Week 4 Term 3 - Hello from Paige and Sophie!

Kaya,

Hello, it's a pleasure that you are reading this. This blog is brought to you by Paige, Sophie and Madi. They are super proud of their efforts, as I am! 

Over to you girls...

It has been busy this week with Confirmation reflections, making natural tie dye bags, experimenting with probability and the interschool cross country carnival...plus much more.

👏🎤OLC Has Got Talent💃🏃
We want to congratulate our Interschool Cross Country representatives for Year 6 who made us very proud, many placing in the top 10 overall.

👏Kirra, Rose, Sophie, Nina, Holly G, Myla👏👏Zayne, Mahley, Cooper, Cam, Flynn, Noah👏

🧁AUGUST BIRTHDAYS 🧁

IMOGEN KING – 21st of August

TARA TUTT – 28th of August

⭐⭐Merit Award⭐⭐

Well done to Imogen and Madi for receiving our 6R Merit Awards for week 3.  They are both incredible assets to our class and school, who never provide nothing but their very best. Well done girls, keep up the hard work for the rest of the year. 

Joke Time – Where do sheep go on Their Vacation???

🤣(The BAAA-HAMAS)🤣

WEEK 3 LEARNING SNAPSHOT

Writing

In writing, we started the week by doing a reflection dove on Confirmation, we had to answer a few questions and then do a good copy on the doves. These can be found on the wet area doors and windows for you to have look at.

Later in the week we started looking at what it means to persuade someone and some of the techniques used to do this. From here we will start our persuasive writing unit.


Digital Technologies

In Digi Tech we are making a tie dye bag out of plants and natural fauna that we find on the ground around the oval and the school. We collected and used all sorts of different plants, leaves and bark and we have to wait 4 weeks (1 month) for the fauna to soak in and create different colours on the hessian bag.

Music
This week in Music we are learning all the chords and strings on the guitar and how to play a variety of different songs. This is a beautiful picture designed by the great Sophie Summers and her amazing photographer Paige Maslin.

Science
In Science we are learning about Biological Sciences. We have to choose different biomes to research about on an online app called wow science biomes. One of the Most popular biome chosen is the tropical rainforest with the Gorillas. Where do Gorillas go to work out? The Jungle Gym’🤣😂




Art
In Art we have been asked to design a front cover for a card that Mr Lee would like to use officially as the school's thank you card. He will choose he best one to represent the school and it will be printed out and used in and outside of the school. Here is one of our designs for submission...

Maths

In Math's this week we started our new topic of Probability and Chance. We started by looking at predicting the outcome of the game rock, paper, scissors and then the probability of winning when playing 10 rounds. 

We also have been learning about the Olympics and we had to choose a country and learn different things about them. Everyone had to choose a country and then pick that card and write down all the information about that country.

WEEK 3 IMPORTANT INFORMATION

OLC Feast Day Mass & Mission Markets 

On Friday 13th August, we will celebrate our 25th Anniversary and the feast of the Assumption of Mary. Following this will be our Mission Day Market Stalls. Our markets are about raising money for Catholic Mission Australia. It is vital that all students understand that our market day is really about helping others. Students need to bring their pocket money for the market stalls on Friday. You have also received a text message requesting donations of coloured hair spray and nail polish for the Year 6 stall. Please send these into school with your child before Thursday. Thank you for your support. 

Student Uniform 

Dear Parents, the staff and admin will be paying particular attention to the students uniform and standard of dress from now on. This includes your child wearing the correct uniform on the correct day, i.e. only wearing sport uniform on sport days. This also includes wearing the correct socks and neat and tidy hairstyles. Please ensure you check your child before they attend school. 

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 Hope. Can you encourage your child to reflect on the following?

Upcoming Events

1. Feast Day Mass, Mission Markets, Rotations - Friday 13th August 2021

Seesaw App - Please note there are some families that have still not connected to their child's Seesaw app, can you please use the QR code sent home with your child to login and access your child's portfolio of work. Please let me know if you have any issues or questions. 

Homework - (Due Thursday 12th of August) 

Please ensure all students are completing their homework and getting you to check it with a signature nightly and then signing the learning grid and homework diary on a Wednesday afternoon before it is returned. 

Home Learning Grid includes:
1. Reading x 20 minutes every night - students to write up the pages that they read that night and the parent to sign every night. 

2. Spelling Activities - spelling grid to be completed in homework book. 
3. Mathematics - Two Mathletics tasks to be completed as well as a worksheet that will revise a topic from the previous term. 
4. Three well-being tasks from learning grid.

5. Any unfinished class tasks. 

Thank you for reading our blog. 😎😎😎

Bloggers - Paigey Mazz, Soph & Madog