Last week of school - Last week in the Prep School

Wow! Can you believe that our class are nearly all in the High School?!?! It is such a busy time in our Year 6 classroom at the moment. This week is technically our last working week since we only have 1-3 Periods together as a class next week. Most of the week will be spent preparing for Speech Morning and on our excursion.

THE GREAT ESCAPE EXCURSION - Details
A note will be coming home tonight explaining the details of the excursion but I wanted to put it on here as well.

When - Wed 28th Nov
Departing school - 9:45am
Returning back to school - 2:45pm

Music tutors have already been notified.

What to wear: Sport uniform (boardies optional)

What to bring: bather/board shorts, rash vest or radiator, hat, water bottle, towel (these are NOT optional items!)

Lunch will be provided on the day and no child should be bringing money.

It should be a fantastic end of year celebration for all the Year 6 cohort.

Orientation day - Year 7

Hi everyone,
Mr Revitt has informed boys today that they are able to wear sports uniform tomorrow to orientation day. The boys will be meeting in the Sandover at 8:30am for the welcome. They will not need any lunch or recess as this will be provided on the day, however they may bring a drink bottle and a hat (no need for school bag).

The orientation day will run as follows:
8:30am Collect name tags and welcome to the Senior School (Sandover)

8:45am Introduction and allocation to House Groups (Sandover)

9:00am Tour of the Southern Campus and photos

10:15am Morning tea (Sandover)

10:45am Physical Education Centre - introduction and minor games

12:45pm Lunch (Sandover)

1:30pm House areas and meetings with Head of House

2:45pm Sandover Dining Hall to finish programme

Boys who are attending music lessons or other out of classroom programs on the day have been asked to pair up with someone from their house to find out any information they will miss.

Good luck boys, I'm sure you will all have some fantastic stories to tell me on Monday.

Music - speech morning

Please find below the link for the poem boys will be performing for speech morning. It would be beneficial for boys to practice at home using this link.

http://wiki.ccgs.wa.edu.au/wiki/projects/year6music/Year_6__Music.html

Spelling week 6

Charlie:

1. tear
2. they’re 
3. everywhere 
4. ware
5. pare
6. spare 
7. prepare 
8. compare 
9. scare
10. flare


List 1:
1. area
2. prayer
3. affair
4. declare
5. despair
6. impaired
7. direpair
8. airily
9. warily
10. healthcare

List 2:
1. mayoral
2. variation
3. unbearable
4. millionaire
5. questionnaire
6. aquarium
7. aeroplane
8. aerodrome
9. aerial
10. transparent

List 3:

1. aerodynamics 
2. aerosol 
3. authoritarian 
4. barbarian 
5. clairvoyance 
6. debonair 
7. despairingly 
8. egalitarian 
9. forebears 
10. gregarious

Diary dates Week 5

MONDAY -  Sports training, inter-house basketball competition starts, Chapel, Library, Anglicare donations, extra Music session P3

TUESDAY - P.E,

WEDNESDAY - Chapel money, extra Music session P5

THURSDAY - Spelling test, sport bye (speech morning practice in Chapel), homework due

FRIDAY - ORIENTATION DAY

*Don't forget we are starting bottle rockets next week. You and your partner must collect 2 x 1.25L plastic bottles to use.

Week 5 homework and spelling words

Homework for this week:

SPELLING - Unit 33 oy and oi like boy, eer and ear like deer. Spelling test will be on Thursday due to orientation day on Friday!

MATHS - Mental maths double page for unit 20.

READING - Reading every night script for Speech Morning

SPELLING WORDS:
List 1:
1. spoilt
2. exploit
3. oyster
4. ointment
5. career
6. sincerely
7. persevere
8. theatre
9. material
10. voyager

List 2:
1. poisonous
2. boisterous
3. annoyance
4. turquoise
5. moisturise
6. souvenir
7. volunteer
8. interior
9. superior
10. auctioneer

List 3:
1. boysenberry 
2.  clairvoyant 
3. cuboid 
4.  deployment 
5.  exploitation 
6.  amphitheatre
7.  cafeteria 
8. engineer 
9.  perseverance 
10. puppeteer    
         

History projects presentations

All boys have been working hard at school and from what I have seen at home as well to complete their History Projects. All History Projects are due this Friday with no extensions possible due to marking and presentation to Mr Wright deadlines.

