Term 2

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Posted by kristagill | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on April 30, 2017

Welcome back. We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter and an enjoyable holiday with family and friends.

Dont forget tomorrow is a Pupil Free Day but we look forward to seeing many bright smiling faces on Tuesday.

We were so proud of the class in Term 1. They worked hard and worked together and made a wonderful start to the year. We look forward to another successful term ahead

See you Tuesday

Krista & Suzy 😊

 

Enterprise Day

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Posted by kristagill | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on April 13, 2017

What a fantatsic afternoon!

Congratulations to all the students in Room 17 & 18 on a hugely successful Sweets Stall.

We sold out of all our products and look forward to finding out how much money we helped to raise for the school.

Students worked hard to organise, make and sell the products and their efforts are to be congratulated. I am very proud of all their hard work.

Thank you again for all the parent support in helping us to make the products, donating ingredients or lending platters and containers. Thank you also to those that were able to come along on the day and support our class by buying a sweet treat. They were delicious.

Krista â˜ș

 

A Sweet Success

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Posted by kristagill | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on April 10, 2017

All our sweets are now made and ready to sell at Enterprise Day.

A big thank you to Paula, Kelly, Leanne, Deb and Katie for coming in to help our groups make their products. It was noisy, organised chaos lol so your help was really appreciated.

Also thank you to everyone who helped out by sending in food, containers and platters. Anything that wasn’t used or was left over from today has been sent home. I will have all the platters, containers and chocolate moulds washed and ready to send home on Thursday.

Thank you â˜ș

 

Week 11 Information

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Posted by kristagill | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on April 9, 2017

Wow the last week of Term and we are finishing off with a busy week.

We will be making our Enterprise day sweets tomorrow, between recess and lunch, and then of course Enterprise day on Wednesday.

Due to this busy and short week there will be no spelling words for students to learn this week instead on Tuesday I will be testing them on all the words they have had this term. This will give me insight into who is focusing on the sounds and spelling patterns in their words and creating connections between other words they know with similar patterns. We will also be looking at some NAPLAN style question around spelling as well as reading and Maths. Finally we will also try to squeeze in some Easter activities. Who is exhausted just thinking about it 😁

There will also be no Homework Bingo this week.

Enterprise Day

CLGPS Enterprise Day, Wednesday the 12th of April, 2017.

Room 17&18’s Sweet Stall will be located near the Reade building.

Sales: take place from 12:30pm to 2:00pm only. No ‘early bird’ sales.Students may bring between $5 and $15, depending upon their age. Students will need a shopping bag to carry their purchases – and so may you! Please remember to bring gold and silver coins. Prices will range from 10c to $5. Notes can be changed at the Finance Window between 12:30pm and 1:00pm ONLY.

Canteen: There will be no canteen for either recess or lunch on Enterprise Day.

Parking: In the laneway and on West Parkway (be gone before 3pm); at the Baseball Club car park and walk across the oval; and in the streets surrounding the school. Please be considerate of our neighbours and do not park across or very close to driveways.

Help and questions: See a member of the school staff, all wearing pink high-visibility vests.

First Aid: Available at the School Office.

Toilets for adults: Please use the toilets at the Doolette building. Children’s toilets are for children only.

Catering: There is a coffee van available for adults and the food for the day will include a Sausage sizzle, Sushi, Canadian Poutine, Healthy Wraps, Indian Food and Toasties.

Students will be dismissed at 3.10pm: Please do not take students early, as the class reviews our Enterprise Day from 2.30 to 3:10pm and it is an important part of their learning.

We are looking forward to seeing you all there!

Last Day of Term

A reminder that school finishes 2.10 this Thursday the 13th of April

It is also a casual day on Thursday for a gold coin donation. If students come in casual clothes, they must have a gold coin. Of course they can still choose to wear school uniform if they prefer.

Newspaper Tower Challenge

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Posted by kristagill | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on April 5, 2017

Team work Tuesday this week was another building challenge. Their task was to work together to build the tallest freestanding tower that could support a tennis ball and stand upright long enough to be measured. They had only newspaper, a roll of masking tape and scissors. Students had 30 minutes.

Groups worked quickly to start building a sturdy base and discovered rolling up newspaper helped to make the strongest structure. In the end our two tallest towers that were able to support a tennis ball  in the time given were 100 and 102cm.

Well done everyone â˜ș

  

Enterprise Day Update

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Posted by kristagill | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on April 5, 2017

We are going to be making our sweets NEXT MONDAY – 10th between Recess and Lunch (11:15 to 1:00). We would love some parent helpers to come and assist us. ( thankyou to those who have said they are available on this day. I hope the this time is ok) It could be for the whole time or just part. We also have the option of doing more on the Tuesday if we need more time or more products. Most of the sweets can be made in the classroom/foyer but we will need some helpers in the staff room.

