Hello from Jeremy & Jake - Week 3 learning Term 2

Kaya, 

Happy Mother's Day to all of you wonderful mothers out there. I hope were showered with love, breakfast in bed and gratitude all day long. I thank you for blessing me with your beautiful children; your strong values, incredible leadership and endless love and creating some pretty amazing human beings. Wishing a Happy Mother's Day to my Irish Mammy too! 💚


AS PROMISED I'M HANDING YOU NOW OVER TO THE STUDENTS... 

The rest of this blog has been created by Jeremy Collis and Jake Veitch and I am sure you will agree that they have done a wonderful job. 


Djeran- the month of cruising winds and flying ants, and already, another week has passed. We will be showing you a number of things that we have been challenged to and completed in class. The students have been working flat out hard in order to finish their work. Also, did you know that Georgia raised $553 for project compassion by selling candles. WOW! And, our year 6 performance assembly is NEXT WEEK!! Oh it’s giving me chills already. Sit back, relax, because ladies and gentlemen the blog is finally here!

⭐⭐Merit Award⭐⭐
Congratulations to Hudson Morris for winning our Merit Award at the end of week 3 for his development and use of  leadership skills when taking on new roles and responsibilities around the school. Hudson has been an integral part of 6H taking on the Ministry jobs around the school. He is continually demonstrating the skills to help him become a lifelong leader. Well done Hudson, keep up the hard work! 👏


May Birthdays: 
Sian Roberts - 3rd May
Myla Fursdon - 10th May
Ellie Crawford - 12th May
Cam Spencer - 27th May
Ari Wilson - 30th May
Happy Birthday to you all, we hope you have a wonderful May and a fantastic Birthday!

Learning from the last week of Term 2:

Maths:
This week in maths we are learning all about fractions. So far we have learnt how to add and subtract fractions, Shout out to Mr Sherbourne for doing a great job. At the start of the week the two amazing teachers decided to change how we learnt math so it would be more enjoyable then just plain old math. They have done this by making 4 groups from both classes with 6H students with 6R students. The way we now learn mathematics is, there are four rotations that include guided practice and independent practice. Guided practice is were we learn fractions with the teachers and independent practice is were we play a fraction board game made from the amazing year 6 teachers and we also play mathletics in independent practice.



Writing:
Like last term, we are continuing with our Adaptive Narnia Stories. Everyone has been working on their Story Roller-coasters. Story Roller-coasters are used to help plan a story. Everyone has used these coasters to write their 3 mini problems and climax through out their story. The students have been focused on their description of the build up to ‘reach the top of the abseiling tower’!(That was a camp reference…). 


Spelling:
Unit Thirteen is made for the Green!
Unit 13 is here and we have a truck load of words, corrections and the good old Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check! Again using the program of soundwaves to teach kids about the grapheme ‘ai’ as in snail, and using the set list words (chosen by the teachers) for our LSCWC and our spelling homework.

HASS - People with different Cultures:
In HASS, we have been learning about Aboriginal Peoples and their cultures. In todays blog we will learn about our classmates different cultures and traditions.

The first person on the list is fellow blog writer, Jake's background is from the Phillipines.

Jeremy: Do you have a set religion different to Australia?
Jake: No, I don’t follow the Phillipines religion, but I technecally don’t follow any religion.
Jeremy: Do you eat any traditional food?
Jake: Yes, I eat Adobo, a comination of meat and potato with some type of sauce. Its served with rice and optional spices. I also eat Saopao, a traditional dumpling with pork insides. Saopao is my favourite. I like Puto Cheese, a like of cake-thing, and it’s always good to eat some Hopya, but sadly, I don’t know the recipe.

Jasper is the second person on the list, Jasper's background is from Thailand. 

