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SEPTEMBER 2020 TERM 3 WEEK 7

Attendance - Classroom News - Community Events this week– Welcome to new Staff member

Each week a piece of MCS student art work will

feature as the watermark on each page of our

newsletter. This week we feature a wood burnt

breadboard by Joe, SLSO

Daniel will be dropping off Fathers Day goodies on

Friday between 12 and 2pm. If you are NOT going to

be home at those times, can you please contact MCS to

arrange a suitable delivery time. Thank you.

This Friday is PJ day at MCS!! Staff and students are encouraged to come to school dress in their favourite pj's, dressing gowns and 'bed hair'. Please note that all students are re-quired to wear their normal school shoes on the day due to Friday being sports day in K-6.

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Boys Girls Overall

80 80 82

Week 6 Winners

Class Award Certificates presented to -

K/1 - Anthony Bennett & Leon Biggs 2/3 - Walter Riley & Jaz Fusi 3/6 - Raiden Doyle 4/5/6 - Isiah Newman & Kyloh Havili

Tyrelle Harris

Malakaye Harris

Erin Hindmarsh

Brenda Flanders

Levi Smith

Kyloh Havili

Barry Flanders

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First of all, congratulations to Lucas, Brenda and Erin on all receiving their

silver awards last week! We have some more students who are very close to

receiving theirs as well!

In Week 6, 2/3 was the class of the week for speaking respectfully! This means

we are looking after the teddy this week and also each received a smencil.

In Writing we are working towards finishing our pieces of writing about

Menindee we started with Jane Carroll. Jane gave 2/3 lots of praise for the

progress they have made in writing and Miss Wright is very proud of you all!

We are focusing on the sound igh this week in Jolly Spelling and revising

Adjectives in Jolly Grammar.

In Geography we are investigating the names of places and their origins –

Aboriginal words, famous people and natural features. We will also explore

some unusual place names and make a song about places in Australia.

In Health, with the help of PossaBill, we are learning to reel in good feelings.

We will learn how to look for and find positive feelings within ourselves.

Don’t forget we go to library on Monday’s and also have sport on Friday’s so

wear your joggers.

Welcome to week 7!! Last week we wrote our very own book! That’s right, in

K/1 we are authors and illustrators! It was a ‘Who am I?’ book about farm

animals and at the end of the book there is a funny twist. We cannot wait to

read our book to the other classes this week.

In our writing lessons this week are going to be looking at how to write a

procedure by writing and following some recipes. We are going to make fairy

bread, choc chip cookies and fruit salad.

We have been trying so hard in reading groups over the past few weeks and

we are working really hard to learn all of the things we need to know to

become independent readers.

This week we are going to continue to use a range of materials in maths to

work on our addition skills. Mrs Jackson has been very impressed with the way

we have been using our counting skills to add two groups of objects together.

We cannot wait for pj day on Friday!!

Have a great week!

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The students from 3-6 continue to enjoy watching mini clips of Dreamtime

stories from the series Dust Echoes. The discussion around each clip and the

inferring about the underlying message continues to grow. I am loving the

students’ responses and understanding.

In photography we are looking at ‘colour’ as this week’s theme. Watch out in

the next couple of weeks for some samples of their work.

Last week 3-6 cooked pizzas with Mrs Clenton. I have been told they all loved

their pizza creations. This Friday we are cooking Custard Creams from an old

family’s recipe. I hope the children love them as much as my family does.

Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers, grandfathers, uncles and if you are like

me, the mum’s who do both jobs. We hope you have a fantastic weekend

and are spoilt by your loved ones.

4/5/6 have been working so hard in mathematics that they have blow the

socks off of Mrs Catt! She watched the students complete their long division

sums and was so impressed, she thought the kids were in high school!

We haven't told Mrs Catt about our accomplishments in science yet, but we

know she'd be proud of us! We know who invented the microscope, how he

came to invent it and also what he found first.....Be sure to ask the kids about

this at home! This week we will be going to the science lab to use our very own

microscopes.

Also, this week, we will be printing our narratives for our first step of editing. We

can't wait to publish them.

Until next week.

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