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.