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Learning Intention: We are learning to work collaboratively to write a persuasive text. Success Criteria: We can plan, write, edit and publish a persuasive text with a partner. The students each chose a topic of their choice, some of the topics included: Playing video games is bad for young children.…

Addition Strategies. #1 is adding by place value. Some of the kids call it decomposing the number, which is perfectly fabulous. This is basically just adding a place at a time. What makes this way so great, is that it focuses on adding the value of each place, instead of just the number in the place.…

Writing Task: Narrative. This term we have been learning about Fractured Fairytales. We have written our own fractured fairytales and are publishing them into a book. Learning Intention: We are learning how you use description in our writing. Success Criteria: I can use adjectives in my writing to describe…

In Transition Irwin we have been learning to be Critical Thinkers by problem solving every Friday in Math. Students have been practicing the problem solving process of ‘See, Plan, Do, Check’ whereby they select their own method of how to solve the problem using either concrete materials or drawings.…

Harmony Week is about celebrating our diversity through shared events and stories. This week, Larrakeyah Primary School will join that celebration this Harmony Day on Thursday 21 March 2019.

In 1/2 Zikos we have been learning to write Narratives. In this lesson we focused on character traits and tried to describe the appearance of our main character (outside), his/her personality and feelings (inside). Learning Intention: We are learning to write Narratives.Success Criteria: I can describe…

Casey Caterpillar HandwritingLearning Intention: We are learning to form the Casey Caterpillar shapes correctly.Success Criteria: I can form the shapes correctly.I can listen to the name of the shape and draw it correctly on the branch.We listened to the ‘Casey Caterpillar’ story. When they heard one…

Enhancing our Chinese program this year, we are pleased to welcome Associate Teacher Ms Yunjing Peng to the Larrakeyah teaching team.

Writing Task: Spectacular Sentences. This week, we continued learning about sentence structure. Students were taught about the seven parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns) and then shown how to combine these into clauses and phrases. We worked on…

In Transition Jain, we are having fun learning about numbers. Learning Intention: We are learning to count. Success Criteria: I can count to 10. I can make numbers with plasticine. I can count blocks. I can draw circles to match a number. I can write numbers to 10.