HAPPY PRINCIPALS DAY

Friday 7 August is National Primary Principals Day which gives us the opportunity to show our appreciation.

"Thank you Mrs Cosentino for setting high expectations for our students and educators. As Principal, you have shaped the conditions for our teachers and students to learn and succeed. We are forever grateful for your impact on this school."

CRAZY HAIR OR HAT DAY!! 14 AUGUST

Friday 14 August we will be having CRAZY HAIR OR HAT DAY!

So put your imaginations to work and let's see how crazy students (and maybe teachers?) can make their noggin, cranium, crown, skull, nut!

We will see everyone during the Live Lessons throughout the day and at our 3pm whole school assembly.

Be there or be square (can you make your head square??)...

Be involved, be connected

This term our Student Assembly will have one student from their class to showcase what they have been learning.

We started with the Prep team on Friday 31st July and below is the roster for the next couple of weeks. So don't forget to tune in!

Year 1 Friday 14th August

Multi-age Friday 28th August

Specialist Friday 11th September

Remote Learning in 2/3D

In 2/3D we have been exploring Non-Fiction Text Features, Procedure Writing, Geography and our passions. Here are just a few examples of the amazing learning happening at home! Be involved, be connected!

Title: How to cook brownies - Procedure writing by Audrey

Materials: Brownie packet, two large eggs, 125g butter, mixing bowl, wooden spoon, shallow baking dish, baking paper, oven set to 180 degrees (fan forced).

Procedure:

1. Crack two eggs into the mixing bowl and beat them with the wooden spoon.

2. Add in the butter (melted in the microwave), and brownie mix (not icing), and stir with the wooden spoon to blend into a thick goo.

3. Pour into a baking dish already lined with baking paper and smooth it over with the wooden spoon.

4. Place in the oven for 25 minutes.

5. Lick the spoon and mixing bowl until they are clean and your face is covered with chocolate brownie mix.

6. Put the bowl and spoon away pretending that you washed them.

7. After 25 minutes take the baking dish out of the oven and leave to cool for 10 minutes.

8. Spread the icing smoothly over the cooked brownie mix.

9. Cut a huge slice of brownie for yourself and eat until you’re sick.

Congratulations on a successful brownie experience!

How to make a paper plane - Procedure written by Alberta

Procedure writing pictures by Luther- How to Make a Paper Plane

Geography by Sid

How to Have A Surprise Party- Procedure writing by Tavi

Goal: To make sure that the person doesn’t know that I am planning it

Materials: cake, decorations, friends, family, balloons and party food

Steps

1. First make a cake.

2.Then put the decorations up.

3. Next you lay out the cake and the birthday food.

4.Then the next step is to put the balloons in the lounge room.

5. Next thing, invite the friends and family.

6. Let the birthday girl or boy come out and enjoy the party 🥳

How to brush your teeth 🦷- Procedure writing by Taismeen

Goal to make your teeth shiny and white

Materials toothpaste, water, cup, towel and a toothbrush

Steps

1. Fill your cup with water💧and then put some water on your toothbrush.

2. Get whatever toothpaste you have and apply it on your toothbrush.

3. Move your toothbrush up and down then side to side, left and right cleaning each & every tooth.

4. Get some water and spit it out, repeat step 3 and 4 again.

5. Wipe your mouth with a clean towel and you are done.

Felix- Explaining non-fiction text features in video

Lewis- Created a short film and posted it online

Remote Learning in Team 1PY/KB

We are so proud of our team of learners! Our Team Chats have been full of positive energy from their bright smiles and great sense of humour. Here are a few snippets of our learning journey so far!

2020 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day

The Theme for Children’s Day 2020 is:

‘We are the Elders of tomorrow, hear our voice.’

The Specialists Teachers have embraced Children's Day and engaged students in online lessons to learn about, appreciate and experience aspects of Indigenous culture.

In Physical Education students have been introduced to Indigenous games by Olympian Beki Smith.

Beki Smith is an Australian Race Walker and her message is ‘for the wider Australian population to start the conversations around Aboriginal culture and history'.

The Traditional Indigenous games students took part in this week have been gathered from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies all around Australia.

Diyari Koolchee is one of our favourite games at school and also attempted at home this week.

Background:

This ball-throwing and hitting game was played by the Diyari people from Eyre Lake in South Australia. The Ball was called koolchee.

In Performing Arts, the Prep and Grade 1 students read a story written and illustrated by Sally Morgan, "Where's Galah". This fits into our current drama topic of sound effects, as the students could read along and make noises according to which Australian animals that dingo could hear.

All the students began to learn a song called Red Dust Sky which was written by Deborah Cheetham, AO. She is of the Yorta Yorta people near Shepparton, and is an opera singer, musician and composer. There is a phrase in the song:

Wirlankara yanama yurlu nyinku mirda yurndarida

Which means that we should bring an open and honest attitude to visiting another space or land.

In Visual Arts Students created Indigenous art

In STEM, the Prep and Grade 1 listened to a book called “Shake a Leg”by Boori Monty Pryor and Jan Ormerod.

