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Week 8 - Home Learning

Zoom Meeting 26/8/21

We had 19 students and 4 staff (Mrs Flanagan, Mrs Harrison, Mr. Hyatt and Mrs Burton) present at our Year 1/2 Zoom meeting this morning at 10:00a.m. Thank you to all of the students who brought something to share.  It was so good to see everybody's faces and to hear everyone's fabulous news.

Marcus showed us his cat, Nina shared a Picasso artwork and a beautiful Swedish horse toy, Florence shared a photo of a horse with its foal. Ellody was on a phone line and told us a story about seeing an echidna. Hannah had a baby lamb to show us. Today Leroy just listened to all of our news. Airlee brought her puppy dog Chilli and Rebee showed us Billy, the goat. Josie brought her little brother Ollie for her news and Hugh had some samples of rocks and crystals to share with us all.  

Shaun showed us his pet ringtail possum and Grace Fletcher told us that she has been learning how to sew.  Lochie Hoy had a toy army tank and Ryan showed us some great craft he had made. Jessica was going to show us her horse, then she was going to show us her cat but the cat ran away!   Kiara talked about her dog at home.  Katie showed us her toy Llama and Grace S showed us her lovely dog.

We saw other siblings (brothers and sisters) in the backgrounds of our Zoom too.  We saw Penny, Henry, Ben, Lilah, Emily, Ellie, Morgan and Lucy.  It was so good to hear everyone's voices and see their faces.  Thank you for joining.  We will have another Zoom at the same time next week. 

Thanks everyone,

Mrs Flanagan

The Leaves by Nina Blomfield

I am walking on a very long, dusty path in the forest. The colourful leaves swoosh in the trees when the wind blows. Some leaves fall like butterflies to the ground.

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Photos of Learning at Home - Campbell, Addison & Grace

YR 1/2 is studying a unit of work in art time called, Fish and Sea Creatures.  One activity this week was for students to create a fish scene with objects at home such as their daily fruit.  

My Science Experiment         28-8-2021

With my science experiment we had to do two attempts. The first attempt we created a square for a base and built up but we realised that the higher we built it, it got more unstable. For our second attempt we tried it again with a triangular base and built in. It worked and it was successful so we added another pyramid to make it a little stronger to stand up.

What happens when you use a Square base against a Triangle base?

The higher you build with a square base it gets unstable each time you add something else to it. With the triangle base you need to make a pyramid to make it stable on the bottom and add more small pyramids to the top of the base pyramid.

What happens when the tower gets taller?

The square base gets more unstable when it gets higher. The triangular base tower is more  stable than the square base.

What happens when you use shorter spaghetti?

It limits you to the size you want to make it. Because when we used short bits of dry spaghetti we had limited options to make on the pyramid.

What are some ways you could strengthen your tower using other materials?

It would be sturdier if you used plastic straws and marshmallows because the plastic straws are thicker and can hold more weight than the dry Spaghetti.              

In conclusion, I enjoyed making a marshmallow tower with my family and the height of the tower was 37cm long and 27cm wide.

Religion wk8 - Maddie

Join us for Electricity Safety Week at Home: 6-10 September 2021

Here are three ways your students can participate from home: 

ACTIVITY 1 - Watch our electricity safety video series on YouTube

Students can learn some very important electricity safety messages by watching these videos in our YouTube series:

• What is electricity? (1min 30 seconds)
• Keeping safe (1 min 46 seconds)
• Electricity poles and powerlines (1 min 30 seconds)
• Staying away from electrical substations (1 min 15 seconds)
• Electricity and water don't mix (1 min 20 seconds)
• Metal is a conductor (1 min 50 seconds)
• What to do in an electrical emergency (1 min 20 seconds)

ACTIVITY 2 - Enter our Be a Safety Star student competition! 

Win $1,000 for your school P&C association and individual STEM prizes for student winners and runners up. Entry deadline has been extended to 5 November 2021. For more information and terms and conditions, visit our website here.

Years K-3 - Poster competition Two category winners (K-1 & Y2-3) will be chosen based on the best illustration of one or more electricity safety messages. Follow these simple steps to enter. 

• Download the poster design template here - make sure name, school, suburb, teacher name and year is included at the bottom of each poster
• Submit entries to postercomp@essentialenergy.com.au
   

Years 4-6 - *NEW* Superhero comic strip competitionOne winner will be chosen based on the best illustration of a superhero staying safe around electricity, with one or more electricity safety messages included. 

• Download the comic strip design template here - make sure name, school, suburb, teacher name and year is included on the top right-hand corner
• Submit entries online here. 

ACTIVITY 3 - Try some fun activities 

We have created some fun activities that students can do at home. These are available on our website or can be downloaded here:

• Find a Word
• Crossword 
• Maze Puzzle
• Snakes and ladders game 

Feel free to share your feedback on these resources, or if students have any ideas on other fun activities they might like to do! 

If you are delivering Electricity Safety Week 2021 activities at school for children of essential workers, we encourage you to use the classroom activities provided in your free resource pack or visit our website. We also encourage you to use the resources provided in Term 4 or another time that suits your school (e.g. Stage 3 Science & Technology Electricity Unit) 

Positive Partnerships - Welcome to the August 2021 issue of the Positive Partnerships Newsletter 

Contacting Your Child's Teacher

Teachers welcome contact from parents, if you would like to talk with staff please either contact the class teacher by phoning the school – 67772328 or email the school on spwadmin@arm.catholic.edu.au

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