Week 2 Postcard

Well done to Keighan who received the postcard for this week.
Keighan is always amazing in the classroom. She gives her best effort and tries her hardest. She is always caring and kind to the people around her. Keep up the good work Keighan!

Homework Week 2

Hi everyone,
There is homework this week, but I forgot to hand the worksheets out! You can collect them tomorrow, but here is most of it.


Spelling

Group 1		Group 2		Group 3
accountant		doctor		year
architect		plumber		also
designer		firefighter		cool
mathematician		police		eyes
geologist		nurse		head
surgeon		pilot		jump
jeweller		painter		always
illustrator		artist		dark
telecommunications		physiotherapist		electrician

The bottom word is your challenge word. If you get 8/8 on your test, you get to try and spell this harder word for an extra bonus.

Basic Facts

You have got your next basic facts to learn- this is different for everyone, so you will need to remember what yours is.

Reading

Read for twenty minutes, and summarise books. They all count towards your reading log. 

If you have any questions, post them in the comments and I will try to answer them,

Week 1 Round-up

Hi everyone,
Welcome back to school!
We have had such a busy week.

Here are some of the highlights!

Art

We have been learning some sketching skills and techniques

 The start of Khushi's Zebra

Shaydn's eye sketch

Victoria's Minion

Maths

We have been learning some of the different features of different kinds of graphs.

Oskar's Bar Graph

Ruby's Pie Graph

Writing

We have been writing some stories from the perspective of an animal or object on it's average day.

The students were trying to give the reader clues about what creature or object they were without saying what it was.

Connor's awesome story

A day in my life

My clock goes off. Tweet, tweet, tweet! I hit it with my leg and it stops. I get out of my leafy bed and I go into the kitchen. My wife caught a fly for breakfast. After a nice breakfast, I go into the bathroom to brush my fangs and then I go to work. My boss says that I am the Hunter of the Month! I built a web so we can sit on it’s soft silk. After a nice days hunting, I return home. For lunch, me and my wife had a paper wasp. I accidently ate it’s stinger. I had to go to the doctors. The doctor said that I have to be more careful. After that, we noticed our babies had hatched. For dinner, my wife had a bee, and I ate a ladybug (remember what the doctor said). For dessert, we had a glass of venom. Then we had a bath in the pond. We brushed our fangs and went to bed. What a good day!

Reading

We have been learning how to summarise what we have read. This is an important reading skill.

We are practicing so we can prove that we have read for our reading log. Come in and check it out!

Pride Award

This week's Pride award went to Nikita Graham who has shown excellent reading progress. She is doing a good job of practicing her reading and she has great improvements to show for it. Awesome!

Certificates

Shaydn- Excellent artwork

Jamie- Fabulous reading progress

Paige- For being a learning superstar

Caitlin- For being a good friend to others and helping

Ruby- For amazing homework this week

Postcard

The postcard this week went to Caitlin. She has made great progress with her learning this year, and I am very pleased with the sensibility and maturity she has shown this week. She has been a lovely helper to others and she is leading her party well. Keep up the amazing work Caitlin!

Postcard Week 10

Well done to Casey who received the postcard at the end of Term 3.

Casey has been trying really hard to improve with his school work, and he has been staying on task really well. He is making great behaviour choices!

Keep up the good work next term Casey!

Fact of the Day

Did you know, Jupiter is covered in swirling gas clouds, so it looks different every day. The largest gas is called the great red spot. This is a storm  that is bigger than earth and has lasted for hundreds of years.



What an amazing fact!

Tuesday Fact of the Day

The anglerfish has a fleshy organ, called the esca, that sticks out of its body like a fishing rod. It uses this organ to lure prey close enough for it to attack.

What an interesting fact!

Fact of the Day

This is Connor's first Fact of the Day for the week.

Did you know, a tarantula`s venom is less dangerous than a bee`s sting!

Term 3 quiz champions

Well done to Paige and Oskar who tied for first place in the quiz on Friday.

Top Scores
65- Paige, Oskar
64- Ruby
61- Liske
60- Georgia, Victoria, Connor

Well done to these category masters (The people who got every question in a category right)
Victoria- Maths Shapes
Bodie- Reading Graphs, Maths Shapes
Casey- Reading Graphs
Caleb- Maths Shapes

Election Update

The class ballots have been tallied and there is an outright new Room 12 Prime Minister.
However, this person will be charged with creating a government tomorrow and attempting to meet to get some policy through.

