Families and Friends
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SMPS Family & Friends news
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F&F News:
- Quarantine Fun - Questions
- Holiday Homework
- Bunnings Fundraiser BBQ - Saturday 21st August
- Quarantine Fun - Answers
- Joke of the Week
Quarantine fun
Did you have a go at the puzzles in the newsletter published on the 24th of July? (The Term 3, Week 3 newsletter) If you haven't yet, they're below. Have a go!
The answers are at the bottom of this page.
🤔💭🤨❓ Try and find your way through the maze. Start at the 'In' arrow, and finish at the 'Out' arrow.
🤔💭🤨❓ Have you completed a Sudoku before? Each row, column and 9-cell-square needs to be filled out with the numbers 1-9, without repeating any numbers within the row, column or square. Good luck!
🤔💭🤨❓ Once this crossword is completed, the letters in the yellow squares spell out a word. Can you finish the crossword and figure out what the word is?
Across clues
1. What is used to write on a blackboard?
3. The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ are loveable, cheeky characters, (some have one eye, some have two eyes), who speak their own language, wear blue overalls and love eating bananas
7. Our fantastic school has four words in it's name. What is the first word?
11. The park opposite SMPS is named _ _ _ _ _ Park
12. On Rock Star Day, some people wear a _ _ _ on their head
13. The lowest prime number
15. What exercise are these children doing? A _ _ _ _ _ _
16. The night sky is filled with millions and billions of _ _ _ _ _
18. A lot of people enjoy eating a hot bowl of _ _ _ _ for dinner on cold, winter nights
19. An Australian animal that loves to eat eucalyptus tree leaves
21. The great city we live in
22. We have two of these on our face that enable us to see
23. A large, Australian bird that cannot fly
24. The biggest fish in the sea is a _ _ _ _ _ shark
25. Something fun to do in a pool on a hot day
28. A reflection of sound waves can cause an _ _ _ _
29. An Arctic _ _ _ is well adapted to living in cold environments, and is best known for its thick, warm fur that is also used as camouflage.
30. The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ are music band with well known songs such as 'Hot Potato' and 'Big Red Car'.
31. The fourth day of the school week
Down clues
1. An animal that makes a 'moo' sound
2. If I'm not going to do my homework now, I must do it _ _ _ _ _
4. Something sweet and sticky that is often spread on top of cakes
5. 12pm is also known as _ _ _ _
6. You need to place a _ _ _ _ _ on an envelope to mail it somewhere
7. Some people's favourite device is a Nintendo _ _ _ _ _
8. What do all the sides of a dice add up to?
10. What is the answer to this sum: (10 + 10) - 9 = ?
11. Something used to open your front door or a car
14. What colour do you get if you mix the colours of Montague house and Clarendon house?
17. This person is putting _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ on their feet
18. Something you do to a lemon to get the juice out of it
20. The most important meal of the day
21. You put food into this to eat
26. A famous mouse
27. Bluey's younger sister's name
Did you know there's an informal WhatsApp group for the SMPS community members?
There are separate chats for each year level (Grades 3&4 in the same chat) as well as a SMPS Friends Chat Group.
If you'd like to join the group, please get in touch with Doug Plant (ph: 0437 351 194) via text message or via WhatsApp.
Note: The What's app group is not monitored or maintained by SMPS or the SMPS Family & Friends group. Please rely on Compass newsfeeds and the Newsletter for official SMPS news and updates.
Holiday Homework
🟢🟡 Thank you very much to everyone who submitted homework stories or who have donated a toy to the SMPS Tub of Toys!
🔴🔵 In a future newsletter we will publish the stories and let you know who won some house points.
(Many of the details are in the school building and we can't access them at the moment.)
Bunnings Fundraiser BBQ - Postponed
We are sad to say that we have had to postpone the Bunnings Fundraiser BBQ.
We haven't been able to secure a new date for the fundraiser yet.
When we have more news, we'll pass the details on.
Thank you very much fo the generosity of those who reached out to support the event.
In the meantime, if you'd like to purchase something to donate to the SMPS Garden Club, below are some items on our wish list. These can be purchased from Bunnings and handed in to the SMPS office when we're back from remote learning.
⛲️ Watering cans 1.7 litre (cost around $5 each)
🧤 Children's gardening gloves (Hortex Grubs Hand Mate gloves) (cost around $4 each)
👨🌾 Sugar cane mulch (Oreco sweet gardener's 26m2 organic sugar cane mulch (costs around $17 each)
🌻 Take a closer look at this list from Bunnings for more items
Quiz answers
We hope you enjoyed the quizzes! Here are the answers.
MAZE: The yellow line is the way from through the maze.
SUDOKU: The blue numbers are the numbers that were pre-filled in the Sudoku.
The red numbers are the answers.
CROSSWORD: Here is the crossword fully completed with the answer to the mystery word.
Joke of the week
What do you call a messy hippo?
A hippopota-mess!