Year 3/4 – Room 17 Ms Gill & Mrs Wright 

Hi families

I hope everyone had an enjoyable and relaxing time over the two week break. Lots of bright faces this morning, new haircuts and smiles. A holiday was just what everyone needed after a long and busy term 1.

I will update you soon on our overview for this term but just to let you know we have jumped straight back into routine this week with Homework Bingo which student should have brought home tonight. We are  continuing Daily Dash this term and started that today and will also continue on with spelling this term. However we have not started spelling this week as I want to do some testing with the students, as well as start to look at some NAPLAN style spelling tasks.

Krista 😀

Here are are a couple of photos from our successful Enterprise day stall. I wish I took more. We made over 270 dollars so a fantastic effort by all. Thank you again for the donations, the help in making our sweets and of course the parents and students who bought some goodies on the day.

Krista 😀

 

Hi

This term we look forward to continuing our Team Work Tuesday Challenges.  To help with some of these we are after some donations. We are in need of plastic bottle tops, newspaper, and small boxes like toothpaste , muesli bar boxes etc. So send in your recycling 😀

Here are a couple of challenges from last term.

Newspaper Tower Challenge

This task was to work together to build the tallest freestanding tower that could support a tennis ball and stand upright long enough to be measured. They had only newspaper, a roll of masking tape and scissors. Students had 30 minutes.
Groups worked quickly to start building a sturdy base and discovered rolling up newspaper helped to make the strongest structure. In the end our two tallest towers that were able to support a tennis ball in the time given were
Well done everyone ☺

  

Paper Chair Challenge

The challenge this week was to use only 20 sheets of A4 paper and masking tape to create a chair that could support a stuffed toy- Happy ☺
Students worked extremely well in groups and were all successful in supporting ‘Happy’. They were even able to further test the strength of their paper chairs by seeing how many dictionaries they could support. 2 teams chairs successfully held the weight of all 16 dictionaries…… and Happy 😀.

This lead to a discussion about whether it is possible to make a chair out of paper and masking tape to support a person. Can it be done? When we build up our supply of newspaper we look forward to testing this.

           

The preparations are complete and we are all ready for Enterprise Day tomorrow.

Once again thank you for all the generous donations of ingredients and platters to use.

Today we were able to make all of our sweets and finish off our stress balls and bracelets. A huge thank you to Christine and Linda for your help today making sweets in our crazy classroom.

Hopefully every family has an Enterprise Day booklet, if not the photos below show all the information

We look forward to seeing some of you tomorrow. Our stall will be located between Langley Hall and the big shady tree. Come and visit and buy a sweet treat or a stress ball, they might come in handy for the upcoming school holidays lol  😉😂

Krista 😊

      

For the last day of school on Friday, we are going to have a board game afternoon just before lunch!

If the students could please bring in any board or card games they enjoy, to play with others in the class. I have a couple that I will bring in also.

*Please no electronic games*

Ms Gill mentioned this to the students today and I just thought I’d post on here in case the message isn’t passed on in the hustle and bustle of Enterprise Day.

Thanks, Meg

 

Thank you to the students who started off the week and did their animal presentations today. Sharks, frogs, horses, tigers, pandas oh my! :-). Mrs Wright and I  look forward to hearing more throughout the week. Due to presentations there is no other set Homework this week to allow students time to finish off and practice. Of course there are things they can do such as reading, practicing their spelling word s they will bring their fridge list home tomorrow. Apologies time got away from us today) or Studyladder.

Krista 🙂

Thank you very much to everyone who was able to make donations towards our sweet stall and stress balls. It is greatly appreciated.

I think we have enough now to make a good supply of products to sell. The only other thing that would come in handy now are some plastic trays/platters to put all our sweets on.

If you have any  platters that we could use please write your name on them and send them in tomorrow. I will ensure they are washed and returned back to you after Enterprise Day.

Thank you 🙂

Hello! I am the new teacher on Thursday’s and Friday’s in Room 17. I have enjoyed my first two days in the classroom, getting to know each of the students. It has also been great to meet a few of the parents and other relatives at drop off time. If you have a chance, please pop in and say hi.

A little bit about me…

I started teaching at CLGPS in 2016 and taught Yr 6/7’s. Last year I only taught my Yr 3/4 class for a term before I went on maternity leave. I now have an 11 month old son, named Jensen. Before CLGPS I worked at a primary school in a small country town near Roxby Downs called Andamooka. I taught there for 4 years, in multi-age classes from Years 2-6.

I am looking forward to the year ahead, working with both Ms Gill and all the students.

If you need to contact me, my email address is meghann.jolly996@schools.sa.edu.au

Kind regards,

Meg Wright

Enterprise Day is fast approaching on Wednesday Week 11. Room 17 will be having a craft and sweet stall. For our craft stall we will be making and selling a variety of things including stress balls.  We had a practice today using balloons and flour. Apologies if your child came home covered in flour 🙂

For our sweet stall students have decided we should make and sell Jelly, smiley face biscuits, and teacup biscuits.

  

In order to make these treats we are in need of donations

smiley biscuits –  packets of arrowroot biscuits,  lolly snakes, bananas, freckles, smarties, icing sugar and food colouring

Jelly – plastic cups, jelly crystals

Teacup biscuits – Tic-Toc biscuits, marshmallows, freckles, white chocolate and musk lollies/lifesavers

Any plastic platters or trays that we can put our finished products  on, would also be great also. Of course they will  be washed and returned to you.

Finally, if you are available next Tuesday between recess and lunch and are DCSI and RAN trained I would love some parent help. While we have picked simple treats that don’t require cooking an extra pair of hands would be great.

Krista 🙂