Term 3, Week 3

Hi parents,

Hope everyone managed to soak up some vitamin D yesterday. I had almost forgotten what the sun felt like!  

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“Be who you were created to be, and you will set the world on fire.” Saint Catherine of Siena

CONFIRMATION

The Year 6’s will be receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation this Saturday night. Please keep them in your prayers this week.

PLD SPELLING SOUNDS

2b: ‘OU’ as in couch

3a: ‘TCH’ as in catch

3b: ‘ORE’ as in shore

4a: ‘CH’ as ‘k’ - mechanic

4b: ‘A’ as ‘o’ - wand

5a: ‘Suffix ‘MENT’ - amazement

5b/6a: Suffix ‘SHIP’ - relationship

LITERACY FOCUS

This week, our reading focus is ‘summarising. Summarising helps identify the main idea and eliminate unnecessary information. It also enables us to put what we’ve read in to our own words so that we can remember it more easily.

We will continue to learn about the structure and language features of information reports. This week, we will be completing our information reports about Dunsborough.

NUMERACY FOCUS

This week, we will be learning about ‘inverse operations’. For example, if we know that 10 + 5 = 15, then we that 15 – 5 = 10.

 HOME LEARNING WEEK 3

The following tasks should be completed each night:

1.    Reading (readers) - 10mins

2.     UNIT 22: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 and Day 4 of mental maths. (Day 5 will be completed on Friday during class) please note that your child may complete more than 1 day on any night, however, it is necessary that you mark their work with them once completed.

3. Times Tables: Revise (x8)

4. Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check

The following tasks are only required to be completed once:

1.    Physical activity (includes team or club sport, dancing etc) - 15mins

2.    Teach your parents something you were taught at school.

3.    Set the dinner table each night.

When a task has been completed, your child is required to tick it off in the diary.

Enjoy the week,

Mr. Jones

Friendology Shared Afternoon Tea - Tuesday 1st August

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25^th July 2017

Dear Year 3 & 4 Parents,

Re: Friendology 101 Shared Afternoon Tea (Tuesday 1st August)

To celebrate the end of our Friendology 101 sessions we would like to have a shared afternoon tea on Tuesday 1st August  beginning at 1.30pm.

If all girls could please bring in a small plate of food to share that would be wonderful! Please be mindful that refrigeration space is limited.

We will be sharing our Sole Projects with each other and will enjoy the afternoon reflecting on the process and skills that we have learnt over the last term and a half and enjoying each other’s company. In our sessions we have looked at:

1. How to Get Real – focuses on the importance of being true to who you are, embracing your unique self, and dispelling myths around gender stereotypes.

2. How to Make Friends – focuses on the art of friendship-making starting with how to introduce yourself, find something in common, and have a conversation. Students also learn what’s normal in a friendship through the 4 Friendship Facts.

3. How to Be a Great Friend – focuses on the difference between healthy and unhealthy friendships using the Friend-o-meter, attributes of a great friend, and the importance of spending the most time in healthy friendships.

4. How to Put out Friendship Fires – focuses on putting a voice to your feelings and conflict-resolution using our step-by-step approach for putting out Friendship Fires®.

5. How to be a Friendship Ninja – focuses on understanding the difference between normal conflict (Friendship Fires®) and Mean-on-Purpose behaviour. Students learn how to say a Quick Comeback and report to a grown up to combat intentional unkind behaviour.

6. How to Handle Tricky Situations – highlights hot topics and common challenges in tween friendships including how to handle being in the middle, managing birthday parties, how to say “No!” to friends without feeling mean, and how to keep friendships healthy online. Students also learn the importance of expressing how you feel and being a good listener.

7. How to Take Control & Feel Heard – focuses on taking control of butterflies (e.g. anxiety) and strategies for managing those ‘movies’ in our minds.

8. How to remember URSTRONG! – brings all the topics together by reviewing and reinforcing important concepts, recognizing the strengths in one another, and a chance for each child to showcase their “sole”.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me directly.

Kind regards,

Caitlin Delane 

Term 3 - Week 2

Hi parents,

Winter is here! Looks like this week will be bring lots of wind and rain.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” ???

PLD SPELLING SOUNDS

2b: ‘EW’ as in stew

3a: ‘IGH’ as in tonight

3b: ‘AIR’ as in hairy

4a: ‘A’ as ‘o’ - squabble

4b: ‘C’ as ‘s’ - princess

5a: ‘IAL’ as in social

5b/6a: ‘SILENT C’ – science

HOME LEARNING FOLDERS / ITEMS

Could parents please remind their child to bring their home learning folders to and from school everyday. The home learning folder should include their mental maths, reader, spelling journal and LSCWC pad.

As half the year has already gone, so has a lot of the children’s school items. Could you please make sure that your child’s pencil case has ample writing equipment etc…

TREE PLANTING

The Year 3’s and 4’s will be involved in a tree planting afternoon on Wednesday. If your child has a pair of gumboots and a pair of gloves, could they please bring them to school in a bag. There is a possibility of rain, so a rain jacket might be a good idea as well.

The trees being planted will hopefully provide homes for a number of possums in the future.

CROSS COUNTRY

Just a reminder that some Year 3 students will be representing OLC at the Interschool Cross Country in Bunbury. Good luck to those students involved.

PARENT ROSTER

The parent roster or Term 3 is up on the whiteboard. Thank you in advance.

LITERACY FOCUS

This week, our reading focus is ‘determining importance’. Determining importance is important because it’s impossible to remember every word we read. By thinking only about the facts or messages that are important, we can remember the ‘big idea’ of the text.

For the next few weeks, we will be learning about the structure and language features of information reports. This week, we are writing about Dunsborough.

NUMERACY FOCUS

This week, we will be learning about ‘multiplication mental strategies.

 HOME LEARNING WEEK 1

The following tasks should be completed each night:

1.    Reading (readers) - 10mins

2.     UNIT 21: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 and Day 4 of mental maths. (Day 5 will be completed on Friday during class) please note that your child may complete more than 1 day on any night, however, it is necessary that you mark their work with them once completed.

3. Times Tables: Revise (x7)

4. Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check

The following tasks are only required to be completed once:

1.    Physical activity (includes team or club sport, dancing etc) - 15mins

2.    Teach your parents something you were taught at school.

3.    Play a board game with the family.

When a task has been completed, your child is required to tick it off in the diary.

Enjoy the week,

Mr. Jones