Last day of term one

I can't believe it is the end of term one already! I have had a fabulous term and want to thank you all for making me feel so welcome. The students of Room 3 have been working so hard. I love their keenness to learn and their curiosity. 

We're going to finish off the term with a swim (if the weather is as nice as it is today). Please, if you don't want your child to swim that is ok. They will still do something fun while the others are swimming. 

And if the weather is terrible, we will play a game inside instead.

I'm doing running records again at the moment. You may see new levels of books coming home next term.  You should be seeing Race to the Treasure cards in your child's book bag either this week or early term two.  Play games using these cards and practice them whenever you can. 

I'll be scheduling six-year net meetings in term 2. These are quick meetings to go through the six year net tests some students have completed. Keep an eye out for a letter early in term 2. 

Thanks so much again for your support for a great term. The kids are all yours for two weeks :)

Looking forward to seeing you in term 2!

Cushla

Saving our Sea

Today we were visited by Olliver from Sustainable Coastlines. He talked about his job as an Oceanographer and his mission to try and clean up our sea. He showed us pictures of rubbish that had washed up on a deserted island and the tiny plastic particles that fish eat thinking it's food. 

Inspired by his talk, we focused our writing today on Saving Our Sea. The message is to pick up litter and put it in the rubbish and to clean up our beaches. Room 3 was very passionate about this. Keep an eye out for some of our published pieces of writing in the next few days.

Olliver and his friends from Sustainable Coastlines will be at Fitzroy beach every afternoon after school this week, cleaning up the beach and handing out spot prizes. All children and parents are invited to pop down and say hi. Let me know if you make it down there to help. 

Mrs Young

Floating By Holly

The Rocky Shore By Travis

All kinds of seeds By Ella L

Seeds changing on the ground By Nathan

Where do apples come from? By Cooper

Changing Seeds by Quin

Sound for the week

Hi everyone! 

This week we're beginning a new routine in our spelling notebooks. Tomorrow students will have a "sound for the week" graphic in their notebooks. This will let you know what blend we are studying. There are a few things you could do at home to support learning at school... Point out all the objects in the house that have this blend. Play Eye Spy with the blend. Make up silly songs. 

So.... The blend for this week is Ch. 

You can look at words with this at the beginning, middle or end: as in chicken, teacher or ditch. 

This week's language experience is all about the change in the weather. We learnt what a meteorologist is. We're going to observe the weather this week. By the way... If anyone has a rain gauge at home that you're not using, we'd love one. We're hoping to collect weather data and then graph it over time. 

Have fun with the blend. I'll attempt to remember, each Monday, to post the sound of the week :) 

Cushla