Diary Dates Week 5

Due to today being a half day with the long weekend, our class were unable to complete their diary dates at school. I encourage all boys to fill in their own personal diary dates such as sport training and music lessons. Below are the main dates for this week:

MON - Public holiday, no school!

TUES - Julian presenting his Prime Minister speech, Unit 7 Spelling Test (to catch up from Friday), iPad deployment in P1 for our class, working on our Government Posters, P.E

WED - Chapel money, library

THURS - Prep JPSSA Interschool Swimming Carnival, P.E

FRI - Homework due, Assembly

Unfortunately I will be away from Tuesday - Friday attending a funeral but Mrs Allitt will be in our classroom and knows all the boys, as well as our class routines.

STARS Week 5

Next Thursday we are completing our STARS unit on sequencing. Below is a website that boys are able to download worksheets from for free if they would like to practice at home over the week.

http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/language_arts/sequence/

Maths - operations

All boys in maths have been revising and practising equations and worded problems with all four operations. In a couple of weeks there will be a test to see how much each boy has improved compared to their pre-test (completed at the very start of the year). Below is a great link if any boys would like to practice their operations at home, particuarly leading up to the test. Don't forget you also have access to Mathletics activities as well.

http://www.math-drills.com/

Young Australian of the Year 2013

Tomorrow boys will be in the Chapel for a presentation by Akram Azimi, Young Australian of the Year. This will no doubt be a very inspiring presentation that all boys will take a lot from. It might be a great conversation starter to discuss with your child what impact Akram might have had on him when he returns from school tomorrow afternoon.

More information about Akram can be found at the link below:
http://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/honour-roll/?view=fullView&recipientID=1011

Excursion

Hi everyone,
there seems to be a bit of confusion in regards to our class excursion to State Parliament House. All details of excursions now go out as part of the School Newsletter so make sure you click on the link and see the details.

Our class will be going on Wednesday 27th March for the morning and returning around lunch time.

Homework Week 5

I know this is quite early but I wanted give the boys a heads up on their homework for next week so they are prepared and know what to take home on Friday.

HOMEWORK WEEK 5:

SPELLING – No spelling unit this week due to short week

WRITING – complete and edit book report. Create your own cover of the book on A4 white paper. There should be no white as the background and it must be neat! The winning design will get a prize.

MATHS – Unit 3 and times tables (same format for levels as previous weeks)

READING – Every night signed in diary

All homework will be due Friday as usual and boys will receive next week their spelling words for Week 6.

I hope everyone is getting their costumes sorted for our Assembly item. It's not long now!!!

World's greatest shave

It's that time of year again when boys start shaving their heads to raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation. Although our school hasn't put together a big day like they did last year, Andrew Triglavcanin has decided to raise money and himself for this amazing cause.

If you could like to support our classmate in raising money you can either follow the link below or donate money to him in class. We all wish you the best of luck Andrew!

http://my.leukaemiafoundation.org.au/personalPage.aspx?SID=204933&LangPref=en-CA