Week 6’s language of the week was Dinka. Dinka is spoken in Southern Sudan along with other languages.

At Holy Family,  we are lucky to have a number of Dinka speakers.

Matthew and Ayok Mel

Tina Deng

Nguet Deng

Emmanuel Deng

Anyuat, Atong, Awur and Akur Deng.

Also, Francis Deng and Deng Maliul.

What’s happening in R/1 CM and R/1 MC ?

The students have been writing their own diary books based on the text “Diary of a Wombat” by Jackie French

Open the link below to see  Tauya’s creation ! Great imagination everyone! Well done!

Mr Wallace

sharks

It’s been quite exciting for Mrs Volkov’s and Mrs Tunbridge’s class.

Last week they launched their rockets which they built in class.

Check out the short video!

It was a blast!

They also wrote short explanations to explain how the rockets work.

They used words like: air pressure, direction, nose cone, stabilise

Amazing stuff!!

Week’s 4 language is Amharic!

Here are some of our students who speak Amharic.

Amharic is spoken by over 60 million people worldwide and it is one of the main languages in Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is also known for its long distance runners.

Mrs Volkov’s and Mrs Tunbridge’s class are off to Parafield Airport next week.

They’ve also been learning about flight!!!

They have just made some water powered rockets which will be launched this Friday at 10.00am on the oval. Anyone can come and watch!

What have they learnt so far………………………..?

Drag

Air flow

Thrust

Air pressure

Some new words?

hover

stream lined

turbulence

What’s next?

More experiments that will help us understand how things fly

Writing explanations  – to explain how a plane or helicopter or hot air balloon flies! It’s your choice!

We were thinking of writing expositions, but learning seems to be moving in a different direction. What do you think teachers?!!!!

Starting with this term, we will have a focus on a language every week.  TheBullock Report (1975) stated that:

“No child should be expected to cast off the language an culture of their home as he crosses the school threshold, nor to live and act as though school and home represent tow totally separate and different cultures which have to be kept firmly apart. The curriculum should reflect many elements of that part of his life, which a child lives outside school.”

We would like our students to maintain their home langauge for the many benefits that bi/multilingualism brings.

This week’s language is TAMIL!

Students researched one part of speech and then they shared their learning with the others. Some good examples of listening and respecting the speaker.

This week, the  EAL Team is focusing on levelling ( assessing)  the EAL studets’ English language. We use the Language and Literacy Levels  document which reflects the literacy demands at each level and across all learning areas. It is primarily an assessment, monitoring and reporting document for all teachers, which can also be used to inform programming and planning.

Woohoo! Science is cool.

The Reception /Year 1s have planted out their pea seedlings and are now working on completing an information report. This involved brainstorming then labelling a drawing of a pea plant!! Woohoo!

If you look carefully at Shristi’s plant you can see a small pea pod!

The students continued working  on Parts of Speech today. They were split into eight groups and each group investigated  one part of speech. Each student is to become an expert in that topic to teach the others.

The best part of this lesson was the collaborative learning.

Akash is very proud of his work.