Book Week 2013

Book week 2013 begins this week. This Friday the children have an opportunity to participate in the school dress up. While not officially mentioned in the school newsletter, Senior Unit students are able to dress in a costume of a book character.
The Senior Unit teachers discussed with the children what would be appropriate and what wouldn't. We reminded the students that jeans and a tshirt etc is not enough. (It isn't a casual day)
For those who want to participate, enjoy and we look forward to seeing great costumes.

A link below has been added that shows the books that have been short listed for 2013.
http://cbca.org.au/shortlist2013.htm

Also in the School House (up the top) the Book Fair will be running. If you would like to get some books check it out.

Extended Learning.

As part of extended learning in the Senior Unit some children have been involved in the $50 challenge. It is a great challenge for children to display some entreperneurial skills as they try to reach a goal of $50.

You can check out the website here
http://clubkidpreneur.com/

We hope to keep you updated as the children continue their ventures.

Unit of Inquiry

A marking guide has been added to the Housing Estate assignment page.
The guide will give you an understanding of how the assignment will be assessed.
If you have any questions please talk to one of the Senior Unit teachers.

Assignment due next Tuesday.

Spelling

Just informing everyone that there is NO SPELLING this week. This is during Week 4 and will also occur in Week 8.
Children have been encouraged to focus on Mathletics and the Unit of Inquiry Learning at Home sheet this week.

Thankyou!!!

 

Crows Visit

On Friday afternoon we had a visit from an Adelaide Crows. Mitch Grigg came to the school and spoke about his first games, what it's like to be a part of the Crows and also answered some questions form the children.
It was interesting to hear about what it takes to be an AFL player.
Prizes were awarded to a class and a student for completing a food journal.
An informative way to end the week.

The Results are In

The results from the last poll are in and Unit of Inquiry has proven to be a favourite subject of many.
You can check out the new poll and you have 2 weeks to vote.

Welcome to Term 3

Welcome back to a new term. We hope you had a relaxing time and enjoyed the time with your children. This term is again a busy one with many events happening. We look forward to keeping you informed as the term progresses.

What we are Learning!!!

Unit of Inquiry
The first part of this term we are continuing to focus on our population unit. The central idea for this Unit of Inquiry is: Population growth requires consideration and management to be sustainably developed. Children have been looking at how populations grow and the reasons behind the growth. Investigating these factors have helped the children continue to develop their understanding of population issues. As we continue the unit we will be looking at population sustainability and management. If you would like to add to our population wall feel free. It can be found here:
http://padlet.com/wall/seniorunitpopulation

Literacy
In literacy for the first part of this term we are looking at Narratives. The children are going to be writing stories and a range of different ways. As classes we are all contributing to a class narrative in the form of a Choose Your Own Adventure. Each class is coming up with a story and then will continue the story and have multiple endings. It will be an interesting experience.
Reading continues to be a key part of our literacy program. Children are encouraged to continue nightly reading and when they complete a book to do a lexile quiz. Children over 1000 in the lexile program need to complete 2 book reviews to put on the kids talk books website.
The website can be found here: http://kidstalkbooks.weebly.com/
Check it out and read some of our reviews.

Numeracy
Continuing to develop our mental computation skills and use of the four operations is a major focus this term. Knowledge of the times tables will continue to be a vital skill the children need to know and we ask that you encourage your child to practise these daily.
Data analysis and and graphing is also a large part of this term. The children will be creating, recording and interpreting data in a range of different ways. Also we will be investigating linear equations and cartesian planes.
Children are encouraged to continue with Mathletics. It can be found here:
http://www.mathletics.com.au/

It looks to be an exciting term and we will keep you informed as it progresses.