Some holiday reminders

Just in case you haven't checked out the school calendar lately I thought I'd add some of the up coming holidays and events.

April 19th: No School (Inservice day for the teachers. Teachers will be at the Nordic Network on Friday and Saturday)
 May 1st: Public Holiday
May 3rd: Field trip; Year 4 will use their new knowledge about the human body in a day hike. (more information to come)
May 9th & 10th: Public Holiday & 'squeeze day'
May  14th - 21st Culture Week; The spring show will be on May 15th at 18.15-19.45 for Years 3-5 (K-2 will start earlier 16.30-18.00)
June 6th & 7th: Public Holiday & 'squeeze day'
June 14th: Last day of school; school should finish at 11.00 (to be confirmed)

We also should be having a sports day before the end of the school year
You can always check out the school calendar at the school website here

Homework week 15

Homework this week is as follows

Due Thursday

• make two good sketches of two different things from nature you found outside or around your house. with a coloured pen outline the geometrical shape or pattern that you found in the object. (remember; don't use a ruler when sketching).
• Using detailed instructions write up a lesson for teaching a skill to the class. This could be how to kick a ball, juggle, etc. Think back to the homework from the other week when you learnt something from your mum or dad. But this time you will be teaching the class something. Make sure that if you need equipment it is something you can bring in or we can get from school (like the PE hall). Make sure you know what muscles and joints you need to use for this skill. write you instructions like this:

Title:

what I am going to teach:

How I am going to teach it:  add you instructions here in sequential form (step 1, step 2,...)

How do you know that people have learnt the skill?:

Due Friday

• Reading diary + raz kids

BAMBA menu week 15

                               School Menu  

Week 15                           8-12 April                                                       

                 

Monday               Spaghetti Bolognese

                 Veg:   Soya spaghetti Bolognese

Tuesday              Kebab stew and rice

                 Veg:   Kidney bean stew and rice

Wednesday         Pasta with cheese and broccoli sauce

                 Veg:   Same as above

          At Guldheden school there is served a vegetarian buffet

Thursday            Fish with cold sauce and potatoes

                 Veg:   Broccoli cake with cold sauce and potatoes

Friday                 Meat soup, bread and cheese

                 Veg:   Vegetarian soup, bread and cheese

                            

    Every day we serve milk, water, salad, hard bread and margarine.                                                                 

Geometry

Today we talked about how mathematics is everywhere and all around us. We looked at Fibonacci numbers (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21,...and the Golden mean.we then went outside to find and collect items from nature that have geometrical forms and recognisable shapes.

Head, shoulders, Knees and toes

As you all know or now have done, some twice - Leane ;) our new unit of Inquiry is on How the world works where we have been focusing on the complexity of the machine/system that is our body. So far we have looked at our skeleton; what it does and how it is put together, as well as our muscles. Have also learnt how both systems work together so we are able to move. At the moment we are looking at our joints and what role they play.

Last week groups were given a task to build a working leg with some materials (elastic bands, paper clips, dowel rods, rubber tubing, and popsicle sticks). This was a bigger challenge than we first thought, but in the end we all able to make working models (with a little help).

This week taped up our thumbs to see just how much we need them. We discovered that we need them a lot! During the experiment we had some tasks that we had to do, colour in a picture, button up a button, tie a shoelace, zip up a zip and a few others. Some we found only a little bit harder than normal while other tasks were almost impossible to do! I think we all know have a new appreciation of our opposable thumbs! You can find out more about thumbs and who has them HERE



Drawing, a bit hard but something we could do without too much trouble

Exhibiting our advertising campaign open house

Last Friday we opened our doors to the public to show everyone the result of all our hard work over the last  six weeks. We had a great turn out of both students and parents who took time out of their busy schedules to check out our work.

Here are some photos from the great afternoon:

Week 13 homework

This week the homework will be reviewing and practicing for the end of unit test.
You can find the parts of the scope and sequence for mathematics that we have been following and learning and what the test will be on here

Worksheets: I have printed out a large amount of work sheets for the students to pick from tomorrow.These sheets cover all the areas of the S&S (scope and sequence). Students will be asked to take what they feel they need to work on.

Maths Practices Book: here are the pages that students can work on in their book. These pages cover many of the areas of the S&S.

• Fractions and decimals p.138
• Decimals - place value p.139
• Equivalent decimals p. 140
• compare and order decimals p.142
• addition and subtraction of decimals p.144-149
•  addition and subtraction of fractions p.114,115
• addition and subtraction of unlike fractions p.118, 119 (not part of the S&S)

(click on the picture of link)

pappa's pizza is a fun way to learn about fraction (more for beginners then the advanced)

Fraction flags is good to brush up on visually seeing fractions