Book Week Dress Up

Room 24 have finally chosen their book for book week : How the birds got their colours.  This is a Dreamtime story.  Students can dress in bright colours and perhaps have streamers, or something else, as wings.  Seven students are going to be the crows and will be dressed all in black.  I will purchase some colourful party hats to use as beaks and we will make some black ones.

NAPLAN Results

NAPLAN results went home with students today in their homework folders or in a plastic sleeve, along with an explanation pamphlet.

School Photos Tomorrow

Tomorrow is School Photo Day!!

Please come in CLEAN, FULL UNIFORM, and beautifully groomed! :)

Please remember to bring in the photo order/payment envelopes.

Be ready for your MOVIE STAR CLOSE UPS!!

Writing Feature: The Planet Glop by Logan

The planet Glop was a big bit of splodge!  There was one person living there.  His name was Glot.  he was a very nice guy but he was very noisy!!  He sang and danced all the time so Glot had no one to sing and dance with.  The week after an astronaut came.  Glot said hi.  he said he wanted to be the dirst ones to Glop!!  Why?  But I live here, I was born here.  So do you want to dance now and sing?  they said no!!  Little Glot started crying.  Glot ran away.  While he was running he said you're mean.  The men said who cares.  Little Glot came back.  Glot said get off my planet!!  But they have destroyed everything!!  They were gone.  They put a flag there but Glot snapped it!!  So another person came.  His name was Plot.  He liked to sing and dance so Plot and Glot were best friends for ever.  
They cleaned up all of the mess.

Writing Feature: Life on Unocoina by Dakota

One cold day a man was one a mission to go to a new planet that a scientist discovered only two days ago.  The planet was called Unocoina.

The scientist wanted the man to go to Unocoina.  No one had ever been on the planet so they don't know if it's safe or not.  The man got in his spaceship and took off.  Unocoina was along way away from all the other planets.

The man landed on Unocoina.  It looked like a desert but it had all types of different coloured sand.  The water was fresh but it was rainbow!  He saw a shiny rainbow city.  It was gigantic.  The astronaut walked in as soon as the man walked in he got a code on his wrist that can open doors.

When it was night the sky turned green.  The mann rally wanted to go back home. When he went to sleep in the morning he was in his house on the sofa watching TV.  He was so happy.

2017 Planning - are you leaving?

Dear Families

 In order for me to be able to plan effectively for 2017 I need your help. 

It is crucial that I know which children will be at the school in 2017 so I can make suitable staffing arrangements and know whether we will require any more transportable classrooms.

If you know that you will not be at Aubin Grove in 2017 please reply to this email AND let your child’s teacher know. The earliest you are able to provide me with this information, the sooner I can make important decisions about the above.

Please note that this request does not apply to students who will be attending the new school in Wandi in 2017.

Thank you very much for your cooperation.

Kind regards

Frank

Perth Excursion

Our excursion into Perth on Thursday was a great day out.  Thank you to Mrs Chapple for coming as our parent helper.  More photos to follow once I sort through them all.

Faction Carnival

Racing Reds

Blazing Blues

Glorious Golds

 Great Greens

(minus two who were late)

The Carnival was a very busy and very successful day.  Well done to Blue who won!!  Followed by Gold, Green then Red.

Presentations

Year 3 Runner Up Champion Boy

Well done Thomas! 

Faction Carnival Tomorrow

In all the post excursion excitement I forgot to remind students that it is Faction Carnival tomorrow!!
1. Be here by 8.30am as we will be leaving the class at 8.35am to got to the basketball courts ready for the march down to the oval.  Anyone arriving late must make sure they see me before heading to their faction or they will be marked absent.
2. Wear faction shirt, hat and sunscreen.  Bring your jumper as it will be colder tomorrow and we will be on the oval ALL day.
3. Bring your water bottle!

400m Race, Jumps and Throws

Room 24 was well represented in the 400m races this morning.  We had 3 girls and 3 boys.  Room 24 took out the second, third and forth places in both races!!  Congratulations!!  We also had some great competitors in the jumps and throws.

