Making Mosaic Tiles For the School Garden with Our Buddies

Lunch at School

Yum! Yum! We Really Are Pretty Good Cooks!

Just before the holidays we made our own lunch at school.

Some people made hot dogs and others made their own pizza's.

100 Days of School

Check out these great crowns! They are just a sample of some of the activities we did last Thursday to celebrate the 100th day ofschool.

D1 NEWS Week 2 Term 3

REMINDERS

·         Sci Tech money due now

·         100 days collection of items due this week

·         D2 assembly Wednesday of Week 2

·         Our class assembly August 29^th

·         Open Night  Thurs 30^th Aug

·         Dress up as a champion Aug 31^st

Today I will be in the school but working outside the classroom. I will be there to assist Mr King should he need it as both Mrs Berkhout and Ms Della-Vedova will be absent. Miss Emma Bradshaw will be the D1 teacher today and I am sure both the children and Miss Bradshaw will have a good day.  Emma completed her teacher training in D2 with Mrs Kissick earlier this year.

100 DAYS OF SCHOOL

We had lots of fun last Thursday with our 100 day activities and I hope the children were able to tell you a little about the morning.  I am hoping to have some of the children’s writing in the school newsletter this week but please take a minute or two to see their writing hanging in the room.

COLLECTION OF 100 THINGS

Even though our 100 day celebrations are over, it would be great if all children could bring along their little bag of one hundred items. So far we have had straws, beads, noodles, rice, stones, coins, gum balls and beads. It has been so interesting to see the collections come in and I am hopeful that the others coming will be just as interesting. The bar has been lifted quite high!

SCI TECH VISIT

This incursion will be next Monday 6^th August at 11:20 am for our class. There will be a 30 minute demonstration by the Sci Tech crew and a 30 minute hands on activity to follow. The advantage of these visits is that they can provide experiences that we are unable to provide at school. The $4.60 is well worth it.  

OLYMPICS

I am hoping that the children were able to see at least some of the opening ceremony and have been able to watch some of the events so far. This week our focus will be on learning a little about the sports that are involved and next week we will commence our study of some of the countries involved. I am sending home an outline of the sport investigation the children will be doing in class but there is so much for them to learn. Not only do I have to find some text that is easy enough for the children to read but I have to teach them to take notes and then later use those notes in a report. It is a big ask for children so young but we will have a go. Any help you can offer from home would be warmly welcomed.

SPELLING CHANGES

Today I am sending home the test the children completed last Friday. The test was of 80 words so it was quite a mammoth task. I am hoping it will give you more of an idea where to start your child or which words to focus on. Those children who made odd errors or those who make a big effort to learn their words may come to school and ask a testing buddy to call the words out for them on any day this week. Friday’s will be kept for whole lists of words. Some children are very close to moving onto their next list.

The website for the word lists is

http://www.uniqueteachingresources.com/Fry-1000-Instant-Words.html

 

CONGRATULATIONS

Honour certificates will be presented to Lennon, Ashley and Larsen this week to acknowledge their progress. Congratulations to them all. The assembly will start at 1:50pm.

WOOLWORTHS STICKERS

I have been told that there has been an extension for the collections of stickers so please save them for us.

D1 Class News Week 1 Term 3

100 DAYS OF SCHOOL

This coming Thursday will be the 100^th day of school for the year and we will do some fun activities to celebrate.  I am hoping some parents will spare us some time in the first hour of the morning from around 9:00 to supervise a small group of children while they do an activity. Please let me know if you can help out.

COLLECTION OF 100 THINGS

During this week I would like everyone to bring a collection of 100 things in a small (sandwich size) plastic bag for display in the room. Things brought in previous years have included – toothpicks, grains of rice, bottle tops, paper clips etc. As long as the bags are named, all items will be returned after a few weeks.

SCI TECH

Please send the money in for the Sci Tech incursion  if you haven’t already done so. If the paper work has been misplaced, please ask for another one.

WELCOME BACK MRS GLEW

The teacher replacing Mrs Glew has another position for the next seven weeks so we will have Deb back for the second, fourth and sixth Wednesdays this term.

OLYMPICS

With the Olympics starting at the end of the week, we will make this our focus for the next few weeks. We will start with a little history of the games and then investigate some of the sports involved and then later some of the countries participating.

One of the major projects the children will do in class as long as we have access to computers is to research some of the Olympic sports. The children will find information about the rules, the number of players, a little of its history and previous stars in the field. I am hoping they will then track how the Australians are doing in the games in their sport so they can keep the class updated if possible. By the end of the games I anticipate the children will be aware of what medals the Australian team has won and how they are doing overall. Any help from home to find information would be really appreciated. It would be of great benefit if the children could watch at least some of the opening ceremony at home but I will try to tape it for those who do not get this opportunity.

I will post the framework for the sports investigations on the homework page of the blog.

READING BOOKS

We still have several reading books yet to be returned and your help in finding them would be truly appreciated. I have put out new books but the children MUST date the name of the book they take home and highlight it when it is returned. If they had done this properly last term it would have been much easier to track where these missing books were. If you have a few minutes to spare in the morning I would love someone to check the children as they take a new book.

CHANGES THIS TERM

The school motto is Pride, Excellence and Respect and I aim to develop each of these as much as I possibly can. This term I plan to have samples of work or photos as evidence of each of these on display in the room as they happen in the class. I am also recording when the children demonstrate personal organisation and respect and will acknowledge and celebrate that publically on a regular basis.

I am changing the way we will do spelling this term in the hope that the children will master the phonics they require for successful writing. In the class the spelling will be based solely on phonics but I am sending home a list of sight words for the children to practise for homework. Instructions will be sent home with the list. The children will not take home a separate list each week so please read the note I am sending home.  For access to all the lists please look at the link below.  This will encourage the children striving for excellence to push themselves as far as they can.

Hello everyone.Welcome back to the third school term at Canning Vale Primary School. We had delightful weather over the holidays and I was able to do lots of pruning and tidying up of the back yard at home.

This term we will link our school work to the Olympics and see what we can learn about the different Olympic sports and the countries that are participating.

Don't forget to check the newsletters each week and have a look at the homework for Weeks 1- 5. On the homework page there will be copy of the framework for the Olympic sports investigation.

The newsletter this week is on the Newsletter page to the right so please check it for further information.

REMINDERS

·         Monday July 2^nd reports should be arriving in the mail

·         Wednesday July 4^th NO LUNCH REQUIRED

·         LIBRARY BOOKS and READING BOOKS returned please.

·         Please return the yellow forms to indicate whether your child will be returning to CVPS in 2013.

·         School resumes for students on TUESDAY JULY 24^th. The teachers will start the day before.

Farm Visit

On Wednesday June 20th, the Year Two children from D1 (De Grey Room 1) travelled by bus to the farm school at the Kelmscott Senior High School. They were joined by the children from D2 and a group of great parent helpers. Although it was a cold, wet day we had a fantastic time and we now know so much more about farm life.

The photos included here are just a few of those taken by Mrs Bradley and we hope to add a lot more in the Photo Album page as soon as we can.

Welcome

Welcome everyone. I have set up this blog so we can share all the wonderful things we do in class at Canning Vale Primary School in Perth, Western Australia. The children are in Year Two and aged between 6 and 7 with some about to turn 8 years of age. Canning Vale is a large metropolitan school in the southern suburbs of Perth.