Term 1 Week 9 - Happy Easter!

KAYA parents,


We cannot believe that we are in our final week of Term One! This term has whizzed by, and we have had a truly wonderful time getting to know each other in our Year 3 family!

Key Learning in 3R
MATHS
The last few weeks we have been exploring addition and measurement. We have investigated a range of mental and written strategies to add to our toolbox to help us solve a range of simple addition problems. We have also had a blast exploring length, mass, capacity and area in an interactive way. The students have loved these sessions!

Look out! This week our final Seesaw post, for the term, will be added to our Seesaw portfolio. This assessment will focus on displaying our knowledge of addition strategies. There will also be a section where we explain to you what we did to solve a vertical addition problem with regrouping! Look for those audios in the task.

HASS
This week we are working on completing our final project in our HASS investigation. We have been exploring a neighbouring country to Australia. We have used task cards and the internet to search and identify relevant facts about our chosen country. This week we will be turning our research into an informative poster using our iPads. We look forward to sharing it with you.

RELIGION
Last Sunday marked the beginning of Holy Week as we celebrated Palm Sunday. Each day this week we have been and will continue to explore and discover four main events that happen during Holy Week in the lead up to Easter Sunday. So far we've looked at Palm Sunday and the Last Supper. Ask us what happened during these special events tonight and we can explain the main details.


Important Info
Holy Week:
This is the most important week in the Catholic calendar. We will celebrate the 'Stations of the Cross' on Thursday after recess at 11am in the school hall,  if you would like to attend.

VIA Character Strength for the blog: Honesty

 

St Gertrude the Great is known as a powerful champion of truth and justice. She was a Benedictine Nun who dedicated her work to theology, learning and writing.  

Do you like to know the truth? 
Do you like people to be truthful to you? 


Did You Know?

• This afternoon, after lunch we will be meeting with our Year 1N buddies to make a basket for a little Easter Egg Hunt.
• Mrs Hayward is currently in London with her family. She will be back in week 2 of term 2 to share all her awesome travel stories to Paris and husband's homeland, Scotland. 
• In Germany, it is illegal to dance on Good Friday.
• To my husband's greatest delight, Harrison (my middle child) has decided to follow the Dockers again after jumping on the Collingwood ban wagon last season. 
• 
  Easter is always celebrated on the Sunday after the full moon following March 21st each year.
• Kelley is off to America for a holiday with his mum... how special💜
• 3R are so close to receiving their 2nd whole class reward - we currently have the letters 'POPCORN TREA...' revealed. One letter to go...hopefully we get to turn it before the end of the week to have our special prize.
  
• A staggering 180 million eggs are purchased for Easter every year.
• Harriet was the runner up champion for her age group in Little Nippers on the weekend.
• Mrs Sorgiovanni loves teaching Art and she is a guru. You must come in and check out the two pieces the student's have created so far.
• 3R were incredible during NAPLAN, the student's maturity and calm approach to the whole concept was so pleasing.
• Brysen is off to Queensland to cheering on his older brother who is completing in a surf comp...I did hear he is going to buy his mum an extra special gift because they are away for her birthday 😉
• Term 1 Literacy and Numeracy work packs will be sent home today to show off the hard work completed this term in class. It is yours to keep at home.
• Taylah received the MVP award for her Basketball team on Sunday. Congrats to all the kids who received their medals on Sunday for bball.

Upcoming Events

1. Thursday March 28th - Stations of the Cross 11-11.30 am in the Hall
2. Thursday March 28th - Assembly at 2:15 (Star Citizen being handed out for our school value of Appreciation) 
3. Thursday March 28th - Last Day of Term One! Let the holidays begin!
4. Friday March 29th - Good Friday and the First Day of School Holidays
5. Sunday March 31st - Easter Sunday
6. Monday April 15th - Term Two Commences

Homework
As this week comes to an end, we are looking forward to the holidays commencing. Can you please ensure all students bring their homework folders to school on Thursday morning. 

There will be no homework set by teachers during the school holidays. It is important that your child has a well earnt break from the busyness of this term. If you are looking for them to continue some homework for routine, I would suggest a small amount of reading and continuing practicing their 2, 3, 4, 5 & 10 timetables.


Thank You
Thank you to all the parents that met with us at the Parent Teacher Interviews last Friday. It was wonderful to sit down with all of you and talk about your amazing children. Whilst it was a long day, we were so grateful to be able to share as much 

We also wanted to say a big thank you to you all for being so supportive and positive this term. We have loved getting to know you and your children and feel very lucky to have such a wonderful class. What a dream start to the year we have had!


Happy Easter to you all, have safe and restful school holidays! We look forward to seeing you all again in Term Two.


            

                    Kind regards,

Mrs Ricciardone & Mrs Sorgiovanni

Week 6 & 7 Term 1 2024

KAYA parents,

That long weekend couldn't have come at a more perfect time! We hope you enjoyed the break and had a chance to rest and recoup, as well as have a bit of fun.

Whilst I didn't make it to Pink, I did get to frolic like a tourist down here in our special town. From wandering through the sculptures by the bay, losing horrifically to my family at Par 3 and seeing the wonderful fireworks down at the foreshore...I can confirm I'm pretty chuffed with this place we call home💜

Key Learning in 3R
MATHS

The students have been focusing on the properties of Odd and Even numbers before being interrupted by assessments, but we will resume with revising our mental addition and subtraction strategies before we lead into the written addition and subtraction processes.