Honey, I Love You

Playing Honey, I Love You.  Some students are much better at keeping a straight face than others.  Of course some are more theatrical than others too...

It's Easy Being Green Art Exhibition

Yesterday evening I attended the It's Easy Being Green Art Exhibition at Atwell College.  There were some amazing art works on display.  Well done to Mrs Tanner and the other Art Teachers for such creative ideas.

The Aubin Grove Year 3 display

Other Aubin Grove Year Group Displays

Library Days

Due to last weeks stormy weather, we were unable to go to our Library session.  We will not be going to Library today either as we will be watching the 400m races on the oval.  Therefore I have managed to find a spare spot to squeeze into on Friday, immediately after lunch.  Please ensure you bring your Library bags on Friday.

Faction Carnival arrangements if postponed due to poor weather

1:1 Macbook Program

Last week a note was sent home about the 1:1 Macbook Program for next year's Year 4s.  Some of the current Year 6 students will be looking to sell their Macbooks later in the year.  If you are interested in picking up a secondhand computer keep an eye on the Aubin Grove website as this is where they will be advertised.  Below is some more information about this program and an invitation to a Parent Information Evening.

Faction Carnival

The Faction Carnival is on this Friday!!

Event times and Room 24 students participating in them are list below: (times as a rough guide)

200m Race

9.10am: Olive, Poppy Asha

9.13am: Thomas, Tom, Noah

75m Race

9.40am: Olive, Poppy, Asha

9.42am: Molly

9.46am: Dakota, Amelia

9.48am: Emma-Lee, Celina

9.50am: Taylor

9.52am: Caitlin

9.54am: Katelyn

9.56am: Thomas, John, Tom, Noah

9.58am: Logan, Andres

10.06am: William

10.08am: Shevin

10.10am: Jamie, Owen

10.12am: Fletcher

10.30am: Star Relay, Stump Relay, Flag Relay: all students

Leaderball

12.30pm: Olive, Asha, Molly, Poppy, Dakota, Amelia, Celina, Emma-Lee

12.35pm: John, Thomas, Logan, Fletcher, William, Noah

Multiball

1.15pm: Caitlin, Dakota, Amelia, Katelyn, Taylor

1.20pm: Shevin, Tom, Andres Jamie

Pole

2.00pm: Olive, Asha, Molly, Poppy

2.04pm: John, Thomas, Logan, Tom, Andres, Noah

2.45pm: Presentations

Perth Excursion - Thursday

Our excursion is quickly approaching.  Here are some important notes:

1. Don't be late!  We will be on the bus straight away so please make sure you are here before the first bell.

2. Full uniform must be worn.  Make sure you have a jumper as we will be outdoors all day and it may get cold.  If it looks like rain, bring a raincoat.  Bring hat, sunscreen and water bottle.  Ensure name is on EVERYTHING1

3.  Please provide recess and lunch in two separate bags labelled with child's name and 'recess' or 'lunch'.  NO CONTAINERS.

Carnival Lunch and Photo Notes

On Friday two important notes went home.  

The first was for the Hot Dog lunch order on Faction Carnival day - this Friday.  If your child wants to order these need to be in with payment this Wednesday.

The second note was for School Photos.  Please do not send these in until photo day.  Room 24's scheduled day is 31 August.

Aboriginal Incursion

Gail Barrow, a Noongar elder, came to give us a talk about how the Noongar people cared for the land, plants and animals and what Perth was like before settlers came.

Fraction Work

Merit Certificate for Jamie

Congratulations to Jamie who received a Merit Certificate at the last assembly

Jumps and Throws Faction Timetable

Next week is a BIG one for Year 3!!  We have our Jumps and Throws Carnival on Wednesday, 24 August.  The following day is our excursion into Perth, then Friday is the Faction Carnival!

Not all students are competing in the Jumps and Throws.  Below is a timetable of when Room 24 students will be competing in their events.

