Look What Is Happening In The Learning Support Centre

In the Learning Support Centre we are becoming more familiar with using Rosary Beads as we pray for the people in India and other special intentions.

Our Year Six students are preparing to receive Confirmation this weekend.

In the Learning Support Centre we use the Zones of Regulation everyday to recognise how we are feeling and to know what helps us to keep calm and ready to learn. It is important to know this about ourselves.

Amalia likes to escape into a book.

Miguel likes to draw.

Brandyn likes to read Christmas books.

Curtis likes to have a fidget tool in his hands.

Lachlan likes to exercise.

Mitchell likes the oil spiral.

Brain breaks help us to stay focussed. Sometimes we do yoga poses. At other times we do balancing activities or exercises that make us cross over our midline.

We are always ‘filling our buckets’ by cooperating with others and getting our work done.

We also try to be positive people by thinking of something to be grateful for everyday. We are often grateful for our families but some other things we mention are soccer, pets, technology, tools, food and our homes. We are all very grateful to have Mrs Blewitt back working with us!

We work hard to improve our reading and writing skills as well as our communication skills in the Learning Support Centre. In maths lately we have been learning about different strategies to add and subtract. We have been playing cards to help with this.

We always enjoy cooking on Fridays! This term we have made Anzac cookies, sausages and biscuits for Mothers Day.

This term in Amaroo Blue, the students have been highly engaged in imaginative writing. They use images that are magical, unusual and fantastical to inspire them to write.  Their imaginations have been running wild!  

There is some research that supports the idea that boys in particular write more when they choose an image and write about it.  We aim to share these stories within our class once we have written more of these wonderful stories. 

Over the past 2 weeks Amaroo Gold have been working on measuring length in Mathematics. We have been informally estimating and measuring length using a variety of objects such as blocks, string and our handspan in our classroom and playground.

The Science and Technology unit we are learning about in Amaroo is "In The Kitchen: Investigating ways things can change". We are having fun predicting, carrying out experiments and making observations.

One of our experiments has been making and eating Anzac biscuits.We watched solid butter turn into a liquid when heated, we also saw lots of bubbles when we added bicarbonate of soda to our mixture.

We are very excited that everyone in the school got to learn more about the way our brains work when we have Autism. This is a video that was made to help us learn more about autism. we invite you to come on our learning journey.