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Public Speaking Years 3-6
Each year, all students from Years 3 - 6 are involved in our Public Speaking Competition. Throughout Week 7 (beginning 3 September) students will be presenting their speeches in class. To be eligible for the finals, students must be ready to present from the Monday of Week 7. Semi-finalists are chosen from each of the class groups within the grade. These students then give their speech to the whole grade and between 4 and 6 (depending on the grade size) finalists are chosen. Parents of finalists are specifically invited to the finals which will be held in Week 9 on Thursday, September 20, 2018. Parents do not attend the in-class presentations.
INFORMATION:
All students are required to present a speech, on any chosen topic, to their class. We suggest that students choose something that they can speak knowledgeably about.
Speeches are written and rehearsed at home.
Parents are allowed to offer as much support as they can - this can include helping your child to write their speech.
Students are encouraged to use palm cards (not pages) during the presentation of their speech.
Time limits for speeches Year 3 and 4: 3-4 minutes. Year 5 and 6: 4-5 minutes.
The criteria for judging includes how the speaker:
Captures and maintains the interest of their audience.
Makes eye contact.
Delivers their speech fluently.
Meets the given time frame.
Relies on their notes.
Should you have any questions regarding your child’s participation in the Public Speaking Competition, please contact their classroom teacher.
Mathematics Overview of Learning Week 3-4
Please find attached further information and activities to support the learning that is occurring in the Mathematics learning spaces for Week 3-4.
Summarising Comprehension Strategy
What is comprehension? There are two main components of reading – decoding and comprehension. Decoding is where we work out what the words SAY, and comprehension is where we work out what they MEAN. Students need to go beyond decoding to derive meaning from a text. To comprehend is to go beyond the word level to get to the big picture. There are lots of ways students can show us that they understand the text – recall information, give a response, answer questions, interpret pictures and make connections. Research has found that students, who are struggling to read, focus more on word accuracy than comprehension. Students are explicitly taught comprehension strategies in class. In Weeks 3 and 4, students are specifically focusing on the comprehension strategy of SUMMARISING. To reinforce student learning, parents are encouraged to utilise the following strategies at home when reading with your child.
Numeracy Key Skills 15 and 16
Please note that Year 2 only has Key Skill 15. All the Key Skills for Grade 2 have been published in previous newsletters. There are no set amount of Key Skills for each grade. It is dependent on the grade specific content from the NSW Mathematics Syllabus.
Year 4 Assembly
Year 4 have been busy rehearsing for The Year 4 Assembly this Friday 17 August at 12:35 pm. We would like to invite parents and friends of Year 4 to come and watch them showcase the amazing things they have been learning this year.
100 Days of Kindergarten
On Friday 3rd August, Kindergarten celebrated being at school for 100 days. What a wonderful achievement! It was a fantastic day focusing on the number 100, Miss Wilks and Miss Johnson even dressed up as 100 year old ladies! KJ and KW enjoyed using 'hundreds' and thousands to make fairy bread, painted 100 dots in ten frames, looked at bags of 100 items on their classroom windows and many more exciting activities. After such a great day, we finished off with a delicious, chocolate cake topped with 100 M&M's!
National Science Week
Week 4 is National Science Week and students from K-6 have been busy investigating a range of science experiments. Kindergarten enjoyed making a thaumatrope to show how reef animals live in their marine environments. Year 2 were learning about how push and pull affects the flotation of objects in water. All students will create a paper plane this week to enter into a Paper Plane Competition on Friday.
Philip 'Wildman' Green - Aboriginal Survival Technology
On Monday 13th August, Philip 'Wildman' Green came to visit K-6 students to present a visual and tactile experience of traditional technologies used by indigenous peoples across the varied environments of Australia. Students were thoroughly engaged in Philip's presentation listening to real life experiences, viewing photographs and interacting with real artefacts.