“Shake a Leg” illustrated what dance can mean and represent for our First Nations People. Indigenous dances often signifies traditional stories and rituals. The students then used code in STEM to dance, showing the correlation between coding using Scratch Jr and dancing processes.

The Year 2/3 and the Year 5/6 watched a video about Tanderrum, a ceremony that brought together the 5 Kulin Nations that traditionally lived in the Port Phillip region. Tanderrum is about the giving of permission ‘for people to come on to your country provided that they follow your rules of your country, your lore’. The students then learnt a dance using code and then used code.org to code a dance party.

The Year 3/4 participated in a live session about using Scratch to code and Gadigal Language with Chantelle O’Donohoe. Gadigal Language was the language of the indigenous people whose traditional lands are located in Sydney. Chantelle is a Nukunu woman from Port Augusta, South Australia from the Indigenious Digital Excellence(IDX) program.

Hi South Melbourne Park Primary School STEMgineers, from Felix, Director of STEM

I hope you’re all keeping busy at home with lots of different STEM activities.

It’s exciting all the preps are becoming scientists this term. I’d definitely be a Physicist, Computer Scientist and Engineer like Tim Berners Lee who “invented” the World Wide Web. You can read about him here:

https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Kids.html

Did you know it is National Science Week from August 15-23?

National Science Week usually has lots of events at different science places like Scienceworks and the Museum, but because we are all staying home there are a lot of activities online this year.

You can check out the official website at: www.scienceweek.net.au

The theme this year is Ocean Life to help celebrate all the clever ideas to clean up our oceans and protect the ocean life. You can find lots of great at home science activities to do here: https://www.scienceweek.net.au/diy-science/

And the SMPPS STEM Leaders are putting out a challenge. We want to see you get busy building ocean life in LEGO.

Can you design/build a LEGO ocean scene, fish, creature, habitat or show how the ocean can be used to create energy with the power of the waves and wind? If you fancy it you can build a machine to help clean up the ocean or to protect endangered sharks and whales.

Maybe it is in the deep, deep ocean trenches, the rockpools, coral reefs, South Melbourne beach or imagine your favourite ocean.

You can watch the CSIRO video for their national challenge for a good understanding of the importance of our oceans and what you could create.

https://vimeo.com/433830238

Once you’ve created your scene please put a photo or video on your Seesaw in your STEM folder and we will put together a slideshow gallery of the school’s creations. Please add this to Seesaw before the end of the day on Thursday August 20 to be included in the slideshow gallery.

For Preps and Grade 1s you might like to listen to the ABC Kids Podcast Imagine This “Why Are There Waves?” tap here

https://www.abc.net.au/kidslisten/imagine-this/why-are-there-waves/11093006

We can’t go to the LEGO Discovery Centre at Chadstone right now but that's ok because they have lots of good ideas to make at home with your own LEGO blocks. Here are some good ocean creature build ideas and instructions:

https://melbourne.legolanddiscoverycentre.com.au/media/191337/activity-pack-aquarium-week.pdf

Each week LEGO Discovery channel has a Live build lesson on Tuesday and Sunday and publishes an activity pack with fun instructions, games, activities and word searches. You can see all the older packs and ideas like this octopus I made here:

https://melbourne.legolanddiscoverycentre.com.au/live-workshops-with-kieran/#live-workshop-with-kieran-1

Remote Learning in 3/4H

In 3/4H we have been exploring Non-Fiction Text Features, Procedure Writing and Geography. Here are just a few examples of the amazing learning happening at home! Be Involved, Be Connected!

Coco’s curiosity upon exploring the continent of Oceania

Title: Making a paper aeroplane - Procedure Writing by Tom Barden

Goal: To make a paper aeroplane.

Materials:

• 1 piece of A4 paper

• a mat to work on

• pen/paint for decoration (optional)

Steps:

1. Place the A4 paper on the mat with the short side towards you.

2. Take the top left and fold it over to the top right corner. Make sure the bottom corners are aligned. Form a crease on the folded edge.

3. Open the paper again and you should see a crease running down the page.

4. Take the top left hand corner and fold it to the centre crease, it should make a triangle shaped fold.

5. Take the top right hand corner and fold it to the centre crease, it should look like an arrow pointing away from you.

6. Take the top left hand edge and again fold it into the centre crease, and fold the crease flat.

7. Take the top right hand edge and again fold it into the centre crease, and fold the crease flat.

8. Fold the left side to the right side, along the center crease.

9. Turn the plane towards you, so the centre crease is facing you. Then fold the top flap down leaving about 2cm to the center crease. This creates the first wing.

10. Turn it over and fold the flap down so it lines up exactly with the first wing.

11. Now your plane is ready to decorate.

3/4H students using the new Live Lesson Platform of the SMART Learning Suite Online to investigate financial mathematics. Students estimated how much money a chair, a new pair of Nike shoes will cost and how much money you need to experience happiness.

Class brainstorm of text features and their use to make meaning when reading non-fiction texts. This is Luke Scholmann’s understanding of text features.

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