Timetable and current Inquiry Questions

Hi everyone,

• Our Arcade Games are coming along nicely. The children have started building their first prototype and we invite all parents to come to school on Monday 27th October to help give feedback to the children on their games and support them to modify and improve their games. We will be working on arcade-related work that day so you can come in any time. 

• Please note we are Assembly Hosts in Week 4 Tues 28th October. We will be presenting a very special song that we have written and composed ourselves with Nicola's help - it will definitely be a tearjerker.  

• Our current Inquiry concepts are:

Change starts with me!

Play can connect us with each other and can bring us happiness. Sharing play experiences can change how people feel and help make the world a better place.

Being a good global and local citizen includes caring for important places like the environment- forests, gardens and caring for the happiness of ourselves and others (self-sustainability).

We are exploring these concepts through our work building our Year One Happy Arcade and we have also been inspired by Kid President video clips. We have also been thinking about sustainability during the whole school mini inquiry.

• We have our excursion to the Royal Botanical Gardens on Wednesday 22nd October next week. Parents who are volunteering need to have emailed Kate (parent rep) to put your name down. We have our required 15 parent helpers so thank you to those who have volunteered.

The workshops we will be participating in on our excursion involve quality literature around sustainability. The concepts will we be developing include:

• The amazing plants of the Australian rainforest and how Aboriginal people used the rainforest. 
• How plants and animals interact
• Why are plants so important in our lives? 
• Plants as homes, as food and explore their fun and fantasy elements. 
• Plant and animal connections
• role of botanic gardens as habitat for wildlife in cities. 
• By growing healthy gardens for ourselves we can also grow gardens for other living things.
• Growing your own green space and the importance of green spaces in cities. 
• Gardens as also being a great way to grow friendships! 

So much mathematics involved in thinking about our arcade games!!! We are looking at Measurement and Shape especially! How big would your box have to be to fit you in it? Students used various measuring tools to measure themselves and add on more height, width and length so that they could move around in their box.

 We brainstormed what it meant to change the world one step at a time when we wrote the lyrics to our song "Change Starts With Me".

Here is the week 3 timetable.

T4W3 timetable