Japanese

Lesson 1.

Meet Townsend Sensei who will be taking the students every Tuesday afternoon for forty-five minutes for Japanese. Today students look closely at dates and counting numbers. They had an English association or action to accompany each number to help them remember the Japanese pronunciation, and acted out the numbers.

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Numeral              Japanese

1              一 (ichi)

2              二 (ni)

3              三 (san)

4              四 (shi/yon)

5              五 (go)

6              六 (roku)

7              七 (shichi/nana)

8              八 (hachi)

9              九 (kyū/ku)

10           十 (jū)

11           十一 (jū ichi)

12           十二 (jū ni)

13           十三 (jū san)

14           十四 (jū yon)

15           十五 (jū go)

16           十六 (jū roku)

17           十七 (jū nana)

18           十八 (jū hachi)

19           十九 (jū kyū)

20           二十 (ni-jū)

Students also learn how to write the current year and their grade:

Students could practise the months of the year before their next Japanese lesson.

Exploring Bread - Marvellous Microorganisms

Today we began our unit on Marvellous Microorganisms looking at "leaven" and "unleavened" bread and the effect yeast has in the process of making breads. Students extracted the keywords from the text and will be constructing a paragraph about bread tomorrow using their keywords.We read the book above and watched a short video clip on bread.

The three types of bread

Recording observations

Students then worked in groups to make and record their observations about three different types of bread. They looked at a whole grain bread and a white bread both with yeast and and a flat bread without yeast.

They were asked to make detailed annotated diagrams. We only had time to look at two types of bread today but will be looking at the unleavened bread tomorrow morning and finishing of their observations.
Here are two photographs students can use to complete their annotated diagrams if they ran out of time to complete them. 

Wholegrain bread

Wholemeal bread

The recording sheet (A3)

Example of an annotated diagram

The final unleaven bread students looked at:

Lesson 2: Looking at Flow charts (Februray 17th)

Students looked how flow charts are used and drew one of their own up showing the bread-making process. 

Welcome to 5-6 Coote/Miller

Grade 5-6 Coote/Miller

Our classroom

Welcome to Grade 5-6 Coote/Miller. Mrs Coote will be running the program from Monday to Thursday and then Mrs Miller will run the program each Friday. We share the same philosophies about children's learning wherein the emotional development of the child is highly valued, and will be offering many vibrant learning opportunities throughout the course of the year including a camp for the grade six students from April 9th-11th. The school is a "Kids Matter" school. http://www.kidsmatter.edu.au/  The main focii for this term include the science unit Marvellous Micro-organisms and a geography unit looking at Asia, specifically concentrating on China. There is also a huge emphasis on developing critical literacy and numeracy skills. Students are currently partaking in unit based on the book Storm Boy and will later view the film looking specifically at the filming techniques employed in the movie. There are many leadership opportunities  within the Daily Phys.Ed program, the Student Representative Council, the extensive music program. Students also are given the opportunity to try out for the two Maths Relay teams who partake in a State wide competition late July.

Specialist Times
Monday 11:10 Physical Education
Tuesday 11:10 Library
Tuesday 1:25 Japanese
Wednesday 9:45 Music

I will be running a double art lesson every Thursday.

Beautiful Blackmans Bay

The beach where we have our annual Surf Carnival