Sarah Leyson

Slo-mo action of angular momentum to visualise the theory of how the solar system was formed 🪐 #handsonscience #earthandspace

This term’s #science #provocation My favourite topic to teach!! #earthandspace

The @SPSC_Adelaide Year 5 team at our end of term Gold Rush Wax Museum! A fantastic afternoon celebrating the boys’ wonderful learning this term! Grateful to work in such a great team.

Rounding off our length unit with investigating the proportions from Da Vinci’s ‘Vetruvian Man’

Today I learnt that a ‘sphygmomanometer’ is an instrument that measures blood pressure. #etymology: ‘sphygmos’ = ‘a pulse’ in Greek; ‘metron’ (Greek) or ‘metrum’ (Latin) = ‘measure’ #WordStudy #linguistics @dejaynjd @JGelsthorpe @jasmineftaylor1

Privileged to be able to have discussions like this with young people. Some of my students’ reflections in response to learning about the history of Australian voting and why there is to be a referendum #VoiceToParliament #reconciliation @JGelsthorpe @jasmineftaylor1

Meaningful May - Day 21: Look up at the sky. Remember we are all part of something bigger actionforhappiness.org/meaningful-may #MeaningfulMay

Love this! Perfect timing for our poetry unit this term!

#teambuilding, #teamwork and #communication games in preparation for Year 5 camp this week! The buzz of excitement is palpable! #wellbeing #outdooreducation

The power of words!! An explosion of words in our #wordstudy, exploring each #morpheme and its meaning to build and understand other words. Amazing how the boys got from ‘graph’ meaning ‘written’ to ‘deconstruct’, ‘cardiology’ and ‘astronaut’! #linguistics @dejaynjd

I love this!!

Time for phases of the moon in #hawksmakerspace with the 6s. Developed this project last year, and it was a hit, so continuing to use it. This one turned out really well. Next group tomorrow.

Maths meets handball - counting in intervals of tenths. Who could get the highest score? Others were experimenting where some squares were tenths and some were hundredths! #teamwork #activemaths #wholebodymaths #kinaestheticlearning #playinupperprimary @Mr_Minchin @JGelsthorpe

A great morning activity as the boys came in to the classroom today. A brilliant co-constructed discussion point to use at the start of our lesson #mathstalk #numbersense #placevalue #reasoning #problemsolving #discussion #collaboration #application #studentagency @JGelsthorpe

A chance for us to enjoy our beautiful school grounds while writing personal Acknowledgements of Country to use in class, thinking how we are connected to place #wellbeing #reflection #IndigenousEducation #respect #connections #gratitude #perspective @SPSC_Adelaide

Such a simple question led to some incredible thinking and discussions today! #mathstalk #reasoning #criticalthinking @JGelsthorpe

As a start of the year activity, Year 5 used @MichaelRosenYes’s ‘I Know Someone’ poem to share interesting facts about ourselves @SPSC_Adelaide @GeorgaPavy

Excellent find in @Kmart_Australia! So much potential for the classroom, can’t wait to use it! #mindfulness #creativity #problemsolving #patience #teamwork #communication @BDStorer