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Book of the week.

Last week our featured book was no. 6 in the Hot dog series by Anh Do, titled “Movie time”. Hotdog, Lizzie and Kev want to be movie stars, but they have to audition first to find the perfect roles.  Will they succeed? Borrow this book to find out.

This week in DC with the younger students, to coincide with the start of winter, we have read a beautiful picture book “Jacaranda snow” / by Catherine Greer.  Jess and her Gran live alone, and don’t have much, and certainly no money to afford a holiday to the snow. Jess has a dream to see snow, and she discovers a way to find purple snow.  The students all coloured in a snowflake and wrote a special dream on the back, then folded up the snowflake and put in their pocket for safe keeping. There is even a piano quarter composed by Alexander Lau, to accompany the book, which the students listened to as they coloured their snowflake.

Just a reminder to keep adding the books you have read to your challenge record. Students will also be given time to do this in DC over the next couple of weeks.

The challenge does not close until 6th September.

Holiday events - Anna Ciddor, the author/illustrator who visited our school at the end of term 1 is hosting a writing workshop/fun event on Tuesday July 2. Sounds like fun.  Please see attached full page flyer for booking details.

Happy reading,

Mrs. Johnson

Physical Education - Year Fives

Well the weather has certainly turned and that can only mean one thing … Football!

This semester, our Year Fives have been focusing on an Invasion Games unit. This has included Lacrosse, Rugby and AFL Football. We have tried our luck at the varying skills unique to each of these sports and examined which elements they have in common in order to apply our previous experiences to those that are new to us.

In this term, Rugby has been something new to most of our students and a game we have all enjoyed and had some success at. The students have been quick to pick up the skills, as they are quite common, but the rules and patterns of play have been considerably more tricky! How is rugby the only game that requires you to pass BACKWARD in order to move the ball FORWARD?!

This week we started the first of four weeks in clinics with an AFL Victoria guest coach. We have started by reviewing our basic footy skills and understanding with the view to apply our Invasion Game understandings to AFL Football game play. Over the next few weeks, we will use football activities as part of our warm-up and apply different sets of invasion game rules to our small game playing. Check us out in the photos and video below!

Video One                                                   Video Two                                                   Video Three

Chinese - Mandarin

端午节 (duan wu jie) -- Duanwu Festival，also known as Dragon Boat Festival, is one of the traditional festivals in China. It is on 5th of May every year in the Chinese lunar calendar. However, it is a different date every year in the western calendar. It is on 7th of June in the western calendar in 2019. During the festival, Chinese people eat zongzi (sticky rice wrapped in reed leaves/bamboo leaves) and race dragon boats. Students have learned the traditions of the Dragon Boat Festival and have made their own dragon boats!