Thank you to all the parents who attended our Parent Information Evening in Week One. Mrs Gomes and I are really looking forward to getting to know you in the coming weeks.
Please find attached the Pre Primary Information Booklet outlined at our Information Night.
If you have any further queries please feel free to contact me at paino-povey.victoria@cathednet.wa.edu.au
Over the past 7 weeks we have been learning about silkworms. We researched and wrote an explanation outlining their life cycle and then we then published our writing and read our work to our Year One buddies. The Year One’s loved listening to us and they really enjoyed seeing the silkworms in their final stage of life.
SILKWORM LIFE CYCLE
Stage 1: Eggs
Stage 2: Hatching
Stage 3: Eating
Stage 4: Growing and Shedding
Stage 5: Cocoon
Stage 6: Transformation into a silkworm moth “Bombyx Mori”
Stage 7: Mating
Stage 8: The life cycle starts again
Dear parents and students,
This term the students have been learning about the Earth, the Sun and the Moon. We have been investigating their orbits and rotations. Over the next few weeks we will be starting a new topic – looking at the Southern Hemisphere constellations. The students will be making a ‘constellation tube viewer’. To conduct this activity the students will each need an empty cardboard tube e.g., from a Gladwrap or foil container. The students will need the tube for their next science lesson. I will be seeing
4B on Wednesday 12th November, 5B on Friday 14th November, 4G, 4G Wednesday 19th November and 5G 21st November.
Please put your name on your tube and bring it along to Science when your class has their lesson.
I thank you for your support with this activity. It will be fun to learn more about the night sky. The constellation tube viewer will be something to bring home and share with the family.
Mrs Cogger
Mrs Cogger recommends the activity in the file below. It’s a twilight walk in the beautiful Beelu National Park.
This fortnight in cultural studies we have had the great pleasure of delving into the delicious and mouthwatering diversity of Indonesian food!
We discovered the different types of satay dishes, with a variety of sauces, such as candle nut and sweet soy along with the well known peanut!
The students were fascinated with the many ways banana leaves are featured in Indonesian cooking. Banana leaves are used to wrap and steam and boil meat and rice as well as a decoration and also used as a plate for many dishes.
We had a close look at the map of Indonesia and which islands the various foods are known to have originated from.
What deliciously fascinating learning!
The year 1-3 students compared their daily meals with those of Indonesia and wrote about what they found was most fascinating to them.
We have been reading the paper and the news on Indonesia including topics such as: politics, wildlife, culture, people and history.
The year 4-6 classes completed an activity comparing the similarities and difference with Australian foods.
We have been reading the paper and the news on Indonesia as well as topics such as: politics, wildlife, culture, people and history.
Literacy
Over the last few weeks we have been learning all about silkworms and their life cycle. We all used our note-taking skills to gather some interesting information.
Did you know that one cocoon is made of a single 600m thread? Or that silkworms have no sense of smell? Did you know that the male moth that comes out of the cocoon dies after three days and the female dies after she had laid her eggs?
Our teacher was VERY impressed by our computer skills and by the way that everyone helped each other to problem solve.
Integrated Studies
This week, during Integrated studies, we have considered our needs verses our wants. One of our tasks was to go shopping using catalogues. We discussed the term ‘budget’ and we were each given $50 to spend. This money had to include needs and the aim was to get as much for our money as possible. We all loved this activity, however we realised that $50 doesn’t go a long way if you don’t carefully consider shop specials and necessities.
Our home task for this week was to consider the question, “What costs do you think are involved in running your home and paying for the needs and wants of your family?”. We have collected information from our parents about the costs that are involved in running their household and this information will be used in our next lesson.
Following on from our ‘Finding Humour’ activity, we looked at images of things that make us happy. As a class we looked at many different pictures of clowns and then shared things about them that makes us laugh. We all drew our own ‘happy clown’ and selected bright colours to carefully paint the picture. The clowns have been drawn with their arms open as they are going to hold a meaningful quote about happiness.
This term we are working with fractions, decimals and percentages. To begin the week we have learned a little more about equivalent fractions by playing the game, ‘Property Developer’. To play the game you need two players, two dice and some counters. The aim of the game is to occupy the most apartments by rolling the dice and making a fraction. If you roll a 2 and a 3 then you can make the fraction 2/3 therefore you can occupy two windows on a three bedroom apartment. If your partner has already occupied this apartment then you could make an equivalent fraction such s 4/6 or 8/12 and occupy those apartments instead. This game is great for getting us to recognise that different fractions actually represent the same amount.
In Religion, we have been discussing the characteristics of what it means to be responsible. We identified that responsible people ask themselves three questions before making a choice:
Is this a loving thing to do?
Have I thought enough about this?
Am I free from strong emotions?
We discussed various choices that people make and then performed a ‘Freeze Frame’ of a scenario where people have made a good choice and where people have make a poor choice. As a class we discussed the consequences that we face as a result of our actions, the importance of the rules that we abide by in our communities and laws that we have to follow.
A reminder that our Year Six students will be receiving the Sacrament of CONFIRMATION at one of this weekends Masses.
A very special thank you to our Year Six teachers, to Mrs Aquino and to Parish Catechists for all their efforts in preparing the children and for preparing these Masses.
Pictured here is Charito who so very generously made our Confirmation stoles. A mother of seven children and a grandmother many times over, she has done a wonderful job and we are so very grateful for her special gifts and her kindness in getting this job done.
We wish all our candidates the very best for the day itself but of course even more than this, we pray that all they have learnt so far lis leading them to more fully appreciate the wonderful relationship between faith and real life! The Sacrament of Confirmation leads us to appreciate and feel safe in the knowledge that the Holy Spirit lives and breathes and moves in our lives as a source of great strength for the Christian journey. This strength empowers us to be GOOD NEWS in the world – to walk in the footsteps of Christ and to make a positive, life-giving difference.
A couple of youtubes that discuss the Sacrament of Confirmation – worth a listen to!
Science students at St Emilie’s know all about the Mystery Photo Competition that is held in class. Now it is also online. Click this link below and it will take you to Mrs Cogger’s website. Guess what the photo is and email your answer to Mrs Cogger. Details on how to enter are on the website.
http://thescienceworkshop.weebly.com/mystery-photo-competition.html
Good luck
