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The Cooyar Chronicle

T E R M 3 W E E K 2 - 2 0 2 0

Keira Ryan holding her blue ribbon earned at

the South Burnett Trials. Next she we hope to see her win another and go

on to the Wide Bay Trials too!

BE SAFE BE RESPONSIBLE BE AN ACTIVE LEARNER

Our Key Priorities in 2020 are:

To develop precision of meaning through deliberate choices of vocabulary in writing.

Our School’s Attendance Goal for Each Day is 95%.

PLEASE HELP US MAKE EVERY DAY COUNT

Dear Parents, Carers, Guardians and Community members,

Another term is underway at Cooyar State School and I would like to take this opportunity to welcome everyone back and thank you for continuing to follow our school entry, drop-off and pick-up guidelines. I look forward to another wonderful term filled with inclusion, fun and education. School Camp Helper The year 5 and 6 students are going on camp from the 17th – 21st August and need a parent helper. If you would like to express your interest please let Mrs. Sloss or Mr. Willis know. Attendance If you know your child is going to be away from school in advance for appointments or illness, please notify the school via Facebook, KIT book or phone. Signing In If you are entering the school grounds please remember to sign in. Yours in Education Scott Willis

Upcoming Date Claimers

Ekka Show Holiday Monday August 10

Year 5 & 6

Cairns Camp 17th – 21st August

Playgroup 8:30am – 10:30am

WEEK 3 Tuesday 28th July

Shape

WEEK 4 Monday 3rd August

Jungle

WEEK 5

Tuesday 11th August Under the Sea

WEEK 6

Tuesday 18th August In the Sky

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The Cooyar Chronicle Term 1 Week 4,

2019 The Cooyar Chronicle Term 3 Week 2 , 2020

Welcome back everyone to Term 3! We have had an exciting start to the term with a new student to welcome to our classroom. It is lovely to see a new face in our small room and now we have two students in each grade, so welcome Brock. In English, students are exploring a book series written by Anthony Browne, which they create a new character to add to the story and then conduct an interview. We have been learning about open and closed questions and watched an interview to develop skills in this area. Students are practising how to project their voice and add expression to their public speaking voice. In Maths, students in Prep have been learning about addition and will complete assessments in this area. Year 1 students are learning how to skip count in 2’s and 5’s and work with numbers to 100. Year 2 students have been working with fractions and finding fractions of shapes and collections. They explore halves, quarters and eighths. Science has begun and the topic is materials. Students will work with a number of different materials and describe their properties and the best fit to create objects. HASS this term will focus on life in the past and our connections to the past. Preps are investigating families, Year 1 and Year 2 students are time travelling and looking at how daily life has changed over time. On Friday we began a technology unit on puppets, which has thrilled some preps. Students will design and create their own puppets and we will work towards developing a show! Have a great fortnight!

Tania Duncombe Week 3 Maths

Prep Number and Place Value Lesson 9: Investigating connections between quantities (MTGI) Lesson 10: Investigating connections between quantities (MTGI) Lesson 11:Exploring part-whole relationships Lesson 12: Representing addition as combining parts of a whole

Year 1 Measurement Lesson 9: Partitioning two digit numbers Lesson 10: Exploring part-part-whole relationships in addition Lesson 11: Rearranging parts for addition Lesson 12: Adding single digit and two digit numbers

Year 2 Measurement Lesson 8: Recalling the addition facts Lesson 9: Using the inverse relationship Lesson 10: Applying the Associative principle to addition Lesson 11: Adding and subtracting with two-digit numbers

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Week 3 Science Prep Lesson 3: Exploring materials and their properties — Exploring hats

Use their senses to identify observable properties of materials

Year 1 Lesson 3: Investigating physically changing materials — Investigating strength

Understand that some materials can be physically changed to make them stronger.

Year 2 Lesson 3: Investigating materials — Investigating the strength of common materials

Understand that materials can be tested for strength.

Week 3 HASS Prep Lesson 3: My family history - Origins of family members

Understand where people in their family were born and raised.

Year 1 Lesson 3: My life in the past - Sequencing time

Understand different stages of human life and how to sequence human life stages on a timeline.

Year 2 Lesson 3: Technology over time — Changes to technologies used at home

Understand that some aspects of technologies used at home have changed over time, while other aspects have stayed the same.

Understand that changes to technologies have impacted the way people complete household tasks.

Week 3 English Interactions Lesson 9:Building meaning of characters and events

Compare images in the different texts read and the meaning they provide to words.

Explore the way images represent the interactions between characters.

Build literal and inferred meaning and write responses

Use context, text structures and language features to build literal and inferred meaning about the plot, setting and characters.

Discuss the human experiences that the author has expressed by creating animal characters with language and images.

Write responses, focusing on using common vowel, consonant diagraphs and common consonant blends in spelling.

Lesson 10: Engaging in conversations Explore different interactions

Review different interactions that ask for information, make offers and give commands.

