Science

This week we continued our investigation into mixtures.

We first revisited last weeks prediction about what certain ingredients would look like once mixed together.

We tested the experiment for ourselves and mixed the three separate mixtures together to test our predictions.

After we created a map about mixtures and investigated when we might use them, where we might find them, why we might make them and how they might feel or look.

Writer’s Workshop

This week we continued our author study into Nick Bland. We discussed text type, and discovered that he always follows a narrative structure when writing his books. We discussed how narratives always follow the same structure – a beginning – which tells us the who, what and where, the middle which always has some kind of a problem and the end where there is some conclusion made, the problem is either solved or not solved and the story ends.

We read ‘The Very Brave Bear’ and after we analysed what the beginning, middle and ending of the story was.

Religion

In Religion this week we talked about the three requirements God has of us….

To act justly, to show mercy and to walk humbly.

We discussed what the three meant and created presentations which show represented our understandings.

HASS

In HASS this week we had a look at how the Indigenous Peoples make stories. We talked about how they use symbols to represent words.

We then looked at many of their symbols and what they mean.

We watched an Indigenous Australian create a story using the symbols, she discussed why she chose to use each symbol and what her story meant.

The children then had a go themselves, writing words on the back of their symbol pictures to articulate their stories.

Word Study

In Word Study this week we continued to look at suffixes, particularly the suffix ‘ing’. We recapped on how last week we learnt that the word has a base and a suffix and we practiced separating the two. We also talked about how the base alone, (eg jump) has one meaning but when we had the suffix ‘ing’ and change the word to ‘jumping’ the meaning of the word changes.

This week we practiced turning the words into word sums, (eg. jump +ing = jumping) we then followed by turning our word into a sentence.

Mother’s Day Crafting

On Friday the children used their creativity to create a card for each and every one of their mothers. They were very engaged in this activity and all put in as much effort as they could for their mums.

Happy Mother’s Day Mums of 2EV. You are all doing an amazing job! Each and every child in our group is wonderful, and we all know that mums play a big role in creating these wonderful children.

I hope you all enjoyed receiving your gifts and cards from the children today.