Last week on Thursay and Friday all the Middles classes went on an excursion to the Melbourne Muesum. We walked through the Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre to answer questions related to our unit of inquiry. The link below can be used to explore the exhibit with your family at home:

https://museumvictoria.com.au/bunjilaka/

Thank you to all the parents who helped make the excursion a huge success!

We also celebrated book week by dressing up as our favourite literary characters. A parade was held in the multipurpose room to celebrate and share our love of books!

Thanks for reading!

By MN on behalf of all the Middles Classes

This term we are looking at the key concept causation and the related concept consequence.

When we look through the lens of causation we are asking the question “what caused this to happen?” and when we look through the lens of consequence we are asking the question “what were or are the consequences of this event or action?”.

This term in the middles MN took the time to think a little bit about…

Thanks for reading!

By MN

BUNNY BUDDY DAY

On Tuesday the 21^st of June we had a bunny buddy day. Miss Welsby brought her three rabbits Dina, Luna and Basil and Miss Ryan’s daughter brought in her two rabbits Nepe and Pepe in to school. PR students were working on writing narratives and information texts so MN students helped their buddies write an information text or a narrative about rabbits. We got to hold the rabbits and pat them. We had fun.

ALPHA SHOW

On Thursday the 23^rd of June Kunyung Primary School had the Alpha Show theatre group come to perform in the multipurpose room. The show was Aladdin and the actors were funny. There was lots of singing and dancing and even a sword fight! They threw some confetti and fake money, it was a good show.

By Leni and Noam

Dear Students and Parents

The Middles Teachers would like to say a big thank you for a wonderful term. We hope you have enjoyed the last 11 weeks and we wish you a wonderful holiday break. Stay safe and enjoy the downtime with your family and friends!

See you next term!

Cheers

Middles Teaching Staff!

Dear Parents,

Just to let you know that next Term the Middles will be attending an excursion to the Melbourne Museum to support our next Unit of Inquiry.

Thursday 21st July: MA, MN, MW
Friday 22nd July: MH, MF, MB, MM

Further information about the excursion will be coming home closer to the date including permission forms and payment.

We do however, require parent volunteers on the day (4 per class).

Unfortunately, the Friday excursion cannot accommodate all of our parent helpers on the bus. Therefore, volunteers will need to be prepared to car pool with another parent or meet us at the Museum.

Your class contact parent will be communicating with you early next week in regards to volunteers.

Thanks so much!!

Middles Teaching Team

This week in inquiry we have been focusing on finding information, when you find information you think about the questions that you have, what kind of resources might help and where to find them.

Noam is focusing on Piccasso for her inquiry into ‘How we express ourselves” she looked up Piccaso’s work and chose the image of the Weeping Woman because it caught her eye. Noam said she “liked the colour and the shapes in this picture, it’s interesting and different.”

Noam then researched the question “what does the weeping woman express?” and found that Dora Maar was Picasso’s mistress from 1936 until 1944. In their relationship Picasso painted her in a number of his paintings and was quoted saying; “For me she is the weeping woman… it was the deep reality not the superficial one.”

So far Noam has enjoyed choosing her own form of art and independently researching Picasso.

Thanks for the chat Noam!

Miss Welsby

Reading

In Reading we have been selecting goals to help us better understand the text. We have also been writing about our reading once a week. A good reading response has a sentence about your goal, an explanation and an example from the text.

By Ava, Leni, Zac, Seb and Hudson

Writing

In Writing we are working on our personal narratives, we are learning how to describe the characters and our settings. We have worked on using lots of detail and descriptive words, and created character sketches.

By Noam, Ruby, Siena and Remy

Problem Solving

Last week in Maths we set stretch goals. Stretch goals:
– Give you something to work towards and something to celebrate when you achieve them!
– Give you a challenge!
– Give you confidence and put the pressure on (in a good way)!
– Make you want to work harder!
We placed our stretch goals on the Problem Solving Continuum and thought about what skill we would like to be working on by week 4 of term 3 this year.

By Melody, Haylee, Tom P, Takoda and Isabelle

Time

In Maths inside we have been learning about time. We have been solving time problems, recording different times like o’clock, quarter past and quarter to on clock faces and creating our own clocks.

By Will, Oscar, Asher, Jayden and Benn

Inquiry

Our central idea is:
When people express themselves through the arts there can be different interpretations.
We are inquiring into different artists, forms of art and feelings, nature, culture, beliefs and values expressed through the arts.

By Benn, Emma and Amelia

A huge belated thank you to all the parents, friends and members of the Kunyung Primary School community that assisted with our Middles Artist in Residence Day earlier in the term, it was a great success!

The Middles Team