Hello from Lara and Dior - Week 8 learning Term 2

Kaya,

This blog has been expertly created by Lara Murray and Dior Blackburn, and I am sure you will agree that they have done a wonderful job. 

As you guys should know we are in the Wadandi season of Makuru. The season is represented by the colour dark blue and symbolises rain, storms, and cold weather. 💦💧☔⛆ 

Did you hear about Skyla’s accident that happened at Dior’s house whilst on a bike ride? Apparently, she flew over the handlebars and scraped her knee on the road. Luckily, there was a lovely man that helped her get up.

⭐⭐Merit Award⭐⭐

Well done to Myla Fursdon for receiving our 6H Merit Award for week 8.  Myla has been working very hard on smashing both personal and learning goals. Myla has been proactive with her learning and development in Year 6. She embodies the school values both inside and outside the classroom and we are very lucky to have her at OLC. Well done Myla, keep up the hard work. 

June Birthdays: 

Mrs Ricciardone - Monday 14th June (Happy Birthday to one of the best teachers) 💙💚💛💜

Georgia Breheny - 27th June
Jake Veitch - 28th June 2010

Happy Birthday to you all, we hope you have a wonderful June and a fantastic Birthday!

Learning from week 8 of Term 2:

Reading: 

In reading this week, we are continuing with our usual reading groups, which are: Guided Reading, Reading Comprehension, Readers Theatre and Creative Writing. We have completed a total of 50 books this term so far! Do not forget to read for 20 mins every night.  📚📙📘📗📕

Writing:

In writing this week, we have started to plan for our informative texts. We had to choose a South-West animal to write about, for example I chose to write about the White-Cheeked Honey-eater.
Example plan for my informative text down below:

My South-West animal is: White Cheeked Honeyeater

Diet:

· Mainly flowers

· Insects

· Nectar

· White cheeks

· Pollen

Habitat and lifestyle:

· Moist heathlands

· Wetlands, forests, woodlands

· Found in subtropical and temperate zones

Physical Appearance:

· Black and white

· Medium sized

· Eyes dark brown

· Long sturdy bill that curves downwards

· Large bright yellow tail and wing panels

Link to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Culture:

Aboriginal name is Bandin (ban-deen)

Opinions about my animal:

· They are very fascinating

· They are very cute

Spelling:

This week we are focusing on the ‘g, gg’ Grapheme. (As in girl or egg) We are lucky we do not have an overload of spelling this week due to the five-day weekend! Although, we still must do the dreadful sound waves sheet. 😎

Sport:

Cam, Rhavi and Jake ran a great sport lesson on Friday. We got to play chair dodge! The boys successfully divided the class, talked about the rules and umpired the game. Some umpires were more enthusiastic than others. 😀

Technologies:

We did it! We finally made out solar ovens! Thank you to all the parents for helping us gather all of our materials that we needed. Now to see if they actually work and if we can make some yummy s'mores! 

Important Information:

Character Strengths -

Dear Parents, currently at OLC we are focusing on modeling and observing different character strengths. The strengths that we will focus on are taken directly from the VIA Institute for Character. If you wanted to learn more about this please follow the link to the 24 character strengths: https://www.viacharacter.org/character-strengths 

This upcoming week we are looking for people who show Fairness. Can you encourage your child to reflect on the following?

Upcoming Events

1. Wheels After Meals - Tuesday

2. Walkie Wheelie Waste Free Wednesday

3. WA Day Public Holiday - Monday 7th June

4. Pupil Free Day - Tuesday 9th June

5. OLC Cross Country - Thursday 17th June

6. Whole School Mass - Friday 25th June

Homework - (Due Friday 18th June) 

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. Reading x 20 minutes every night. 

2. Spelling Activities - spelling grid to be completed in homework book. 
3. Mathematics - Times Tables work continued and two mathletics tasks to be completed. 
4. Three well-being tasks from learning grid.

5. Any unfinished class tasks. 

6. Start researching the weather patterns for the upcoming week, including cloud cover, sun exposure, best time of day to help decide what time and day to put our solar ovens outside to cook some yummy treats. 

Joke

Mum: what did you learn at school today

Dior: not enough I have to go back next week

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Thank you for reading our blog, we hope you have a beautiful week! 

Bloggers - Lara Murray and Dior Blackburn