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

Walk Safe to School Day

On Friday 24th of May is Walk Safely to School Day. We would encourage Year 5/6 students to walk part /or all of the way to school or to ride their bike to school on this day.

QUICK FACTS ABOUT NATIONAL WALK SAFELY TO SCHOOL DAY 

NATIONAL WALK SAFELY TO SCHOOL DAY:

• Is an annual event held in Primary Schools around Australia and is on Friday May 24th.
• Asks parents and carers to walk their primary school aged children all or part of the way to school. Those who can’t walk the whole way are asked to combine a walk with public transport or to park the car a good distance away from the school and walk the rest of the way.
• Encourages regular physical activity because active kids are healthy kids!
• Helps to reduce hazardous traffic congestion in and around schools, creating pedestrian-safe areas for children entering or leaving school.
• Is a way parents, teachers, carers and students can help ease global warming and climate change, as they reduce car-dependency.
• Teaches children healthy lifestyle habits from a young age as they learn that walking is the best form of exercise. It’s easy, free and almost anyone can do it at anytime. And these habits tend to last a lifetime.

Premier's Reading Challenge username and passwords

The Premier's Reading Challenge passwords and usernames will be given out tomorrow (Wednesday). These are to be kept at home for parents to log their child's reading progress online.

The following link will take you straight to the login page:

https://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/challenger/WebLogin.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fchallenger%2fDefault.aspx&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

School Bazaar!

To all school community,

Our Bazaar is an event in the schools calendar that the entire school community embraces and looks forward to. 

Our biggest fundraiser and community event it draws together our school community in a fun and rewarding way.

This year the opportunity exists for 2 people to step up/volunteer into the role of Bazaar Coordinator. 

Leading a well established, organised and proactive Bazaar committee you will help coordinate the running of our very successful Bazaar.

You will make lasting friendships, have lots of fun and see first hand the wonderful talents and skills of Princes Hill. 

Most of all you will help keep a tradition going that started nearly 100 years ago.

If you are interested in finding out more about the role please contact Michelle Board on 0404 865 320 or Keith McNeill at school.

Keith McNeill

Convenor, Community Relations Sub-committee

Our MSO Excursion Slideshow!