4A have settled back quickly into our daily school routines after returning from the Christmas Holidays. Students are doing a wonderful job of following our classroom rules and the school’s expectations and have been working hard towards understanding new concepts in all learning areas.

In English we are working on our comprehension skills as we look at Traditional Stories from all over the World.  

In HASS we continue to learn about James Cook’s first Endeavor Voyage to Australian and how he claimed it to be Terra Nulla (land belonging to no one). We are also learning about what changes occurred and what stayed the same for the Aboriginal People.

In Science we are learning about forces and will be creating our own 60 second game that requires forces to be used. We had great fun making friction frogs and testing different materials for their friction properties. This knowledge is also used in Technology as students learn about the impact of forces and how materials can change the force of an object. Students will be making a Pinball Machine in Term 2 as their assessment for Technology.

In Math we have already learnt about symmetry and completed our first part of an Assessment Task for the Term. We have now started to look at interpreting simple maps and will continue to learn our multiplication and division facts.  

Overall we have had a wonderful start to the year implementing Kagan Co-operative learning Startegies and The Resilience Project into our daily routines to ensure we are all engaged happy learners.      

Students working in their Resilience Journals and showing their Character Strength boxes