Jeremy and Jake: What traditional clothes do you wear/have?
Jasper: Thailand does have traditional clothes, and I wear them on traditional festival or dances. I can’t explain them, because there are lots of groups.
Jeremy and Jake: Do you celebrate any different festivals?
Jasper: We have a water festival. We splash water on each other with buckets and water pistols on the streets. We have a Dancing festival where we come out and dance on the streets.

Orlando is the third person on the list, Orlando's background is Italian. 

Jeremy and Jake: Do you celebrate different festivals from Italy?
Orlando: No, and I don’t know the different festivals.
Jeremy and Jake: What traditional food do you eat
Orlando: Chicken rossoto, Italian bread and we also eat bolongese.

Lara is the third person on the list, Lara's background is German. 

Jeremy: Do you have worn any tradition clothes?
Lara: Yes, its reals cold in German so they have traditional cloths to keep warm
Jeremy: What is your favourite German food?
Lara: Spätzle, it is made from water flour and eggs gravy and its good with duck.
Jeremy: Are any of your names German?
Lara: Yes, one of my names is German and it is Cielia.

☘ Boys - you forgot about Miss Hurst? ☘

Djeran Art:

Since it is the season of Djeran, from the Wadandi Six Seasons Calendar, the students have been assigned to make an art about Djeran. They had to pick between trees that flowered in Djeran, Australian Shelducks, native frogs and snails that you can see in this season.


Important Information:

Year 6 Assembly:
This Friday 14th May, we have our Performance assembly in the hall at 2.15. It is quite the mash up - it will show case some of the learning that has taken place around our reading groups, entwined with a bit of camp humour, not to mention throwing in a bit of a reality game show! We hope to see you there.

Book Fair Week 5
On Tuesday and Wednesday of Week 5, Mrs Kemp will be running a Book Fair again, selling books and posters to raise funds for the school's library resources. We hope you are able to support this fundraiser.

Community Support:
Dear OLC Community,
As you know one of our family's recently suffered the unexpected loss of their husband and father in February this year. Dave Clift was husband to Annmarie and dad to Violet in Year 5H, and to former OLC students Damon (17), and Sunny (15). Annmarie has been overwhelmed by the love and support she has already received in terms of willing listeners, shoulders to cry on and lovingly prepared meals. Many people have continued to ask how they might best help the family as they move forward. Here is a way. Without Dave and an income, Annmarie could really use some financial support. If you are able, even if in a small way to contribute to this Go Fund Me Campaign, she would be forever grateful. Thank you and may God Bless you.
Mrs. Amie Meyer
https://gofund.me/cffd29eb

Upcoming Events
1. Wheels After Meals - Tuesday 11th May 
2. Walkie Wheelie Waste Free Wednesday
3. Year 6 Performance Assembly 2.15pm Friday 14th May
3. Book Fair - Tuesday & Wednesday - Week 5
4. National Sorry Day - Wednesday 26th May
5. Winter Carnival - Yr's5&6 - Thursday 3rd June

Homework 
Due: Friday, 14th May
Our homework diaries having not arrived as yet. The students will continue using their homework books for now. Thank you to those parents that sign the students work, please ensure you do this especially on a Thursday night before they return to class on a Friday. At times, the students may take home other work that they have not completed in class to be returned completed by a set day and time. 
Home Learning Grid includes:
1. Assembly Role Practice - students are to practice their assembly role and speech each night of the week this week please in preparation for the assembly on Friday. 
2. Spelling Activities - spelling grid to be completed in homework book. 
3. Mathematics - Times Tables (x11 orally)
4. Three well-being tasks from learning grid.

Reminder - The wonderful memories and moments from the Year 6 Camp are available to be viewed on Teams on your child's computer. I have talked them through the steps in class so they should be able to do this at home. 📷📸

Now we move to the conclusion, we are sad to go, but I’m grateful that you stayed with us on our journey to year 6. Thanks to the parents, staff, and students and I think the blog is done for now! Thanks for reading ‘till the end, and Goodbye.

Offical signitures from Bloggers Jeremy and Jake.





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