Each boy is required to present their final pieces of work along with all their planning documents. In their presentations boys must explain:
1. What your topic is and why you chose it.
2. What you enjoyed about your project.
3. What you found difficult when completing your project.
4. Show your 2 final pieces of work and explain what they are.
5. Tell us 4-5 interesting facts you learnt about your topic.
6. Summarise how well you think you worked and the effort you put into your final pieces.

Good luck boys in your final days! I can't wait to see all your work :)

Diary dates Week 4 Term 4

MONDAY - Sports training, Fiji information night, music (scripts), Chapel

TUESDAY - P.E, History projects, make up Art lesson

WEDNESDAY - Chapel money, Music swap P4 (scripts), History projects

THURSDAY - P.E, Inter-school sport

FRIDAY - Prep Rock Workshop Concert (tin of food), History Projects due, spelling test, homework due, Assembly, History Presentation, desk checks

DON'T FORGET HISTORY PROJECTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Spelling Week 3 and 4

Due to camp boys will have two weeks to learn their list words and will be tested on Friday of Week 4.

CHARLIE LIST:

flour, towel, noun, wound, outback, powder, bounce, counter, however, drowned

LIST 1:

drowsy, lounge, spouse, trousers, coward, browse, plough, council, counsel, powdered

LIST 2:

boundary, bountiful, accountant, allowance, mountainous, empowered, compounded, surroundings, cauliflower, doubtless

EXTENSION -
accountable, boundaries, boundless, bounteous, chowder, chow mein, councillor, counsellor, drowsily, endowment

FOCUS SOUND:
ou and ow

DIARY DATES - Week 3 Term 4

MON - WED Year 6 Camp.
REMEMBER - packed lunch, normal time to arrive for school Monday, pillow, sleeping bag, old clothes for canoeing, picked up at 2:30 on Wednesday.

THURS - Interschool sport (no boardies for groups playing other schools, no boardies to and from school either), Library

FRI - Callum's Birthday, Assembly, formals

COMING UP:
History Project due in Week 4

HOMEWORK:
Reading every night
No maths or spelling for this week.
History Project work.

Week 2, Term 4

DIARY DATES:

MON - Sport training, Art, Spelling test Unit 29, Book Club at lunchtime, choir

TUES - P.E, Yahoos, blue boardies can be worn for P.E (not worn to and from school)

WED - UNICEF free dress day - wear blue, Library 8:30am, chapel money

THURS - Inter-school sport (no boardies if playing against another school), P.E

FRI - Assembly (Golden Broom), Spelling test Unit 30, homework due, first part of history project should be near completion

NEXT WEEK:
On Camp Mon - Wed

HOMEWORK:
Spelling - practice weekly words and complete any unfinished book work from class
Maths - complete second page of mental maths unit 19
Writing - History project (one aspect of project should be nearing completion by the end of this week)
Reading - every night

SPELLING LIST:
Charlie and Charlie:
lose, enclose, desert, grease, freeze, dazzling, excuse, cause, adviser, disease

List 1:

citizen, resident, hazardous, magazine, zealous,  treasury, leisurely, enclosure, adhesion, explosion

List 2:

uncivilised, advertising, compromise, emphasise, familiarise, transfusion, diversion, persuasion, luxurious, camouflage

Extension: 
abysmal, bazaar, bizarre, chasm, exasperate, abrasion, artesian, audiovisual, barrage, beige

Focus questions for the history project

KEY QUESTIONS TO GUIDE RESEARCH FOR HISTORY PROJECT:
1. What is your topic and your personal connection?
2. Who was involved in your topic?
3. When did your topic commence and end (if necessary), include important/key dates?
4. Where your topic was located and why?
5. How is your topic linked to Australian history?

Boys are required to complete their research and collect all materials required by the end of the holidays. Writing should be completed at school to show that each boy is completing their own work. Parents may assist boys but overall each boy should be completing their own work.

