Literacy News
For the third year, St Kilda Park is entering the Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee. The competition is open to all our students in Year 3/4/5 & 6. It is free to enter the online competition which I will run with students on Friday 15th August.
Entrants will be required to answer 30 random spelling words (timed) per round. Students are required to be signed up by a teacher, so please let me know by close of business Friday August 8th if your child/children would like to participate.
Here is the link if you would like to read up a little more about the competition. You can also access the online consent form in this link which you will need to complete for your child to participate.
Send me an email on jacqueline.morphy@education.vic.gov.au. Please attach the consent form to your email.
Thank you to those that have already reached out and expressed interest.
Term 3 Novel Studies
Below is a list of the novels that classroom teachers have started with their students. The Foundation - Year 2 teachers will introduce a new text every 2 weeks.
I will share the next round of texts and skills that are being addressed in a coming newsletter. The Years 3-6 teachers will spend the first 5 weeks studying the first text listed and then move on to the second text.
| Year | Novel | |
|---|---|---|
| F | Giraffes Can't Dance | Writing focus - concept of a sentence Nouns and ad |
| 1 | The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name | Expanding simple sentences Adverbs |
| 2 | The Stone Lion | Personal pronouns and possessive adjectives |
| 3 | The Iron Man | Writing focus - Information Reports |
| Charlotte's Web | Writing focus - Narrative | |
| 4 | Storm Boy | Writing focus - Information Reports |
| The Wild Robot | Writing focus - Persuasive Letter | |
| 5 | Tom Appleby, Convict Boy | Writing focus - Information Reports |
| The Grandest Bookshop in the World | Writing focus - Narrative | |
| 6 | Once | Writing focus - Information Reports |
| Can You See Me? | Writing focus - Persuasive Letter |
In Year 3, the students are using the novel The Iron Man as their mentor text. The students have been doing a lot of learning around different sentence types. Have a look at Jack S's sentences after just one session of introducing the text.
Sacred Heart Pen Pals
It was very exciting to share some fabulous letters with our students from our special friends at The Sacred Heart Community.
I would really love to encourage more students to write a letter to a member of the Sacred Heart Community as I know first hand how much joy it brings them. I am ready to start collecting the next batch of letters.
If your child/children would like to be a part of this group, please support them to address a letter 'Dear Pen Pal, and they can write about any of their interests, family, holidays, favourite things to do at school etc..
If you have a letter to share, please pass it on to Jac or leave it on my desk.
The Sacred Heart Community Pen Pals
The Sacred Heart Community Pen Pals
SKiPPS & Readings
A reminder to all that if you are purchasing any new books, please support our local Readings store. If you mention that you are a part of the St Kilda Park Primary School Community, they will put a % of your spend aside for our school to use.
Last year, we were able to send a class to Readings for an outing where they all selected a new book for their classroom library. The money from your purchases really helped make that an affordable way to put new books in the classrooms, books that the students selected and really want to read. It would be amazing to be able to send another class this year.
Jac Morphy
Assistant Principal