8.50am Girls 400 metres
Olive
Poppy
Asha

8.55am Boys 400 metres
Thomas
Tom
Noah

9.40am Girls Long Jump
Poppy
Asha

9.40am Boys Long Jump
Noah

10.20am Girls Javelin
Emma-Lee
Amelia
Poppy

10.20am Boys Javelin
Thomas
John

1.55pm Girls Baseball Throw
Celina
Asha

1.55pm Boys Baseball Throw
Thomas
Noah

Excursion Reminder

Hi Parent
Just a quick reminder that our Year 3 excursion is next week.  If you have not returned the permission slip and payment please do so as soon as possible.

Also, I have asked students to bring in a baby photo for Morning Circle.  Only a few came in today so we will be doing it tomorrow.  Hopefully a few more will come in then.

Regards
Julia

Writing Feature: Talking Disaster by Katelyn

"Good morning," I heard someone say.  It was like a lowish pitched voice.  I had never heard.  "I'm hungry," it said.  "Maybe peanut butter or Cheezels."  The voice sounded louder and louder until I saw my dog. "I'm hungryyyyyy!" she shouted.


"Aaahhhhhh!" I screamed as I ran into the kitchen.  I grabbed a whole container of peanut butter."  "You can talk?" I asked.  "Can you stop talking?"

"Yes," she said quietly.  "A person put a curse on me."
"Just you?" I asked.
"No, every animal in Australia," she said, "We've got to go to the zoo."
"How do you brake the curse?"
"Give every animal peanut butter," she said.
"Peanut butter?"
"Yep," she said.
"Let's go to buy peanut butter," I said.

When we got ot the shops there were no peanut butter containers.
"This is a problem," I said.
I saw a nice lady called Trish.
"Hello.  What do you want?"
"Peanut butter," I said, "Do you have it?"

How we do our Writing sessions

In Room 24 we have our writing sessions on Thursday mornings.  After I introduce the genre of writing, we do a Round Robin (Kagan Strategy).  The students have a small whiteboard in each group.  They have to write down all the criteria they can think of for that genre.  For example, if we are writing a narrative, some of the criteria are that it needs an orientation, complication, resolution, onomatopoeia, characters, setting, WOW words etc.  These are then written on the large whiteboard and students copy them into their books.  

Then I give students a writing stimulus.  The one above was about waking up and finding that your pet can talk.  Our focus for this piece was using speech marks and we discussed how and when to use these.  We also discussed this topic and brainstormed some ideas to write about.  Then students have about 30 minutes to write their story.  While writing, I play Mozart music - this is supposed to stimulate their brains and keep them focused during writing.  

When the writing session is over student then have some time to edit their work.  This week I introduced a writing goal sheet for students to check off where they think they are.  After writing this week, we discussed the music and talked about how people used to dance to this.  Students were eager to learn this sort of dancing so with the help of Youtube we tried some Regency dancing.  It was a lot of fun and they enjoyed having a go!

Writing Feature: The Scientist by Olive

Once there was a successful scientist named Mia.  She worked in an underground lab by herself.  Mia’s lab was white and blue.  It probably was the most outstanding lab you have ever seen!

One day Mia was making a tablet to help people who are sick.  The next day she finished the tablet but when her test subject ate the tablet, he was rushed to hospital because his belly was on fire.

Then Mia realised she added the wrong thing to the tablet!  The ingredient was lemon not flammable lemon!  So then the next day the tablets were all finished and her test subject did not have to go to hospital.

When she sold the tablets, Mia had lots of money to help sick kids.  So Mia gave all that money to doctors and nurses.  The kids were happy.

Writing Feature: The Scientist by Shevin

There was a scientist that was a meany and he would make bad potions and give the people a scary life time.  One day the bad scientist gave a bad potion to the King because he was sick.  Then he went up to the King and said “Here is your medicine.”

The King drank it.  Then he was not breathing so the King died.  Then the bell rang because the King was dead and the soldiers were running to see who killed the King.  But then five soldiers all died because of the bad scientist. There was only two more knights and ten soldiers and then they all died.  But there was a good scientist and they battled and the bad scientist lost and the good ones lived happily ever after.