We are launching straight into the week tomorrow with Library, Footsteps and Senior Lab taking our first two hours. Homework is also due tomorrow morning (I know lots of 46Awesomes remembered as I was informed gleefully by more than one on Friday afternoon that the weekend gave them one extra day to get it done!). Wednesday is the Athletics Carnival - remember to wear house colours, bring a full drink bottle and a sunsmart hat (both named) and to get lots of rest on Tuesday night ready to go on Wednesday morning. A big thank you to the parents who were contacted after volunteering to help - we will see you there, too!
Premiers' Reading Challenge will begin this week, so please watch for that note coming home over the next few days. Other notes that may be outstanding are 5/6 Camp Rumbug (this is now overdue) and UMPC notices (Year 4). There are also a few cooking permission slips also missing from my collection - please return as soon as possible as we cannot begin our cooking sessions until we have allergy/intolerance information from all students.
Three-Way Conferences will be held next week, on Tuesday and Thursday nights. The note detailing how to log on to the school's interview schedule was sent home at the end of last week. If you are unable to get to the school for an interview at the times listed as being available, please send a message via your child's diary as to when would be suitable on another day - I am some Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays after school. For those who haven't been in an interview in Cycle Three before, it consists mostly of going over your child's current goals, start-of-year assessment and discussing any areas of interest on all three sides of the conference. A reminder that as time slots are quite short, please do your utmost to be present at the classroom as close to your start time as possible.
What else... ah yes! My apologies for not updating the flickr stream more frequently. I will get to it this week. There are lots of interesting pieces of work to be shown, including our gummy bear fossil experiment and our subsequent (and impromptu) set up of an experiment involving different kinds of bread and the plant life they support (a.k.a., hypothesising why white bread molds so quickly?). Students also created models of amoebas last week (sorry if any burst in inopportune places!), and of the earth's layers the week before. We'll be exploring organisms slightly more complex than our single-cell models this week, and students will also be continuing their work on their Era PPT project in Senior Lab. The year five students are doing a great job mentoring the year fours through the functions in PowerPoint that they need to know how to use for future tasks.
Til next time,
Ang (Go Acacia!)
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