Christmas Party

Thank you so much to all the boys and parents who came to our Christmas Class Party today. The present that I received was unbelievably gorgeous and I will treasure it forever.

I hope you all have a wonderful end to the year and hopefully I will be able to see you at Speech Morning (fingers crossed)! I will also try to put a picture of our little boy up here on the blog when he arrives for the boys to be able to see.

Merry Christmas!

From Mrs Geelhoed

Diary Dates Week 6 Term 4

DIARY DATES:
MON - Chapel, Library, Sports training (basketball, tennis and cricket), S&E Test (Swan River)

TUES - P.E, Water polo training. Science Test (Mixtures and solutions), Orientation into the Senior School Library P4 (pencil)

WED - Chapel money, Art, LOTE (French test)

THURS - Library, House Sport, Homework due, Spelling test

FRI -Orientation Day


HOMEWORK:
Maths - Mental Maths Unit 21
Reading - Read every night signed in diary 
Spelling - Half Unit 36 / Half Unit 12
French - study greetings, classroom sayings, numbers 1-100

Uniform for Friday 15th

Mr Wright has just notified us that the office will be sending out an SMS to parents to let them know that due to the weather tomorrow boys will not have to wear their formals. Stripes will be fine for tomorrow even though we have assembly.

A message from Mr Leckie - P.E

During week 7 the year 4 – 6 PE classes will have Water Polo as their lessons. Could you please remind all boys to bring their bathers/change of clothes etc for this week. Board shorts/school shorts are not permitted, they must be in their school speedos.

Book sale

SAVE THE CHILDREN AUSTRALIA

In support of the University Branch "The Summer Sale"

WHEN: Sunday 24th November 2013 10am - 4pm

WHERE: UWA Book Depot (opposite the CSIRO and diagonal to the Perry Lakes stadium redevelopment). Save the Children signs displayed on the fence.

WHAT: A huge number of pre-loved books in popular and specialist categories, also maps, CDs, DVDs and sheet music will be on sale at bargain prices.

Speech Morning Poem

For those boys who have had trouble accessing the poem for speech morning I have copied and pasted it below. No excuses boys!!!!

6 LG Pre Primary Poem

If you go down to the school today

You’re in for a big surprise,

Mums and dads with their bright young son

Few with some tears in their eyes.

For every prep there ever there was,

Is gathered here together because,

Today’s the day, the Pre Primaries

Go to Christ Church.

Nap time for everyone,

We’ve all had so much fun, chasing each other we love to run.

Watch us walking hand in hand,

And by the end of lunch our shoes are always full of sand (sorry mum!)

Asking questions all day long,

We learn things best when they are simple and in song!.

Ten to three their mummies and daddies will

Take their home to bed,

Because their tired little Pre- Primaries.

Instrumental solo- boys play/act

Every boy in the class will try,

His very best to do well,

Cutting and glueing and letter and more,

We even learn how to spell!

For each of us, we love this great place,

We learn and laugh a smile on our face,

Today's the day the pre primaries say “THANKS” to Christ Church.

Upcoming Science, Maths and S&E tests

Due to me not being here after this week, I wanted to make sure I put up a few resources for some upcoming tests. This week we will be having our Maths test on angles, the other two tests will most likely be next week with Miss Sykes. Boys will also be completing some translation activities, once the content has been covered, for maths in the coming weeks.

For the Maths test on Friday boys will need to be able to do the following things:
-Label angles (without measuring - acute, obtuse, right, straight, reflex, revolution)
-Measure angles using a protractor
-Draw angles using a protractor
-Find the missing angle of a triangle or quadrilateral (triangles = 180, quadrilaterals = 360 in total)
-Find angles based on complementary and supplementary angles

These are all activities boys have been completing in class and should be revising for homework.

Swan River test
We have covered lots of aspects of the Swan River over Term 3 and Term 4. Boys will be given a checklist tonight to help them prepare for their test and we will run through the revision in class this week as well. Boys are able to access videos etc. that have been placed up on the blog throughout the term and do their own research of anything they are unsure of.

Science test
This term we have had discussions and completed investigations all relating to solutions/mixtures and reversible/irreversible changes. Boys will continue to complete some fun activities over the following weeks in this area, but the test will need to be completed earlier due to reports. We have already covered out main experiments and ideas, so all boys have been exposed to what will be on the test.

Boys will also be bringing home a checklist of what they need to know for the test and we will be running through these in class this week as well. Some extra resources to help boys study are linked below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHM0UkhwfsQ - reversible and irreversible changes video we watched as an introduction.
http://www.teachingandlearningresources.co.uk/6d-science.shtml - quizzes on different pages about similar scientific activities as we completed in class or for boys to do some further learning.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/materials/changes_materials/read/1/ - great quiz to review what we have learnt
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/materials/changes_materials/quiz/q47730333 - a great test yourself quiz