Recycling Room Donations

A group of teachers, the environments committee, is responsible for implementing the consistent use of spaces across the schools. One of our initiatives has been to set up a Recycling Room. This is where we store reusable items that the children use in their neighbourhoods in art and craft activities. We encourage our community to add to our collection by bringing in clean, unbranded items they think we can use. Examples include bread clips, wrapping paper, ribbon and plain cardboard boxes. These may include beautiful perfume boxes and interesting shaped boxes. We are also looking for industrial offcuts from manufacturing processes which are non toxic. If you are unsure whether something is suitable or not, please send me an e-mail (a photo attached would be great). Please leave all suitable items at the office for collection.

Thanks,
Shana Upiter
upiter.shana.s@edumail.vic.gov.au

Our Game Explanations

Book Club Advice

Our book club members have some advice for their peers on what books you MUST read!

Useful websites

 There are some links at the bottom of this blog that you can use to visit some useful internet resources. These are among them...

Library of Virtual Manipulatives – place value

Mathletics (use the password and username in the back of the reader’s notebook)

You Tube – great for viewing animations, anything of interest really

ABC reading eggs

ACMI – Australian Centre of the Moving Image (some short films to watch for kids)

Some useful iPad apps to use at home:

ShowMe or Explain Everything

This has been shown to the year 1s at school and allows them to write stories/ explain anything using drawing tools, photos and audio recording.

ABC Tracer –

For practicing handwriting

ABC Phonics

Helps handwriting and spelling

Scribble Press

For creating storybooks

FlipBook

To animate drawings!

Stop Motion / Lego movie / Imotion

The students have been using this at school and have made animations using Lego, clay, drawings and other toys.

Place Value MAB –

For identifying numbers and using place value

Hundreds Board

Useful to look at numbers from 0 to 100 and counting

Hangman

For spelling and letter recognition

Freebooks-

Some reading apps

Toy Story Read along – and other childrens books in the app store

Aurasma

Can mix animations and real life

Google Earth

A map/globe of the world!!

Boomerang made by Eva

 

 This very delicately decorated boomerang was made Eva. It was made with July McKinty who came to visit us from the Melbourne Museum and share with a group what games indigenous people played in history. The students got to make their own actual working toys and share them with the rest of the neighbourhood.

Happenings in week 4 and 5 Term 2!

Indigenous Games Incursion

Wooranna Park Excursion

Redmond Park Incursion