View examples of interviews with authors and examine interaction skills, including:

facial expressions and gestures

speaking skills, such as volume and pace

listening skills, such as turn-taking, active listening, showing interest, contributing ideas and asking questions.

Engage in discussions about preferences

Write questions to find out a person’s preference for a picture book, character or author covered in the unit.

Engage in discussions and conversations, expressing preferences and practising using speaking and listening skills.

Lesson 11: Interacting in interviews Develop characters

Develop animal characters that could feature in the picture book, using drawing and writing.

Spell words that describe and represent characters, by drawing on knowledge of phonemes, common consonant blends, digraphs and vowel digraphs.

Discuss how authors create characters

Answer questions about the way language and images are used to create the character.

Use text structures and language features to make presentations and deliver this information.

Use interaction skills, including:

facial expressions and gestures

speaking skills, such as volume and pace

listening skills, such as turn-taking, active listening, showing interest, contributing ideas and asking questions.

Lesson 12: Interacting in different contexts – Focus texts – Willy the wimp, Willy the champ. Willy and Hugh Listen to a reading of a picture book

Listen to a reading of a different picture book, from a series of stories that feature animal characters that express human experiences.

Review all picture books from this series.

Explore vocabulary used in everyday and school contexts

Explore the vocabulary used to represent the interactions between characters in the text.

Compare vocabulary used in informal situations (such as interacting with friends) and formal situations (such as interacting in a formal interview and in presentations to the class).

Explore the vocabulary used to address different characters and people in different situations.

Practise using different terms of address and vocabulary in different every day and school contexts, including recreating and role-playing

interactions between characters.

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Don’t forget the 2020 Premier's Reading Challenge!

This challenge is not a competition but aims to improve literacy and encourage children to read widely for pleasure and learning.

Children and students who complete the challenge will have their efforts recognised through the receipt of a Certificate of Achievement signed by the Premier of

Queensland.

Please make a list of all the books you have read over the last term and hand it to Mrs Spencer. Prep – Year 4 need to read 20 books, Year 5-6 need to read 15

books. The challenge ends in 4 weeks.

For further information visit the Premier's Reading Challenge website.

WIN FOR YOURSELF AND THE SCHOOL!

Share your thoughts on some books you have read.

QSuper is a supporter the Premier’s Reading Challenge in 2020 and have a fantastic opportunity for two

schools to win a full day visit from author, Brian Falkner, to be held in Term 4.

There are also eight $500 book voucher prizes to be won.

Major Prize – Win a full day visit from author Brian Falkner

An award-winning author, Brian has had nineteen books published internationally. He is also an

internationally acclaimed writing coach, holding workshops and writing camps around Australia, New

Zealand and the USA.

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To enter, simply list your top five favourite books and why

you like them.

Competition closes 28 August, 2020.

Complete the entry form herere: https://qsuper.qld.gov.au/campaign/prc2020

http://education.qld.gov.au/schools/readingchallenge/index.html

https://qsuper.qld.gov.au/campaign/prc2020

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From the Middle Room

Students have been working hard on their English unit on Historical Narratives. This is a short unit focusing on text comprehension and historical narrative writing and presentation. Our spelling is undergoing a trial period of change to ensure our spelling lessons each week are challenging for every student. This means homework may seem a bit unorganised for a little while, however I am hopeful I can find a workable method. If you have any problems please let me know. In Maths both year levels have been looking at money and working with 4 and 5 digit numbers. Year 4 have also looked at the various types of symmetry. For Science this term Year 3 students are looking at Heat Transfer and the different types of heat produced. We will be doing an experiment shortly that will require each student (year 4 included) to have a small box such as a shoebox. If you have one available it would be wonderful if you could send it in to school. Year 4 are looking at Forces and will be working towards making a game involving different forces. HASS for both classes has started with us looking at mapping methods (but with slightly different reasoning).

Week 3 Science Prep Lesson 3: Exploring materials and their properties — Exploring hats

Use their senses to identify observable properties of materials

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Middle Room work for the next two weeks:

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ENGLISH

3/4 Language in literary recounts

Analysing language and speech in a

literary historical description

Writing historical events from

someone's perspective

Writing a recount in the first person

Preparation for spoken presentations /

Spoken presentation

Examining assessment task and model response

Researching ideas for spoken presentation

Writing script

SPELLING

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Graphemes: p pp; r rr wr Blends: spl, spr; thr, spl, spr, scr, str, shr Focus Concepts: Adding ed, Adding ing, Adding s or es, Past tense, Prefixes: up, pre, re (BLMs P5–7), Antonyms, Synonyms

Graphemes: ar a Patterns: art, ark, ast, arge, ass Extra graphemes: are, half, laugh, heart Focus Concepts: Adding s or es, Alphabetical order, Rhyming, Antonyms

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Graphemes: p pp; r rr wr Blends: pl, pr, spr, spl; scr, str, shr, thr Focus Concepts: Comparison, Homophones, Prefixes, Antonyms

