Christmas Thank You

Thank you parents for the Christmas gifts and for coming to the Christmas Concert.  Have a Merry Christmas !

Google Keep

We had a very helpful learning session this morning in grade 6 learning how to be better organised using Google Keep.

Great tool for the 6's to use as they move on to high school next year. Have them show you how to use it and explore it with them.

Grade 4/5 Class Party

On Wednesday (Dec 18) we will be watching a movie in the afternoon and students are allowed to bring snacks in. Please remember to keep snacks nut and sesame seed free.

Thursday is the rehearsal and performance for students so please make sure students are here that afternoon to get that last full practice in. 

Christmas Concert Schedule

A reminder that the junior Christmas concert is on Friday December 20th. It starts at 10:50.

The afternoon gr 4/5 class is scheduled to go 5th. I have no clue what time that will be, but each class performance should run between 3-5 mins. This group is under the direction of Mr Spindler.

The gr 6's are with me and they will be in the 6th spot.

I hope this helps you plan around your work schedules in you are looking to catch the show.

Learning About Lions

The grade 4/5 class spent time today with National Geographic and conservationist Dr Andrew Stein  online as we learned about lions.

Jonah and Lawson the Lion come on screen around the 29 min mark with our question. Feel free to rewatch it with your child and discuss what they learned.

New Religion Teacher Gr 6

An email should have gone out today to inform grade 6 parents that due to schedule changes, there has been a switch for grade 6 religion. Ms Ferguson (who is replacing Ms Bontes) will be taking over for Mrs O'Neil as of next week.

Thursday Lacrosse

Congratulations to the Lions in both my morning and afternoon classes who made the lacrosse teams.  I'm excited to be coaching the boy's team and will be taking them to the Oz Dome on Thursday. The girl's teams will also be joining us.

This means a supply teacher all day on Thursday.

Class Update

All 3 grades are half way through their book clubs. I am very proud of how engaged they are and how much they are enjoying their books. In addition to the lost art of reading a book they are doing, students are also summarising and answering comprehension questions.

Each student has a duotang they are working out of and the gr 6's are working with a combo of paper and tech to complete their weekly work assignments.

Gr 4' are reading - Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing and the One and Only Ivan.

Gr 5's are reading - The One and Only Ivan, 39 Clues The Maze of Bones, and The Unteachables.

Gr 6's are reading - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, The Giver, Gathering Blue,
                    Coraline, The One and Only Ivan, 39 Clues, Losing Joe's Place, and What's His Face.


The morning class is also putting in practice for the Christmas concert and have been coding with their kindergarten buddy class. They learned how to code (thank you Finn) their own video games using Scratch and then brainstormed with their kinder buddy to design a game based on their younger friend's ideas. Trust me, the kinders had some pretty far out and cool ideas to turn into a video game!

The afternoon class is getting special visits from Mr Spindler as he prepares them for the Christmas concert.

Religion continues with Mrs O'Neill as she prepares them for Advent. Morning parents, look for an email from the school on Thursday about a change in the schedule.

Our last math strand is wrapping up for term 1 in the next week and that gives us more time to prepare for the Christmas concert. It also gives us the opportunity to explore coding and spend time working outside the box on fun ideas.

Looking For

The grade 6 class is looking for 1-2 large cardboard boxes for the Xmas Concert. They need to turn them into stand up trees for their stage.  Even if the boxes are large enough for us to glue together that should work too.