The Lakes South Morang College - Issue 08

The Lakes South Morang College Newsletter TEACHING & LEARNING

PRIMARY CAMPUS Throughout Term 2, students on the Primary Campus have been working diligently in English and Maths to continue to develop their literacy and numeracy skills. In Prep, students have been learning their letter/sound relationships, and how to correctly write their letters, while also developing their comprehension skills through daily reading sessions. They have also been practicing their ‘ Magic Words ’ at school and at home. In Year 1 students have been building their number fluency and practicing their addition and subtraction vocabulary through the use of partitioning and number lines. Number patterns have also been investigated and they have LEARNING AT THE LAKES

revised place value to ensure they can confidently use numbers up to 100.

In Years 2 and 3 students have been reading fiction and non - fiction texts, applying letter/sound knowledge when attempting to decode unknown words (Year 2) and developing comprehension skills, asking, and answering literal and inferential questions (Year 3). Students have also been writing within different texts types such as recounts, narratives, poetry (Year 2) and persuasive language/ techniques (Year 3). Year 4 students have been ‘ Investigating Materials ’ during Inquiry and they visited ScienceWorks to consolidate this learning. They have also been comparing 2D shapes and 3D objects, identifying the properties of these shapes and comparing their area and volumes. This has been continued in Year 5 where students have been looking at units of measurement, and calculating, for length, area, volume, capacity and mass. Year 5 students will have also attended an excursion at the Victorian Space Science Education Centre as part of the ‘ Out of Orbit ’ Inquiry topic.

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