Oakvale Farm Excursion

I have noticed that some students have not paid for the Oakvale excursion next Friday 9th September. The cost is $38 per student. It would be great if those students could please make their payment as soon as possible. Also, let your child's teacher know if they are not attending, so that we don't have to chase them about their money.

We only had 17 seats available for parents, and therefore had to draw names out of a hat.Notes have been sent home letting parents know if if they are the "helper" parents. If you have NOT been notified, then please ask your child's teacher.  Parent helpers can send in their money $38 to the office asap. We would like to thank ALL the parents for their offers of assistance......it is always most appreciated.

We are very excited about our upcoming excursion. Here are just a few things to remember:

• Each child needs their own packed lunch/recess/snacks/drink - NO SPENDING MONEY
• Pack a jumper and sunscreen
• The students will be entertained with movies and fun activities along the way, they DON'T need to bring any toys/games/etc
• Bus departs Scone Public School at 8am sharp.......don't be late!
• Bus arrives back at Scone at 4pm......Kids will not be back in time for buses, so each student must be collected by an adult/family member. If another parent is going to take your child home, then the teacher must be notified in writing before the excursion day.

John Heffernan - Author Visit

Last Friday, author John Heffernan visited our school. He spoke to us about the books he had written and he even told us about a new story he is writing at the moment. We really enjoyed listening to his stories, especially the one about the sheep that went to the beach with him. We laughed and laughed.

Here are a few pictures from the day.

Fruit Break

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Every day we stop for 15 minutes (during the morning) and eat some fruit. We love this time....as you can see from the pictures!

Sight Word Painting

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Today, for Sight Word Smashers, we took our words outside and painted them on the concrete using water! We had a great time!

Maths Groups - Thursday

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We have been learning about time and growing patterns. Today we made our own clocks, played time games on the smartboard, made our own growing patterns and did some tricky add ups. Our teacher thinks we are nearly ready for Year 1!

Sight Word Smashers

In KC and KF we start every day with "Sight Word Smashers"!
We sing our sight word song - Mrs Carter likes to dress up as a Policewoman (maybe one day we will get a photo of her!)

The song goes like this:

We've got so many words to learn
You can't sound 'em out at all.
Learning sight words can be fun
We're gonna smash 'em one by one!

The children repeat it after the teacher (military style) hahaha!

Then we go to our spellephants (at our desk) and write our 3 new sight words.

After that we play a game or do a short activity using our sights words. Today we made the words using magnetic letters! We had fun!

Other days we play sight word bingo, write them on paper with coloured texta's, and sometimes we paint them on the concrete using water and paint brush (as long as it is sunny).

Learning about Echidna's



Kindy Kids - leave a comment and tell everyone something interesting you learnt about echidna's today! You can leave your comment at the end of the slideshow if you want!

Savannah's Typing

James' Writing

I love your spelling James! Wonderful sounding out!!!

Gabby's Writing

Term 3 Week 6

Phonics

This week we are learning

      ou     &     oi

If you have fridge magnet letters at home, then try making some of these words:

 

Literacy

The children are still learning the same big books as last week.

Author Visit

John Heffernan is visiting our school on Friday. This event is free. The students will be attending an information/discussion session with him throughout the day. We are definitely looking forward to that!

Book Week

This Friday, we are commencing our Book Week Celebrations! Students will be meeting John Heffernan. There will also be a Book fair set up in the Library all week. Parents are most welcome to come in and purchase some great discounted books and items. The profits will go to the Scone Public Library - so that we can buy more books!

Orientation Day

The new Kindergarten students and their parents will be coming next Thursday 1st September. They will spend a bit of time in the Kindy classroom. We are very excitied and can't wait to meet them. Their parents will be finding out lots of info about our wonderful school. If you could help out by providing and/or serving some morning tea it would be much appreciated. Please let your class teacher know if you can be there!

Fantastic Maths Websites

Recently, some parents and other teachers have been asking for the websites that I use to integrate technology and mainly the Smartboard into my lessons. Well I've tried to find and collate all my favourites and list them here for you.

Let your child loose on the computer with some of these terrific games.

If they are in my class then they should know how to navigate most of the pages and should also know many of the games already!


Have FUN!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/

http://www.studdyladder.com.au

http://www.copacabana-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/Get_Smart.htm

http://au.ixl.com/

http://www.abc.net.au/countusin/games.htm

http://www.ictgames.com/resources.html

http://pbskids.org/whiteboard/

http://www.uen.org/k-2interactives/

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.aspx

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/DogBone/gamebone.html

http://www.coolmath4kids.com/

http://www.mathplayground.com/games.html

http://www.primarygames.com/math.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/

http://www.abc.net.au/countusin/default.htm

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw//manip/mn_1.html

http://illuminations.nctm.org/Activities.aspx?grade=1

http://nlvm.usu.edu/

http://nrich.maths.org/public/search.php?search=&filters[type]=2

Australian money manipulatives - http://www.rosettaprimary.tased.edu.au/mathsobjects/

Printable resources – www.teachthis.com.au and http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/australia/

Thursday 18th August on PhotoPeach

Sequencing events in the day on PhotoPeach

"Rappin' it up!" in Kindy

Kindergarten have been learning about -teen numbers this term. We found a great song on YouTube and we love to rap along with it!

Some of our rapping superstars!

Term 3 Week 5

Phonics

This week we are learning QU

Literacy

KC and KP are reading an Aboriginal story "How the Kangaroos got their tails"

KP are reading "Possum Magic"

KW are reading "McBungle Downunder"

Gross Motor on PhotoPeach

Our Writing - Tuesday 9th August

Our Writing on PhotoPeach

Term 3 Week 4

Phonics

This week we are learning about:

     th (loud)      &      th(soft)
      mother                thick        
      then                    thin
      this                     moth
      they                    teeth
      the                     thumb

Literacy

Each class are studying the same books as last week.

Sight Words

If there is one thing you can do to improve your child's reading - it is learning sight words. Please continue to practise those sight words over and over again. I have been checking each child's reading lately and cannot believe that some children have forgotten words they knew last term!!!! We will be having an extra huge focus on sight words at school for the rest of term.

Oakvale Zoo Excursion

Notes have been sent home about our upcoming excursion to Oakvale Farm and Fauna World. The cost is $38 per child, and this covers bus travel and entry to the zoo. If you did not receive the permission note please contact the office or your child's teacher. The excursion is planned for Friday 9th September. There is space on the permission note to let the teachers know if you are interested in coming along to help out. Once we know how many students are attending we can let you know how many "extra" seats we have available. It is a long, but enjoyable day and I hope we will have lots of extra hands to help us out on the day.

Birthdays

3D Shape Hunt on PhotoPeach



We have been learning about 3D shapes this week. So today we decided to go on an adventure around the school...looking for 3D shapes. We took our cameras with us to get some great photos. We found cylinders, cubes and spheres......but we couldn't find any cones or pyramids.

We sang a song to help us remember the names. Here it is:

Sphere, sphere, what's your clue? - I look like a ball you kick with your shoe.

Cube, cube, what's your clue? - I look like the ice you drop in your mountain dew.

Cylinder, cylinder, what's your clue? - I look like a can of chicken noodle soup.

Cone, cone, what's your clue? - Don't let the ice-cream drip on you!

Pyramid, pyramid, what's your clue? - I look like the house the Egyptians walked through.

Reading To Learn - "Possum Magic"

We found places on the map of Australia that Grandma Poss and Hush visited. We even matched up the food that they ate while they were there! Minties in Melbourne, pavola in Perth........



We deconstructed one of the sentences from the story! We are very clever and even know about doing words!