Holiday Challenge

Switch on Your Learning During the Holiday Period

Keep your mind active and your creative juices flowing these holidays by participating in our Holiday challenge.

Literacy Challenge

  Next term we are studying poetry looking specifically at 'Waltzing Matilda'. It was written by Banjo Patterson, a famous Australian author and poet. Maybe you could find some examples of some of his works and add them to our comments section. When we come back to school bring the pieces with you!

Did you know a Haiku poem is a Japanese poem about nature. 

It is made up of three lines and is all about syllables.

For example:
Title: Fish
Line 1: Deep beneath the sea. (Five syllables and states where it is)
Line 2: Live some lively coloured fish (seven syllables and states 'what it is' or 'what it is doing')
Line 3: Swimming peacefully (five syllables states 'when or what is being felt' or 'what is happening)

Try to write your own Haiku about your adventures with nature. We would love to see some in our comment section.

Numeracy Challenge

Adding with Money
The next time you go shopping use your mental strategies to add up items in the shopping trolley. You will need to round first. Can you add dollars and cents. Use the docket to check your answer.

Multiplication facts
Write chants to help you recall the multiplication facts we have covered during the year. Challenge yourself with the 6,7,8,9 multiplication facts.

Number Hunt
Look at the number plates on the cars that go by can you find one that adds up to twenty.   

Community Walk
Have a walk around your local community. What do you see? Make a list or take some photos bring them along to share with the class next term.

Sock Puppet
Be creative and design and make your own sock puppet. We will be using them in class next term so please be creative and invent a puppet friend that will help your learning. We can't wait to see them next term.  

Sports In Schools

Keeping Active and Improving Our Skills

During Term Three all children from Kindy to Year Six participate in 'Sports in School' every Monday. During the lessons the children participate in fun filled activities where they can develop their skills but also learn how to work cooperatively with other people. At the end of each session the teachers reinforce positive living advice by highlighting important messages about being active, healthy eating and having a positive outlook to life.

Children's Blog

Sports in Schools are a group of teachers that go around to different schools during school weeks. Sports in Schools is not only fun but also helps our health. It also gives us the opportunity to participate in some good exercise. The company of 'Sports in Schools' in our school show us lots of fun, cool ways to enjoy doing sport. The after lesson activity talks  about safety and we also receive fun sheets with great activities that help us learn about safety issues.

At the end of each physical session the teachers hand out an activity sheet full of activities.

Target games help improve our throwing accuracy.

Working together as a team helps build communication skills.

Throwing and catching with grip balls is fun.

Resistance training is another challenging activity.

Challenge Activity:

Keep a healthy living diary. Record your physical activity for a week. Try to increase the amount of physical activity you participate in throughout the week. Share it with your class.