The students in 3A have identified their character strengths. Students were given character strength cards from which they got to choose the strengths that were most like them! They then made posters showing our character strengths and gave some evidence as to why they identified with a particular character strength.
This is our character strength wall.
Below are some of our posters.
What is your signature character strength?
On Friday we welcomed many of our parents and grandparents into our classroom. It was great to share some of our learning. The students performed poems that they had learnt during the week. We shared our Barwon Heads history projects with our families, played maths games and estimated blocks in a jar. It was great to have so many parents write on our blog! Thank you so much for visiting our classroom!
Today we are looking forward to welcoming our parents into our classroom!
We have filled a jar full of baby blocks and invite parents to estimate how many blocks are in the jar!
How many blocks do you think are in the jar?
This week our Learning Focus for Reading is Fluency.
One of the strategies that we use to read fluently is to re-read text to make sure that it sounds smooth and we understand what are reading.
We enjoyed hearing Banjo Patterson’s poem “Mulga Bill’s Bicycle” being read fluently and with expression.
In Guided Reading we read the poem “Hatching” by Lachlan Campain.
Have a listen to this poem being read by some of our class members!
Which poem have you enjoyed reading fluently?
This morning we had a very interesting time at the Lobster Pot. Maddy taught us all about how the land that Barwon Heads is built on was formed. We learnt that the ocean went all the way to Ballarat but the ice age that happened 11, 500 years ago exposed the land. The bluff is over 100,000 years old but the Ocean Grove spit is only 6000 years old.
We found out that the indigenous people were the first shopkeepers, farmers, lawyers etc of the land that we live on now and that the land provided all that they needed to live. There are middens around Barwon heads that look like lots of shells, but they re the Aborigine’s rubbish tips. All of their “rubbish” was biodegradable though – no plastic!
Here is a map of all the shipwrecks around Barwon Heads. There were many objects on display that had been found from shipwrecks.
We also learnt about local indigenous plants and animals and why it is so important to look after our beaches and sand dunes.
What did you learn?