All history projects are due in Week 4 of Term 4 and then will be marked and presented to the class in Week 5.

Good luck boys!

Layered cookie jar

Today we made our own cookie jars to take home as a special activity. Below are the ingredients are recipe if you would like to make your own at home:

Cookie jar mix (layer each ingredient in jar one at a time)
750 ml jar
3/4 cup plain flour
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp bicarbonate of sode
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup castor sugar
3/4 cup rolled oats
100g chocolate chips
130g white chocolate chips

RECIPE

1.  Preheat oven to 180 C and line 2 oven trays with baking paper.

2.  Empty jar into a large bowl and add 125g cooled melted butter, 1 egg and 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.

3.  Stir until well combined.

4.  Roll mixture into 24 ping pong sized balls.

5.  Flatten, then put them on prepared trays about 5cm apart.

6.  Bake for 10-15 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool.

ENJOY!!

Week of the arts / Homework

Wow can you believe it is already nearly the end of Term 3?! We have lots of upcoming events for next week as well as many fun activities to conclude the term.

HOMEWORK - Due to the amount of extra activities this week boys will only be required to practice their spelling words for the week. We started looking at these words yesterday and boys will be tested on Tuesday to ensure the test results will be in their Learning Journeys for Wednesday. Boys will be able to practice their spelling words this week as they choose.

WEEK OF THE ARTS:
MONDAY - Cookie jar measurement activity in our classroom (boys need to remember their ingredient), and opening night for Week of the Arts from 6pm.

WEDNESDAY - Father / Son breakfast from 8am in the Sandover, Father / Son debates and then Learning Journeys to follow in the classroom and after school Learning Journeys from 3-6pm after school.

THURSDAY - House shout from 1:30pm in the Chapel.

FRIDAY - Grandparents / Grandfriends day (welcome to attend assembly and then look around classrooms) and early dismissal at 12:30pm for Year 6 boys.

Homework week 9

Wow can you all believe it's nearly the end of Term 3!?! Next week we have a very busy week with preparations for week of the arts, making water filters and finishing off a lot of our formal work ready for Learning Journeys.

A big congratulations to all the boys involved in the Year 6 Productions 'The Odyssey'. It was an amazing opening night last night and I'm sure will be just as great for tonight and tomorrow night.

Week 9 homework:
MATHS: Finishing off any set mathletics tasks that haven't been completed and 'Decimals, percentages and fractions' booklet that haven't been completed by Tuesday in class.

WRITING: Complete front cover for 'The boy in the dress' to be stapled to book review answers done in class.

SOSE: Complete home water survey

SPELLING: sheet and game

Charlie and Charlie:
1. soot
2. sugar
3. woollen
4. woolly
5. wolf
6. couldn't
7. would've
8. shouldn't
9. crooked
10. fully

Spelling list 1:
1. hoodwink
2. ambushed
3. bullying
4. pulleys
5. bullocky
6. cuckoo
7. crookedly
8. rookery
9. whoosh
10. bushel

Spelling list 2:
1. bulrush
2. fulsome
3. bulletin
4. bullion
5. courier
6. likelihood
7. fulfillment
8. fulfilling
9. ebullient
10. woomera

Extension:
1. boongary
2. bulbul
3. bullan-bullan
4. bullroarer
5. bulwark
6. chequebook
7. falsehood
8. fulcrum
9. fulminate
10. fulmination

Eutrophication

As a class we are looking at a range of resources about Eutrophication before we write our own explanation. Below are some of the videos we will be looking at as part of the process in class:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGqZsSuG7ao

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qON4FtQAKOs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uht-jLhWUrE&feature=related

Aussie Optimism

Our re-scheduled party will be next Tuesday (11th September) lunchtime. If boys can try to remember to bring a plate of food to share and we will also watch a movie to celebrate the end of Aussie Optimism.

