An encouraging few weeks of hard work has everyone settled into Yr 6 routines, knowing what learning tools are needed to have in advance for each session so we are ready to learn asap!

We had a valuable session on Tuesday, talking about TRUST and RESPECT in relation to each other, our friendships and with different teachers. The students journaled their thoughts and were quite mature during circle time to share any ideas. Great teambuilding activity!

In ENGLISH our focus is on improving sentence and paragraph structure; to include more complex phrasing, descriptive language and use of conjunctions. Our “Word of the Day” is extending each students use of vocabulary and consolidating their understanding of synonyms, antonyms, as well as exploring the meaning of words.  We have been using an online thesaurus to assist with this. Each week we are building our research skills to enhance writing Informative texts, I have certainly seen each student improve their setting out and depth of information being researched.

In MATHS learning we have reviewed the importance of estimating and rounding large numbers to help use mental strategies to work out different problems. This week we have investigated Length and most students can confidently convert the units of mm, cm, m, km into different quantities.   In RELIGION we are continuing to discuss and research modern day prophets and inspirational people who have a strong message in our world today.  The next step is connecting these messages to how we live our lives out at St Josephs and how they connect to the message of Jesus. Many students have offered very insightful suggestions about this.  Some people being researched are Pope Francis, Mother Teresa, Steve Irwin, Kobe Bryant.

Our learning about Federation in Australia has been interesting and informative.  We have made a timeline of these historical events and learnt many key words to help us understand this important time. We have looked at the visual maps of when each state of Australia was introduced and the major changes in Australia in these early years.  Do you know who the first Australian Prime Minister was???

So lots going on…lots of positive discussions and sharing of ideas.  The students are continuing to enjoy icebreaker games to give us a break from curriculum learning, these games encourage others to be brave, be accepting and to learn more about each other while having fun!