WA Week

WA week

Every year our school likes to celebrate WA Day with a whole school activity.

To celebrate our magnificent state this year, children are asked to bring a copy of a photograph taken somewhere they may have visited in Western Australia. This needs to be a copy of the photograph as IT WILL NOT BE RETURNED.

The children need to be prepared to give a 2 min talk on where the photograph was taken, where this place is located on a map of Western Australia and something special about that place.

Photos will then be glued onto a giant WA DAY which will be on display for the week.

Tuesday June 5	Wednesday June 6	Thursday June 7	Friday June 8
Charlotte	Emily	Noah	Danny
Eisha	Alisina	Sahar	Grace
Aadidev	Isabel	Benjamin	Thomas
Connor	Natasha	Leah	Han Yu
Christian	Kiara	Tessa	Lachlan
Edlyn	Sarthak

Please see the table below for 

the day your child is scheduled to bring in the photo and do their talk.

Super Scientists

WOW look at these dioramas! 

The children (Biologists) were given a choice of 3 habitats to do a science investigation on. 

The Australian Desert, The Great Barrier Reef and The Snowy Mountains. 

They had to research 2 animals and 2 plants from their chosen habitat along with any non living things. Then they had to research what might have a damaging effect on that habitat. Climate change or human impact. They wrote some amazing reports to go along with their dioramas. I have displayed these on the wall at the back of the classroom. Come in and have a peek.

Great work Super Scientists!

Super Scientist Presentations Timetable

Term 2

Hello to everyone again! We are well into Term 2 now. Here’s a snapshot of what to expect.

We have spent the first few weeks of the term revising concepts to prepare for NAPLAN. I am very proud of the way your children conducted themselves during the NAPLAN testing time. Each one gave their very best effort with a positive attitude. I couldn’t have asked for more.

As we move into the remaining weeks of the term we can expect to cover topics such as;

English

·         Visual Literacy - picture books, advertisements and short films

·         Reading Strategies such as predicting, self-questioning, creating images, connecting, summarising and main idea

·         Grammar - verbs (action, saying, thinking), clauses in complex sentences and collective nouns

·         Punctuation - quotation marks, ellipses, brackets, colons and hyphens

·         Spelling - suffixes ern and ful, phonemes augh, i, eigh, ou, ary, ough, ent, al

along with some spelling rules

·         Speaking & Listening - super scientist, WA Day

Maths

·         measurement - length, mass, capacity

·         symmetry

·         number

·         chance

Science

We will be studying biological science, discovering the characteristics of plants and animals and how they are classified. This will lead into an exploration of a habitat. Children will identify the living, once living and non-living things in that habitat. They will then conduct an investigation into how climate change will affect that habitat.

HASS

We will be looking at how things have changed from the past to the present. Toys, communication, transport etc.

Just a reminder that Super Scientist is just around the corner. You would have received a note about this. I will post the timetable up next to the classroom door for students to see what day they are scheduled to present their experiment.

So much fun to be had in Room 19!!