Term 3, Week 5

Wow Room 3, another awesome week – do check out our blog photos to see us sharing our princess prints in junior assembly, and painting tasty toast with Miss Giraud! We created some beautiful rainbows using our colour mixing skills, and learned more about photosynthesis and the energy (food) chain from the sun to the plants to us! We’ll be publishing some of these ideas in the coming week.

This week we’ll also look at the chemical processes involved in digestion and metabolism, and towards the end of the week we’ll take a “clean” look at excretion (poo!) and fertiliser. As well as learning more about money, we’ll be painting a new spring mural to replace our winter wall, continuing on with tennis for those children who have paid their tennis fees, painting some rocks, and even having a popcorn party when we farewell Miss Giraud on Friday.

Remember that now is the time to pay your swimming fees at the office or make alternative arrangements with Mrs Smith. Swimming begins on Monday 16 September so make sure you’ve got named togs, towel, swim bag and goggles lined up to go. If you haven’t returned your form with details of your swimming experience yet, please do. Also, please name all school uniform items ahead of time, and please – if you’re not already dressing and undressing yourself (including shoe buckles or laces, and turning inside out clothes the right way around…) now is the time to practice . Have a race to see how fast you can be! Details of times will be coming, however we will be swimming during the afternoons each day that fortnight, and parents are most welcome to meet us there to watch us swim and help us with our quick changes J Also, as we will need to eat early on swimming days, please make arrangements for packed lunches every day throughout this two week period – no sushi, bakery, subway or sausages will be available.