Important upcoming events

Important dates coming up:

  • Week 4
    • Tuesday 16th August, “Fair Dinkum” Book Week presentation
    • Wednesday 17th August, our class will be presenting the Year 2-4 assembly with Miss McMahon’s Year 3 class. Students will be invited to be a presenter. If your child is a presenter, you will know because they will have lines to practise at home.
  • Week 5
    • Tuesday 23rd August, “Living Kaurna” excursion
    • Friday 26th August, Book Week Assembly 10:15am and Book Week dress up day
  • Week 6
    • Friday 2nd September, School Closure Day for the show
  • Week 7
    • Monday 5th September, Student Free Day for teacher Professional Development

Holidays

I hope that families are able to enjoy a relaxing school holiday break. I look forward to seeing the students refreshed and ready to learn after the holidays. Thank you to all families for their support and effort this term!

Inquiry: Keep Me Covered

We have begun our Inquiry topic called “Keep Me Covered” about different homes around the world. Last week we read a book called “Come Over to My House” by Theo LeSieg (otherwise known as Dr Seuss). This introduced the idea of different types of housing around the world. Students chose a house they were interested in and drew a picture of it. They then had to come up with two questions about the house that they would like to know the answer to. This is because questioning (and asking deep questions in particular) is a central component of Inquiry.

Today I drew children’s attention back to Australia (we will then move out to our neighbouring countries and then South America and Africa). Children were given one state of Australia. They then had to find the missing parts of Australia to make a complete map. It was interesting to hear comments move from “I don’t know what I have” to “I have Perth” to “I have Tasmania” and finally to “I have Northern Territory, who has Queensland?” etc. This dialogue occurred naturally but we will formalise it in the weeks ahead. Students then had a go of drawing a freehand map of Australia before being shown some tricks to help them (Australia is a rabbit with the ears being North Queensland and Tasmania being a carrot!) This task helps students form a mental picture of the shape of Australia.image image image image image image image

 

 

Mother’s Day Stall

A quick reminder that the Mother’s Day Stall is tomorrow: Thursday 5th May at school. Students can bring up to $10 to spend at the stall. They will also need to bring a bag to store any bought items. Our browse and buy time is at 12:40pm just before lunch.

Welcome Jessica M!

It is with great pleasure that we welcome (back!) Jessica M. We are excited to have our friend back and in our class and Mrs K thinks it’s great that we have another girl. There are now 27 students in the class, 17 boys and 10 girls!

Welcome back to Term 2!

I hope that all the children had a great school holiday break. We are looking forward to another busy term. Some things to note include:

  • Library borrowing is now on Wednesdays after lunch
  • We have an extra music lesson this term with Mrs Rayner which is first thing on Monday mornings
  • Students will be learning History and Geography with Mrs Williams this term, instead of German with Frau Smith (this will swap again in Term 3)
  • Our Inquiry topic for the term is “Keep Me Covered” – learning about homes around the world. Year 3s will focus on Australia’s neighbouring countries while Year 4s will look at homes in South America and Africa.
  • The Walkathon will be this term!

I’m looking forward to this term of learning and trust that the students will be engaged and motivated.