Wendy’s Group Week 3 Term 1

Hi everyone.

Photos from craft this week show the diversity of art activities that engage our children! Mosaic making, drawing and painting in various media, candle making, beading on a loom and paper making have all been recent art room offerings. Interestingly, we’ve heard that several of our alumni who finished year 12 last year are heading to National Art School in Canberra this year. I’m sure the early nurturing of their creativity and the variety of art activities they enjoyed at Currambena has played a significant part in their artistic development.

In our group week, we have continued to read “Blueback” by Tim Winton and look at some of the ways he uses language to achieve his literary effects. Figurative language, specialist vocabulary and different sentence structures engage the reader in a variety of ways. In Maths, we have dived into angles, measuring and constructing, coordinate number plane pictures and solving word problems to do with length.

We also had our first session on our joint WATER theme with Jess’s group and that was great fun. We watched a film about the water cycle and watched a demonstration of melting ice and turning it into steam which we felt condensing back into water on our hands. It was quite dramatic when the block of ice first went into the hot pan …a burst of steam rose into the air and the sound of sizzling was quite loud.

Our regular spelling and times tables practice sessions on Wednesday went well. It’s great to see all the children settling into the routines and competently organising themselves.

In Class Meeting this week, we began talking about camp at Castle Mountain in week 6. You should all have received an email about this. It’s all very exciting and we’re looking forward to it.

A couple of reminders: Please make sure the children all have named wide brimmed hats at school each day, please also make sure they all have plenty of healthy lunch, preferably without any single use plastic involved and lastly, please encourage each child to read every day and to practise times tables aloud with you. They should be able to tell you what they’re currently working on.

That’s all from me this week. Have a good one!

Love,
Wendy