Graphemes: ar a Patterns: ard, arp, alf, ass, ast, alm, ark, art, ath, eart, aft Extra graphemes: half, aunty, heart Focus Concepts: Adding s to f or fe, Alphabetical order, Rhyming, Antonyms

MATHS

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Fractions and decimals

Representing and comparing unit

fractions

Using symbols to represent fractions

(shapes)

Using symbols to represent fractions

(collections)

Number and place value

Representing multiplication

Connecting multiplication and division

Assessing student learning

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Number and place value

Applying place value when

multiplying

Applying place value to division

Calculating multiplication

Fractions and decimals

Partitioning to investigate fractions

Converting fractions

Investigating equivalent fractions

Applying fractional knowledge to solve problems

SCIENCE

3 Defining heat

Measuring heat

Measuring changes in temperature

Producing heat

Exploring ways of making heat

Heating water

Heating up

4 Exploring forces

Mighty magnetism

Magnetism In the real world

Exploring forces

Pulling force of Earth

Investigating forces acting on falling objects

HASS

3 Representing places

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

Country and Place

Grid references and the Torres Strait

Representing places

Australia's major human and natural features

4 Investigating environments

Understanding grid references

Using scale

Investigating environments

Vegetation and the environment

Animals and the environment

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Senior Room News

Welcome to the year 5 and six part of the newsletter, we missed you! This week students in the senior room have been devising their new learning goals. These goals will assist students with staying focused on their areas for improvement. Coupling their goals with our new education program Education Perfect the sky is the limit with these students.

Maths This Fortnight Year 5 – This fortnight in maths year 5 have been focusing on fractions of a quantity as well as adding and subtracting mixed and improper fractions. By time you are reading this they will have also have completed their co-ordinates unit where they where required to define ordered pairs on a numeric and alphanumeric grid.

Week 3 Week 4

Monday Year 5 Mixed fractions

Year 5 GST and Budget Creating a savings plan

Tuesday Year 5 Monitoring Task

Year 5 Income and expenditure… What are they?

Wednesday Year 5 Monitoring Budget Task

Year 5 Mobile phone plan

Thursday Year 5 Financial plan/budgeting

Year 5 How much for lunch?

Friday Consolidation Consolidation

Year 6 – The year six students have been introduced to reverse integers and cartesian planes. This has proved no challenge to them and they where eager to learn more! We have now shifted out gaze to percentage discounts and multiple digit multiplication. All of these components will be required for their up and coming assessment.

Week 3 Week 4

Monday 2 digit written word problems Sheet to print Extended multiplication

Calculating volume

Tuesday Calculate division using a written strategy. Solving equations

The Cubic Metre

Wednesday Division with decimals Fraction assessment

Thursday Division of decimals Revise integers

Friday Consolidation Consolidation

English This Fornight Students have started deconstructing two famous Australian poems: The man from Ironbark and Waltzing Matilda. In the coming fortnight we will compare these two poems and attempt to turn them into a narrative.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Week 3 Reviewing similarities and differences

What does multimodal mean?

Creating a climax and resolution in a

narrative

Review assessment criteria Working on Assessment

Week 4 Preparing a multimodal narrative

Interpreting a narrative poem

Working on Assessment Developing

effective characters

Senior HASS and Science This term HASS and Science will be closely related as we look at natural disasters and the manner in which they occur. We will also be exploring the Queensland map and the Cairns region in preparation for the school trip. Feel free to draw your child's attention to any news stories that showcase a natural disaster anywhere in the world.

Yours in Education, Scott Willis and Carmon Sloss

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Soup Friday

Close to the end of last term, I sent home a note asking for donated ingredients for soup. As always our Cooyar community responded generously. Thank you to everyone who sent in soup ingredients. We had some nice warm cups of soup and were even treated to some freshly baked focaccia bread to accompany it. Thank you Jacinta - not only was the smell inviting from the beginning of the day but it was delicious reheated for lunch! The children have been keen helpers in the kitchen and enjoy tasting the fruits of their efforts.

Tomato Relish and Green Tomato Pickle

Last Friday, we used the produce from our well-tended garden (thank you Chole!) to make a two and a half kilo batch of Tomato Relish and a small batch of Green Tomato Pickle. This time the Gibson family brought in the produce of their garden to supplement the school tomatoes and we did make a very tasty bright red Tomato Relish ready for tasting this week. Thank you to the Dowling family who donated onions and Sharon who not only donated onions but was then called on late in the afternoon to bring in some more jars! She promptly obliged AND then did the big pots wash up which saved the children and the teacher! Thank you Sharon. I was impressed with our students' efforts who worked diligently in the kitchen and then willingly tasted the result at the end. Many hadn't had Relish before.

Carmon Sloss

Please note the change of day for Playgroup in Week 4.

Playgroup will be held Monday 3rd August,

8:30am – 10:30am for Week 4 only.

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