Place Value Champians

Wow! JSS have really been impressive this week when working on their Place Value unit in Mathematics. Look at them hard at work playing the Plus-One game on their trading boards.

Can they explain to you when they needed to trade in the different lands we visited? Do you know about Zibland and Glibland?

We are looking forward to our incursion on Monday when we will see a puppet show performed by 'Yarn Strong Sista' and then try some ochre painting. The activities will help us begin to learn about Indigenous Australians as part of our 'I Am, You Are, We Are Australian' inquiry unit.

Stand by for some more great photos of our parent guest speakers talking about their different cultural backgrounds.

Say no to bullies

Hello from JSS after another jam packed week. We have concluded our Foundations with a focus on rejection of bullying. The children created badges to promote their ideas about how to reject bullying and have a happy classroom and school.

Our class pledge brings the ideas discussed during Foundations together and the children have signed this as a promise they make as members of JSS.

Hello again after another busy week. Foundations continues with children creating a class definition of 5 Star Learners and 5 Star Work. Doing our personal best was high of the list.

We have also voted on a class mascot and chose a lion. Who can explain why we chose a lion?

Our next challenge is to decide on a class motto!

First Week Back

What a lovely start to our year together! We have been busy with our Foundations' activities this week focusing on getting to know one another. The children have designed t-shirts about themselves, began writing postcards about their holidays, looked at some of our school values and had fun making welcome signs with photos of everyone.