keith, Melinda, Robert, Laura and Nic