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Hi Everyone,
A bit of Book Week  clarification. Come to school dressed in your costume. You can wear it all day so long as you will be comfortable , can move freely and most importantly go to the toilet independently. The  parade is at 10.20 am on the basketball court. If it rains we head to the hall. Don’t forget if you can, to bring along the book that your dress up character is from.

Friday will be exciting!

Week 5 already!

So what’s been happening so far in room 01?

📚 In inquiry we designed a house suitable for a rainforest: looking at features and materials.

📚 We shared our Maths About  Me posters  and compared information.

📚 We learnt about magic e: the silent letter that flips the vowel sound.

📚 We continued developing the play space  outside our room. Along with room 02 we purchased some planter boxes and spent time filling them with dirt in preparation for seed planting.

📚 We developed our skipping skills and supported Jump Rope for Heart.

📚 We attended  a fabulous performance ‘ Emily Loves to Bounce’  and loved the visual delight of bouncing balls and floating lanterns!

📚 We welcomed final placement pre service teacher, Laura, who will be spending 5 weeks in our room next term.

And it’s Book Week!

📚 Book Week parade on Friday. Come dressed as your favourite Australian book character or famous Australian character from history.

📚 Sharing this week is your favourite book. Tell us about the characters, plot (what happens) and why you like it.

📚 The library will have lots of fun things to do. Don’t forget to visit at lunch time.

Oops , sorry everyone, I typed Wednesday instead of Friday!

Thanks Linda for your carefully reading of the blog and newsletter.

We head to the theatre tomorrow, ‘Emily Likes to Bounce.’ There will be no lunch orders as we will be eating lunch early.

Jump Rope for Heart, Tuesday afternoon,

Maths posters are due for sharing this week.

School photo day is Wednesday, please send along your child’s individual photograph envelope on the day.

We had some visitors from an elementary school in Japan visit our room…they were impressed with our morning activity, room set up and work samples and friendly atmosphere. They attended the assembly , spoke about their school and taught us a great dance !

Our school’s Respect focus this week will be on greetings, why and what.

See you tomorrow 😀

Well, we have certainly had a busy start to the 3rd term!

Nature Play is always a learning success and last week everyone enjoyed their time in the Grange garden. We revisited our weeding efforts from last term and found more weeds, collected pods and leaves, looked for worms ,created a nature shop, igloo and nests for the birds and discovered a very interesting hole. And of course, we splashed and splashed in puddles.  Nature Play always leads to the students questioning, problem solving, talking , co operating, thinking and rediscovering a respect for their environment. Thank you for supporting your child to be organised and ready for Nature Play, it means we can spend more time in the garden and less time looking for coats and boots!

Seesaw App. This term I would like families who comment on their child’s enteries to focus on the learning . By asking your child to explain what they were doing and the learning, why , you are encouraging them to be a reflective learner. Of course the students still love receiving a like/heart from their family.

Other learning in our room….

Respect:

We have been talking about the school value of Respect, what does it mean,look like and sound like. We have talked about respect at home, at school and within our community. Together with room 02 we made a display of our thoughts , how like flowers respect grows. It looks fabulous, please take a look.

Literacy:

• Writing: recounts and procedures
• Reading : procedures, comprehension. Connecting learning in word study, vowels, with reading strategy ‘Flippy Dolphin’
• Word study: vowels, diagraphs er, ar and magic ‘e’ rule.
• Oral language: sharing topics and recounts.

Sharing topics for the term are:

Week 2: Free choice.

Week 3: Something that takes a short time to do and something that takes a long time. How do you know?

Week 4: Poster, ‘Maths about Me’. Outline of poster was sent home on Friday.

Week 5: Book Week, bring your favourite book to share and leave at school for 2 weeks.

Week 6: Free choice.

Week 7: No sharing, it’s swimming week and we will be very busy!

Week 8: Interesting shapes from your house, draw and label.

Week 9: Free choice.

Week 10: A sport you are good at.

Maths: Time

• days of the week/months of the year ; saying, writing and reading.
• language of time.
• passing of time.
• sequencing of events, within a day, week.

Inquiry: Homes.

Fun with our buddies, practicing skipping in readiness for ‘Jump Rope for Heart’, Tuesday 16th starting @ 2pm. Please refer to school newsletter for details.

Other bits’n’pieces:

Timetable changes for this term:

• Monday: Computer room.
• Tuesday: Literacy groups with 02, Resource Based Learning with Simone ( working on our Inquiry)
• Thursday: Japanese 12.10pm, P.E at 1.50pm.
•  Friday: Art 9.50am, Drama at 12.10pm.

Notes home:

• Performance, ‘Emily Likes to Bounce.’
• Swimming.
• Photo envelope.

Mums’ Night Out on Friday, 29th July at Melt on King William Road.
$39 head which is a banquet style menu – Tapas, Pizza, Salad and Dessert.
7.30pm
Please RSVP to Megan by Friday, 22nd July on 0409149199 or megan@entree.com.au

This time it will be on Thursday 23rd June.

Looking forward to seeing everyone independently walk into the building and get themselves organised for the day. The students are getting soooo good at this! 😀

Would you like to know how to help your child become a confident , fluent reader?

Parent volunteers needed to attend our reading workshop.  Please email me your preference, Tuesday 28th June  at 9.15am or 2.15pm.