Tomorrow all kids will be assigned to a political party, based on the number of party votes each team received. The teams will need to work together to try and implement their policies, and I imagine that compromise will be a word we practice this week.

I can't wait to see what happens!

Postcard Week 9

Well done to Victoria who was the postcard earner this week.

Victoria gives her very best to everything that she does!

She is an absolutely amazing class member, who is an excellent leader, but an equally good team member. I am so proud of her!

Pirate fun

Pirate day was a raging success this Friday with most people dressing up.
The fierce trio above are Georgia, Liske and Tia.

Election week

This week, Room 12 will be holding a mock election for a class prime minister.

Today students were allowed to form their own "parties" and had to find a way to choose the leader of their party.
They will also be campaigning on some ideas to try and get their classmates to vote for them. There were many interesting and good ideas coming from the groups. There will be speech writing, a mock debate and some more interesting activities.

This is very topical learning, and will hopefully help the students gain some understanding of how the government is structured, and also the tough choices that adults have to make when deciding who to vote for.

Homework Week 9

Hi everyone,

Please remember that your homework this week is to prepare for the end of week quiz. Each day you will find out two of the categories so that you can get practicing.

There will be a big quiz on Friday which you can earn fern dollars in. Fern dollars are extra important this week because this Friday is the catalogue ordering day.

You will be working on your own, and the harder you practice this week, the better you will do on the quiz.

Categories
1. The 2014 election
2. Spelling
3. Current Events
4. Sports
5. Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs
6. Maths-reading graphs
7. Maths- shapes
8. Who am I?/Famous faces
9. Entertainent
10. Room 12

Postcard person: George

George has had a fantastic week this week. He did an awesome job of his running at the Cross Country on Thursday, and has been really working super hard with his class work. Today he was the very first person finished all of his school work!

George is excellent at pushing himself with his learning. He always uses beautiful manners when he talks with others and has great ideas!

What a fantastic week you have had George! Well done!

Cross Country Results

Well done to all of Room 12 who gave their very best effort in the Cross Country this week. we have got many students going to the interschools next week, and many who placed in the top ten.

I was so proud of how hard every student tried- you were all amazing! Some people decided to push themselves into the competitive race too!

Here are the students who placed in the top ten for their age across the school.

Year 4 girls fun run

2nd- Victoria

3rd-Khushi

7th- Ruby

Year 4 boys fun run

7th- Campbell

9th- Izrael

Year 3 girls competitive

1st-Paige

3rd-Mya

4th- Skyla

8th- Tia

Year 4 girls competitive

1st- Caitlin

2nd- Liske

3rd- Emma

4th-  Georgia

5th-Jasmine

6th-Keighan

7th-Tarshay

Year 3 boys competitive

1st-  George

Year 4 boys competitive

3rd- Bodie

9th- Logan

I was so impressed with the excellent participation and extreme effort the students put into their Cross Country running.

Bird Memorisation Champions

Well done to Campbell and Connor who were the Room 12 bird memorisation champions. They both got all 20 correct, and received $70 each!

Special mention to these students who each got 19.
Tia, Oskar, Logan, Liske and Mya.

Cool websites

We looked at these two websites over the last couple of days. Show your parents!

This one is the recycling ideas website.
Recycling

This one is the artist
The artist

This is awesome!
Online Lego building

Term 3 catalogue

Hi everyone,
What are you hoping will be in the catalogue this term?
How much money have you got to spend?

Week 8 homework- Memorisation Challenge

Hi everyone,
This weeks homework is the memory challenge. It is a great skill to practice, and each term we spend just one week trying to learn some names to practice this skill. Here are this term's memorising pictures and words.

Rainbow Lorikeet

African Grey Parrot

Budgerigar

Cockatoo

Canary

Cockatiel

Dotterel

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Eagle

Eclectus Parrot

Fantail

Galah

Kea

Macaw

Mallard Duck

Weka

Red collared Lorikeet

Sparrow

Tui

Vulture

Zebra Finch

Postcard Week 7

Well done to Liske who received the postcard this week. Mrs Love had to rely on the student's vote to let her know who had been awesome this week. Liske got the most votes.

Liske is a superstar learner with a beautiful attitude. She always gives her very best, and is absolutely a deserving postcard recipient.

Liske is amazing!