A Christmas story for Kindergarten – Term 4

This term, Year 4 are looking at Australian Geography and History. In particularly, the History of the East Coast. The above resources are useful in our learning….

This term, Year 1-4 classes, students are learning about the difference between Fiction and Non-Fiction books. Here is a good resource to answer this:

This term, Stage 3 are learning about World Geography (using Atlases), including the deepest place on earth: The Mariana Trench. Here are some useful resources…

To help celebrate Bookweek, we have the great fortune of having well known Australian Author Deb Abela visit our school 3-6 grades on August 10. She has written some excellent titles including Grimsdon, Max Remy, Ghost Club and her first picture book: Wolfie. Check out her website below:

https://www.deborahabela.com/

The Short-list BOOKS for the CBCA 2018 have been announced! There are some great titles this year.  Years K-6 will be looking at these closely in Term 3 until the winners are announced so stay tuned….Here is an example of two that have been short-listed:

This term, Year 5 are looking at environmental issues in Geography and sustainability…check out the video about rainforests in Indonesia to start our discussions…

In Term 2, our Year 1 and 2 students will be looking at the Australian author: Leigh Hobbs….

Here he shows us how to draw one of his humorous characters…’Old Tom’.

We will then look at ‘Mr Chicken’ and visit some of the places he visited….

https://knutthelastviking.wordpress.com/category/book-trailers/

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/bookrev/

Year 5 in Term 3, will be creating Book Reviews using the Aurasma App in Augmented Reality. Here is a demo…

https://ed.ted.com/on/dYemMrpW