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A reminder that the school will be partnering with Dandenong Learning and Community Centre and are inviting our families to get involved. DLCC are going to be leading a program within our school which will help to establish and maintain our gardens. We are looking for enthusiastic community members to help create and maintain engaging play spaces for our students. There is no experience necessary! We would like to expand some of our current garden play areas, plant more trees and shrubs and maintain our current gardens.
Please contact the school if you would like to volunteer some time and help keep our school looking beautiful.
After the much needed holiday break the Unit A students have quickly settled back into class routines. We know this is going to be a short term, however, we can assure you it is going to be action packed.
Our Grade 1 students have been learning about using their senses for careful observation. We continue to develop deduction and inference skills in reading groups and are learning about word choice in writing.
In Maths this fortnight we are focussing on counting skills, 2D and 3D shapes, as well as number formation and ongoing number skills.
The Prep students will be introduced to Nursery Rhymes as a fun way of developing their awareness and understanding of rhyming words. This topic lends itself to lots of role play, writing and craft activities. Perhaps you can share your favourite childhood nursery rhymes with your children and enjoy finding rhyming patterns in some of the books you have at home.
We are continuing to do lots of hands on Maths activities to consolidate number and measurement concepts.
On Wednesday we had another successful Buddies session and the students really enjoyed going on a hunt to find objects of a particular colour in the playground. The teachers are hoping to finalise the Buddy matches by next week so the children will have one significant Buddy for the rest of the year.
We would like to welcome back everyone after the holidays! Both year levels are excited to be back and see their friends again. The Grade 4 students have been excited to change classroom jobs for the term. They have coordinated a seamless handover and are enthusiastic to learn their new roles. The Grade 3 students are in full NAPLAN mode. They are preparing the for the NAPLAN tests that will be held in Week 3 of this term. Good luck Grade 3s!
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Unit B was very excited to participate in the first gala sports day for the year. We got very lucky with the weather, narrowly avoiding the predicted wet weather. All our teams competed in the right spirit and represented our school with pride. We fielded teams in netball, tee ball, basketball and football. Well done Grade 5 and 6 students on your efforts!
It is great to have everyone back at school ready for another busy term! The students have enjoyed engaging in our new kitchen/cafe, and teacher corner stations during Developmental Play. The Grade Two students have begun their Narrative Writing unit on Fairy tales and have been exploring ‘Goldilocks and the three bears’ and ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’. The Grade One students have been focusing on word choice where they have enjoyed collecting words that they like.
Unfortunately, due to COVID restrictions, we will not be having a Mother’s Day Concert this year. However, all children in Prep, Grade 1 and Grade 2 will be having a Mother's Day song filmed and would love to present their song clips to celebrate Mother’s Day.
Video clips will be sent out via Compass next week.
Happy Mother’s Day !!!
Welcome to Term 2! I’d like to introduce myself as the new Librarian and ask for your help in making your child a lifelong library user! Classes will be participating in many exciting and engaging activities in the library this year, including borrowing sessions and a Book Fair. Currently, the library is getting a bit of a makeover, and the building taking place in the school has included some construction work to the library, which is why there has been a delay in getting students borrowing books again.
The library will be opening for borrowing to all students in a few weeks’ time, but in the meanwhile it would be great if families could have a look at home to see if your child has any Library books that need to be returned. I understand that with the COVID-19 lockdowns over the past few years that borrowing and returning books was a bit tricky, but it would be much appreciated if any books found get returned to the library as soon as possible, so that the books can be enjoyed by other children.
Happy reading!
Miss Olivia Keet
Thank you for supporting the Good Friday Appeal this year by donating gold coin on our annual Hat Parade. We raised $218.70 which will support the Royal Children's Hospital.
A big thank you to everyone who bought an ANZAC day badge for the ANZAC Appeal.
Anita Chan (JSC co-ordinator)
Dad Joke of the week
Maybe I should have cooked it on Aloha temperature
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