Diary dates Week 8

MON - Chapel, art, house jumps, bring any resources needed for Australian Anthem activity in music

TUES - P.E,

WED - Library, Chapel money, House Shout

THURS - House Shout, interschool carnival, P.E, Year 6 Play

FRI -Gallery excursion (art and classroom budget), Assembly, spelling test, homework due, Year 6 play

Coming up soon:
Week of the arts
Father/Son breakfast and debates
Learning Journeys

Upcoming maths test

Our mid-term maths test is coming up fast. As a class we have created an "I can do checklist" for the boys in Miss Axton's maths group. Using this checklist to study is good preparation for next year where the senior school also use this tool.

Today in maths we came up with some examples and did a bit of revision to refresh our minds. It is now up to the boys in their homework time to either complete the example questions we wrote or revise in a way that suits them e.g. study cards, work books, mathletics, etc.

The maths test will be on conversions, equations involving conversions, perimeter, area of rectangles and shapes that can be broken into rectangles, as well as area of triangles. Some worded problems have also been included to really challenge the boys.

Our measurement mid-term test will be in Period 1 this Thursday. Good luck boys!

Congratulations enrichment boys

Congratulations Morgan, Max, Riki and Aaron for achieving such great results that you will be competing in Melbourne for Nationals. We wish you all the best of luck.

Swan River Poetry - Jack

I was lying across a plank,

For that special place was a tree,

Built along a riverbank,

Shining as a message to be,

It wasn’t much but it was enough,

The tree wasn’t all but rough.

Water splashing against the bay,

Filling my mouth with all the salt,

Making me wonder whether to stay,

Feeling like doing a somersault,

Parakeets chirping as though with glee,

Watching the dolphins trying to flee.

The waves spiraled around me,

Glittering in the mighty sun,

Giving me so much company,

I was alone but having fun,

It made only try to think,

Not to miss a single blink.

For when in my bed at night,

I think of the masses of pollution,

Which can’t but give me a fright,

I think everyone must show cooperation,

To clean up the almighty river,

So that more people can go hither.

By Jack Beaman 

HOMEWORK Week 7

Maths - boys are to prepare for maths test. They are required to prepare either flashcards or practice sheets to help them study. They will be provided with a checklist of skills they need to have for the test on Monday. (Maths assistance boys need to complete at least 5 Mathletics live games this week and make sure all their tasks are up to date)

Writing - communicating with email activity sheet

Spelling - sheet and game/online Learning Objectives

Reading - allocated chapters for 'The boy in the dress' - Chapter 15 over weekend.

Spelling lists:

Charlie and Charlie :
burnt
burst
refer
prefer
person
perfectly
reverse
research
earthen
worse

List 1:
pearly
urgent
cursive
furnish
burden
absurd
murmur
surgeon
occurred
recurring

List 2:
concerned
surfacing
journal
adjourn
courtesy
circular
reversal
rehearsal
interpreter
curvature

List 3: (extension)
university
discernible
emergency
disturbance
circumnavigate
attorneys
certifiable
circulation
earnestly
entrepreneur

Diary dates Week 7

MON - Chapel, House Jumps Year 4-6 2:00-4:00pm

TUES - P.E, CCGS Gift 1pm on the oval

WED - Art shirts, chapel money, house shout practice

THURS - House shout practice, Athletics Carnival Yr 3-6 10:30am - 2:40pm Mt Claremont

FRI - Homework is due, desk check, spelling test

Swan River Poem by Max

As night fell upon the murky river,
A lone black swan dashed onto the shore,
It fell to the ground and started to quiver,
Looking weak all the way down to the core,
Occur this did upon the bay,
Under the stars of the Milky Way.

I ruffled his feathers and smelt blood,
The poor little bird had an injury,
I started looking for members of his brotherhood,
The creature had been injured nearly fatally,
Take care of the bird I did for a while,
Allowing him and the water to reconcile.

At last I was able to let him go,
Although I felt sad and lonely I must,
So away he floated on the river flow,
Back into the world he was thrust,
Darker and Gloomier the bay now felt,
So I ran away at a fast little pelt.

Back home I am now behind the brick walls,
Thinking of the bird of which I have saved,
Feeling proud of my desperate little cause,
Helping the animal that was hopelessly depraved,
After all this action in just one little day,
I think I'll go sleep and think of the bay.

