Good Samaritan Catholic Primary School Fairy Meadow eNewsletter

Learning and Curriculum:

News from Year 1 Classrooms:

In Science and Technology Year 1 are learning to identify that living things live in different places that suit their needs.

We have been discussing the question, how we can improve our own local environment to encourage living things to grow and thrive?

1 Gold specifically researched the needs of birds and discussed how sometimes they may find it hard to get food and that we could help by designing and making a bird feeder for our own gardens. We had lots of fun in the making phase of this project as the photos show. We also spotted a cockatoo approaching one of our bird feeders only minutes after putting it on our classroom veranda!

In Year 1 Blue, the children have been learning about the features of living things and their habitat. They have created collages of gorillas, cheetahs and orangutans in their habitat. The children will continue to create more artworks showing meerkats, crocodiles and kookaburras.

The children have also labelled diagrams and photos of the living things focused on, of their physical features. Their labelling consists of nouns and adjectives and nouns.

Year 1 have also focused on 2D shapes. The children have used skipping ropes to make 2D shapes and they have then traces around these. They then shared with a partner, the features of their 2D shapes.

Year 1 Blue has used shapes to create an AB pattern and observed these patterns using a mirror. They then extended their pattern by making the pattern they observed in the mirror.

News from Year 2 Classrooms:

In Science and Technology, the year 2 children have been learning about how things grow and change. The students have been observing and gathering information about the life stages of living things. Over the last few weeks, the students have been observing how mealworms grow and change. The students have worked collaboratively with a partner to care for mealworms by providing food/water and cleaning/removing waste from their shelter. The students have enjoyed drawing diagrams and writing diary entries about the changes they have observed with the mealworms.

In English, the year 2 children have been learning to explore real and imagined characters and engage with multiple text forms. The students read texts that described and explained factual information that focused on Antarctica. Animals, icebergs and interesting features of Antarctica were then researched and the students planned and created their own factual report sharing their findings. All the students enjoyed creating amazing artworks to accompany their information report.