Specialist Term 2 Curriculum News 2021
Specialist Term 2 Curriculum News 2021
Indonesian
P-Grade 6 students have had a positive start to Indonesian this year and in term 2 will begin to integrate Indonesian into their daily class routines such as the morning/ afternoon role with their classroom teacher.
In Indonesian class, students continue to exchange greetings and information about themselves, family and interests through guided group activities such as games, songs, role play as well as shared reading of Indonesian texts in order to create their own captions, simple sentences or texts.
This term, the students will continue to revise and consolidate language and skills from Term 1 as well as focusing upon the following topics:
- In Prep, students will revise numbers 0-5, basic colours and greetings and be able to share information about themselves such as their name and where they live. Students will also look at Komodo dragons.
- In Grade 1, students will focus on the topic of animals and pets, counting, classroom objects and learn a song about an Indonesian animal.
- In Grade 2, students will focus upon describing pets using adjectives such as colour and size, describing what pets eat and drink in order to create a shared book of pets. Students will also learn about an endangered Indonesian animal.
- In Grade 3 and 4, students will compare their daily routine to that of a typical Indonesian child and learn basic verbs to create their own sentences. Students will use numbers to tell the time and be able to complete a storyboard about their typical day. Students will also label body parts and look at traditional clothing.
- In Grade 5 and 6, students will look at traditional Indonesian food and through role play, be able to take and make orders in a restaurant, identify various types of traditional food and drink, use numbers to calculate prices as well as looking at Indonesian recipes.
Michelle Martins Da Silva
Music
In Prep and Junior Music we have been learning how to read music using the solfa scale. Each note in the scale has a character name and story to help us remember it. We have been concentrating on singing and listening, and we have been playing games which practice these skills. In term 2 we will continue this learning and start to play instruments using our music reading skills.
Grades 3 and 4 have been becoming familiar with the music “app” GarageBand on their Ipads. This puts a mini “recording studio” into the hands of students, and allows them to explore composition, arrangement and recording in class, as well as being able to continue this exploration at home. In term 2 we will be playing more “live instruments” and composing our own “four chord” songs.
Grades 5 and 6 have been practising playing music together whilst working in groups, looking at different musical genres, and learning basic guitar skills. They have displayed skills of communication, cooperation and organisation in their rehearsal and are developing processes which they will use in term 2 in their band and performance work.
Megan McKenzie, Rob Turner
Art
This Term Newsletter will provide you with information about your children’s upcoming teaching and learning experiences in the new term.
There is also plenty of additional information provided via Compass throughout the school year, so please make a point of touching base regularly.
In Art this term, classes are extremely busy with threads and textiles, collage and printing. Have you taken a walk down our gallery and the main corridor with your child lately? Take a look, we have many creative, hidden talented students in our school, of which I am proud of them all.
Parents, please it is imperative your child has an art smock at school please (everyone from 1 to grade 6)—many students do not have one and since we are working with paint, it is unlikely they will stay clean, so make sure a named Art smock gets to your child’s teacher.
This term, Grade Prep – 2 students are learning construction and collage techniques. There will be lots of sculptures being built. Grade 3 -5 are learning embroidery and weaving skills and creating some exciting projects and Grade 6 will be involved in creating a poster for the International Peace Poster Competition. Please don’t hesitate to come and see your child’s teacher if you have any questions, we are only too happy to help. Please bring in a box of tissues for the specialist programs – coming onto the colder season children need tissues and the specialist areas are often forgotten about. Just drop them into the Art room and I will distribute them around to all the specialist areas.
Hope to see you around.
Ms Susan Torriero, Mr Rob Turner, Mr Randall Hill
PE
In Term 2 there are a few major events on for sport which you can find in the compass calendar. The main one being the grade 3-6 House Athletics day on Friday June 11th. Please let Mr Davis know if you are able to help with Marshalling duties for this event. Please ensure permission note and any money is completed on Compass before the due date (these will come out early term 2).
The PE Curriculum for all areas will continue to focus on participation to each individual’s best ability.
In the prep area, this will continue through skill based stations and modified PMP program. The grade 1 and 2 students will also develop their skills with group work and some minor games of soccer, basketball and tag games.
Grade 3 and 4 students will focus on Australian Rules Football and soccer as well as some Fundamental Motor skills stations. They will also participate in the beep test focusing on their personal best.
Grade 5 and 6 students will prepare for their upcoming interschool sport competition. Golf, Volley Stars, Teeball and Australian Rules Football will be covered this term for these year levels. They will also participate in the beep test focusing on their personal best.
There will also be a number of extra clinics organised throughout the term for various year levels at no cost. Please contact us if you have any questions throughout the term.
Ricky Davis, Rob Turner and Randal Hill