Maths homework helper

Any boy who has trouble with this week's maths homework can use the following website to help.
http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/dictionary.html

If you enter the site and click on area, is comes up with a definition and some practice activities. On the bottom right it will have an arrow and "Standard Units". If you click on here it will take you to an explanation of how to find area of a triangle.

This is a fantastic (free) website that can be extremely useful for a range of topics when doing homework.

Yearr 6 Production

A number of boys in our class are involved in the upcoming Year 6 production 'The Odyssey'. The production will take place on the 13th, 14th and 15th of September. I'm sure they would love to have as many of us come and see them as possible.

Tickets can be booked via trybooking www.trybooking.com/BQMG

Good luck to all boys involved. We know you will be spectacular!

Homework week 6

Homework for week 6 will be returning back to some kind of order now that everyone has been present this week.

Boys will be given their homework today to counter for the long weekend. Homework will be as follows:

SPELLING - complete spelling worksheet and game/online learning objectives
WRITING - boys will continue their note taking for their introduced species information report.
MATHS - boys will be given an area worksheet to continue our work from this week
READING - chapters will be allocated on Tuesday of next week for our class novel 'The boy in the dress'

All homework will be due Friday except reading. With our class novel boys will be allocated certain chapters for certain nights to allow for our class discussions each day..

List 1:
1. assist
2. biscuit
3. accept
4. wrestled
5. service
6. licence
7. answered
8. respectful
9. citizen
10. scientific

List 2:
1. decision
2. immensely
3. deception
4. dissension
5. especially
6. evidence
7. syndicate
8. society
9. responsible
10. medicinal

List 3: (EXT)
1. persistence
2. unnecessary
3. unexpectedly
4. conscientious
5. psychology
6. accelerate
7. adolescent
8. analysis
9. assassin
10. cynical

Have a fantastic long weekend everyone :)

The boy in the dress

Well the time has finally come!!!!!! Our class will be starting the novel 'The boy in the dress'.


We will be starting the book and reading Chapter 1 in class this week. All boys will be required to read Chapters 2-3 by next Tuesday.

The author of the novel is the one and only comedian David Walliams. Here is a quick youtube video about some of his personal views on life and how to become an author/comedian. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR2WCq3dW-A 

Helper for our poetry

SWAN RIVER WORDS:

NOUNS (and rhyming words): Black Swan – on, con, iron, shone Boats – floats, coats, coax, ropes Wildlife – wife, rife, life, strife Avon and Canning River – hither, shiver, wither Waves – caves, saves, raves Water – daughter, martyr, smarter, Fish – swish, dish, wish Eutrophication – adoption, nation, vacation Ecosystem – stem, system Algae –bee, sea, see, flee, quay, key Riverbed – said, fled, lead Shells – bells, sells, wells, Food chain – brain, distain, pain Mouth – south, Sand – hand, and, brand Sea grass – brass, glass, class, mass Tree – me, we, see, sea, he, bee Plants – ants, pants, Estuary – sanctuary (see tree) Body – (see other ee sounds) Nutrients – hence, trance Catchment – meant, spent, went, sent, sediment Seagulls – hulls, gulls, Serenity – infinity, tranquility, serenity, humanity, humility, humidity, sanity

VERBS Running Waving Moving Swaying Sailing Swimming Fishing Dancing Flying Skiing Crabbing Relaxing Camping Vomiting Floating Boating Blooming Donuting Dying Climbing Farming Building Buying Selling Surfing Drowning Rowing

ADJECTIVES: Wet Exotic Peaceful Pristine Cold Dry Hot Clear Pure Polluted Surreal Pretty Rough Smooth Impure Tranquility Rocky Fresh Salty Intangible Happy Exciting Sandy Tangy Scorched Memorable

TIPS TO REMEMBER FOR WRITING ·       The last sound must be the same. ·       Spelling doesn’t need to be the same, just the same phonic. ·       Last word in the sentence. ·       Must follow the pattern A, B, A, B, C, C, which means in each verse line 1 and 3 rhyme, line 2 and 4 rhyme and line 5 and 6 rhyme. ·       Must have 8 beats per line (syllables)