Wendy’s Class Week 8 Term 3
What a fun week it has been!
On Monday, we watched a film made by a very talented and committed young Sydney man, Kal Glanznig, about efforts being made to clean up the oceans, reduce plastic use and recycle more. The film is called “Rising Up” and we hope to organise a whole school showing of the film soon. Children made notes while they watched and it’s very impressive to see their skills at this increase so steadily. Meg has been doing some work with them on note taking over the past few weeks and it really shows!
On Tuesday, we went bush walking down to Tambourine Bay for PE. It was a lovely afternoon and we had a little time to play before we set off back to school. It was fun to listen to everyone chatting as they walked and enjoying being out in the fresh air. I’m hoping we might manage a few more bush walks before the weather gets too hot. Please make sure all the children have wide brimmed hats at school every day so that we can go out spontaneously if we decide to and all be sun safe now that the UV level is over 5 most days.
On Thursday we had another event, this time organised for us by Lane Cove Council! It was held at Synergy, and was a Intergenerational Yarning and Weaving event. We learnt from an Indigenous artist, Virginia, from Brewarrina how to weave raffia around a circle at the same time, chatting with some older members of the Lane Cove community. We had some morning tea and did some drawings… and the children’s work will be incorporated into a major project that Virginia is working on. Again, it was a very lovely morning. We were all asked to give one word to describe how the morning felt for us and many of the children said things like peaceful, interesting, calming, therapeutic. It was the first event of this kind hosted by Council and was certainly a success and I felt very proud when the organisers commented on how lovely the kids were, so engaged in the activities and also so polite.
Back at school in our academic work this week, we have been working on measuring area, finding and creating axes of symmetry and exploring rotational symmetry. In English, we are analysing sentences for grammatical concepts, practising punctuation and using connectives to make short sentences more interesting. We created mini PIPs on important historical people this week, too, and some of these have already been presented. Our Term 3 PIPs are almost all complete now, proof reading done and palm cards being made. Presentations will start in the coming week.
I hope to be able to confirm the Booderee camp dates by the end of this week. There are a few things to check for this, sorry. Many thanks to those who have expressed interest in coming with us.
In the next two weeks, we also need help with the Museum excursion on Thursday 19th, this week. We have buses booked and it would be great to have a few parent helpers so our class can go around in small groups and follow their own interests. Please let me know if you’re available that day. Buses leave school at 9:30 so everyone needs to be at school on time at 9am.
The group would also like to go trampolining for our last PE session on Tuesday 24th. This will need drivers and helpers to stay with us for a two hour session, exact timing to be decided. Please let me know asap if you might be able to help with this.
If you haven’t already had your parent interview, please email me so we can find a suitable day and time. I would really like to complete all interviews before the holidays.
And lastly, congratulations to Olivia, Mikee and the team who created such a fabulous 55th birthday celebration for Currambena on Saturday! Brilliant work by all the helpers on the day, especially the setting up and packing up helpers, the bakers, the lemonade sellers, the band, my guitar group and everyone involved. It was great to see so many amazing people there, so many of them expressing such happiness in being there, sharing their memories and reconnecting with friends, exploring the space and celebrating the achievement of the school reaching this milestone! Congratulations Currambena!
Hope you all have a great week.
Love,
Wendy x