ENGLISH

The children have been working hard to achieve their best throughout their reading rotations. The students are adapting well to our new routines and showing a liking to the 'Listen and Draw' pair activity. 

In Writing, we have been learning about the structural elements of a persuasive text in preparation for NAPLAN. They have begun writing a solid piece trying to convince us teachers to have a class pet. This week we will continue to develop these texts by forming strong conclusions and exploring how persuasive language devices can create even stringer arguments.

ART

There are some stunning pieces of art hanging in our classroom at the moment, please come in and see our interpretation of the Andres Valencia Inspired Portraits. Please come in and see these.

                   

Next task is creating some patterned fish. There are many processes involved in this piece to get the final product. What great opportunities Mrs Sorgiovanni is providing!

Important Information
NAPLAN 2024
NAPLAN starts next week (Week 7) and will run over 2 weeks. It is particularly important that all students are familiar with the variety of question types used in NAPLAN. Therefore we will be completing practice tests for the three online assessments: Spelling, Mathematics and Reading Conventions.  

Tuesday 5th March - Mathematics Practice Test

Wednesday 6th March - Spelling Practice Test

Friday 8th March - Reading Conventions Practice Test

Please note that these practice sessions are not formal, we are carrying them out to test the school technical capabilities as well as exposing the students to a range of types of questions. 

ACARA NAPLAN Online public demonstration site (www.nap.edu.au/online-assessment/public-demonstration-site) is available for additional exposure  and allows staff, students and parents to view, and interact with, example test questions. If you have any questions or concerns regarding your child and NAPLAN, please see us classroom teachers to discuss options. 

Whole School Mass & Leadership Badges Presentation 

All families are warmly invited to attend our mass on Wednesday 6th March at 11am in the hall. This is a chance for us to be together in prayer and the Year 6 leadership badges will be blessed and then presented to the students.

Project Compassion Colouring Competition 

The Spirit Spies will be promoting an Easter colouring in competition to raise money for Project Compassion. Students will be asked to pay $1 to participate in the competition and winners will be announced at our Holy Thursday gathering.

Pupil Free Day 

A reminder that Friday 22nd March will be our day for parent meetings. Information will be shared in the coming weeks about how to book in for these online.

These meetings will be in 15 minute time slots and will give you an overview on how your child is progressing at this point in time in Literacy (Reading, Spelling & Writing) and Numeracy (Number strand) and discuss any concerns from a teacher or parent point of view.

It has already been quite an interrupted start to the year and with many events now out of the way, we can settle more deeply into our teaching and learning program to gather information and date about your child's progress. If you have any pressing concerns, please do not hesitate to get in touch to discuss them...if your query is more general in nature, we look forward to meeting with you on the Friday to discuss them.

Mrs Ricciardone - PM and IPI Reading Tests 

Mrs Ricciardone will be carrying out Reading tests on the students all day Wednesday, which will be reported back to you at the Parent Teacher interviews. Mrs Sorgiovanni will be coming in to teach in the class. Thank you Mrs Sorgiovanni, for keeping things as consistent as possible💖

Character Strength of the Week...Fairness...

  

St John Baptist De La Salle was known for his contributions to education reform and to equality in education for all in France. He strongly advocated for the “the last, the least and the lost”. Do you treat everybody the same? Do you not let your feelings bias your decisions?  

Fairness is treating people justly, not letting your personal feelings bias your decisions about others. You want to give everyone a fair chance, and believe there should be equal opportunity for all, though you also realise that what is fair for one person might not be fair for another.

A really tough one to tap into at times, especially during sports or games.

Did You Know?

• Geographe won the Yr4-6 Swimming carnival on Friday by only 6 points 🏊
• 
  Mrs Sorgiovanni had her big boy, Lucas home for the long weekend to spoil before he went back to school in Perth.
• We are so thankful to Jamie Riley who put her hand up to be our class rep for this year...not sure if anyone else has put their hand up to help but I am sure she would be very appreciative. I promise we won't make life too hard for you.
  
• Our beautiful 3R classroom is being used in the filming of the new school film tomorrow. A special thanks to the hard work the students have put in, to create such a special space. Unfortunately we won't be in the class at the time.
• That NAPLAN begins next week!!
• Mrs Ricciardone is super sad to not be in the classroom on Wednesday...however she is excited to work one on one with the students to see if any of the students have already made growth in their reading since last year.
• The students are busily focusing on their next genre and trying to convince Mrs Sorgiovanni and I to get a class pet! Some very convincing arguments are being made!
• Mrs Hayward's husband is Mrs Ricciardone's new best friend because he makes chocolate!

Upcoming Events

1. Thursday 21st March - Harmony Day
2. Friday 22nd March - National Ride to School Day
3. Friday 22nd March - Student Free Day - Parent Teacher Meetings
4. Sunday 24th March - Palm Sunday
5. Thursday 28th March - Last Day of Term 1
6. Friday 29th March - Good Friday
7. Sunday 31st March - Easter Sunday

Homework 

Week 6&7 Homework:

1. Reading - 20 minutes each night (your child will bring home a designated reader - please complete and sign the reading log each night)

2. Mental Math's activity sheet - addition and subtraction with 1-digit numbers

3. Mixed 2, 5, 10x Times tables - practice by saying them aloud and writing them down

Have a wonderful week everyone...can't wait to see all the kiddos soon!

Sandy & Gemma