Thank you to those who have also donated some food and chocolate moulds. So far we have a tin of milo, bag of marshmallows, packet of Tim Tams, popping candy and a block of chocolate. We are still in need of more. So if you are able to donate anything this week that would be greatly appreciated. Then i can see what we have and can purchase anything extra we need on the weekend.

We are also looking for:
*containers with lids to store our sweets in the fridge
*trays to put our sweets on when selling them
If you are able to supply either of these items please ensure names are on them. These items can also be brought to school this week.

Thank you for all your help

Krista â˜ș

Notes

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Posted by kristagill | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on April 2, 2017

Ok Final Blog post for tonight, sorry to bombard your email 🙂

Last week two notes went home. The first was a note about a new version of LearnLink the students will have access to. If this note could be signed and returned Tomorrow or Tuesday at the latest that would be great. The note is simple to acknowledge that you are aware of the new version and its features and are happy for your child to access this. Mr Blight will be collecting them as soon as possible  this week. Apologies you didn’t get it sooner ( you may have noticed the date on the note) They were caught between some books in my school bag. Once we have them back we will have a time booked in the computer room for students to log in with their username and password and send me an email.

The second note was about Easter Christian Option Seminars which will be running on Thursday. Year 3’s will be going at 9.15. This seminar is entirely voluntary, students can only attend if they have a signed permission slip. Any students not attending will remain in class with one or two of the year 3 teachers.

I hope everyone had a great weekend

See you tomorrow

Krista 🙂

Enterprise Day

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Posted by kristagill | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on April 2, 2017

 

Enterprise Day is fast approaching on Wednesday Week 11. For Enterprise Day we are working together with Room 18 to have a Sweets Stall. Each class will be making 4 simple treats to sell.

Our class has chosen to make Smiley face biscuits, Milo Balls ( I think they have changed to Tim Tam balls), Chocolate marshmallows and Chocolate moulds.

     

We have divided our class into 4 groups and on the Monday and Tuesday before Enterprise day we will make our sweet treats ready to sell.

In order to make our treats we are asking for donations. Perhaps if you are able to supply something to the group your child is in, any thing would be greatly appreciated.

The students have worked in their groups to make a list of what they will need. We don’t need a large amount. We are thinking at the most we will make 30 – 40 of each product. Everything in moderation 🙂

Smiley biscuits – 3 packets of arrowroot biscuits,  2 bags of lolly snakes, freckles, smarties, icing sugar and food colouring

Tim Tam Balls – 2 packets of Tim Tams, 2 tins of condensed Milk, coconut, chocolate sprinkles

Chocolate Marshmallows -3 or 4 bags of marshmallows, sprinkles, skewers,  White and Milk chocolate to melt –  1 block of each

Chocolate Moulds – Moulds (any design although Easter ones would be perfect) 4 Blocks of white Chocolate, 4 blocks of dark chocolate, Popping candy.

Any plastic platters or trays that we can put our finished products  on, would also be great also. Of course they will  be washed and returned to you.

Finally, if you are available next Monday or Tuesday ( I will let you know more specific times soon) We would love some parent help. Ideally I would love an adult to help with each group. While we have picked simple treats that don’t require cooking, we will need some adults to pop down to the staffroom to melt some chocolate and also to help each group run smoothly (make sure they don’t eat all the products lol ) 🙂

Krista & Suzy 🙂

 

 

 

 

Just For Fun

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Posted by kristagill | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on April 2, 2017

Trays! a breeding ground for mess 🙂

To encourage students to keep their belongings clean and tidy. Every now and then the Tray Fairy ( o.k it’s me😀)  will be doing spot checks of students trays. A clean tidy tray ensures things aren’t lost, which in turn helps students be responsible and organised ready for lessons.

Team Work Tuesday

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Posted by kristagill | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on April 2, 2017

The definition of crazy may be  doing an activity involving an endless amount of spaghetti and marshmallows on a Tuesday afternoon right before parent interviews 😂😂 The classroom looked like a spaghetti explosion and students were covered in marshmallow dust but they enjoyed the activity, worked well in teams and cleaned up amazingly. They may have enjoyed one or two left over marshmallows at the end😀

A previous challenge involved 20 sticks of spaghetti, 1 metre of sticky tape and one marshmallow which had to balance on the top of a free standing tower. This time they had a whole bag of marshmallows and unlimited spaghetti sticks in each team. The challenge was to build the tallest tower in 20 minutes.

The first few minutes I let them go to see their strategies. Then I stopped them to remind them that their tower had to stand up on its own so they really needed to think of ways or shapes to create a sturdy base. This made some groups change their strategies and we started to see a few teams experiment with cubes. We will explore some of these construction and engineering concepts before our next team Work Tuesday.

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