CLASS SPOTLIGHT!

This Week in 3Gr... This week in 3GR, we have been learning the writing strategy ‘Show, Don’t Tell’. This is a technique

that writers use to create a clear picture in the reader’s mind. It makes the story much more interesting and allows the reader to fully understand how a character feels. On Thursday, we wrote how our

characters were feeling.

Parent Homework: Can you identify how our characters are feeling?

Authors Can you identify how our characters are feeling?

Caius He pumped his fist in the air and cheered. He had a big smile on his face. He is feeling _______________.

Lucas B, Lucas N and Max

His body was shaking and his heart was beating fast. He was feeling _____________.

Timothy, Ethan and KyKy

‘If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times’ said Ray and he put his hands on his face. Ray was feeling _____________.

Phoebe and Jamiee

Mum put her hands on her hips and yelled at the girls. Mum was feeling ______________.

Aurora, Emma, Heidi and Trynettee

They couldn’t stop bouncing up and down. They couldn’t stand still. They talked very quickly. They had smiles on their faces. They were feeling _________________.

Isla and Allana Her eyes widened and her body shook. She slowly walked backwards. She didn’t know what to do. She was feeling _____________.

Zavier The boy was wide-mouthed and wide-eyed. He was feeling _____________.

John, Malakai, Blade and Trae

Her eyes filled with tears. She was feeling _____________. He fell off the Adventure Playground. He began to cry. He was feeling

________________.

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

WHAT IS MINDFULNESS? Mindfulness is a whole body-mind state of awareness that involves ‘tuning in’ to the present moment, with openness and curiosity, instead of ‘tuning out’ from experience. Mindfulness is a state of being fully awake to life – being aware and undistracted in the present moment. Mindfulness can be developed through formal sitting meditation practices, or through informal everyday mind-fulness activities that use the senses to anchor the attention: such as mindful walking, listening to music, eating or conversation. Mindfulness is a clinically proven tool to support wellbeing and mental health by reducing stress and al-lowing life to be experienced more fully. Ellen Langer and team, a world-renowned mindfulness researcher found that children not only prefer to interact with mindful adults, but actually devalue themselves following interactions with mindless adults (Langer, Cohen & Djikic, 2010).

THE BENEFITS OF MINDFULNESS AND CHILDREN Research shows that mindfulness training increases connectivity in the frontal lobe of the brain, which is linked to improved attention, memory processing and decision making abilities. Mindfulness has been shown to improve empathy or the ability to understand what another person is thinking or feeling, which im-proves children’s awareness of others and helps them to build positive relation-ships.

MINDFULNESS AND CHILDHOOD MENTAL HEALTH Mindfulness training has been to shown to reduce the severity of depression, anxiety and ADHD in children. Mindfulness builds resilience by giving children skills to help them to cope better with stress, as well as engage more fully with themselves and the world.

MINDFULNESS FOR PARENTS The best thing parents can do to help their children become more mindful is to commit to some regular mindfulness practises themselves! The more present and mindful you are with your children, the more happy, mindful and resilient they will be. Mindfulness training can assist parents to remain in the present moment and engage more fully when interacting with their children. Research shows that parents and carers who practice being mindful around their children contribute to improving their child’s sense of self-worth and self-esteem. Dedicate a window of time each week to mindfully play with your child or children by doing such activities as mindful cooking, mindful dinner-time, even mindful teeth brushing!

Principal’s Message

IPSWICH NORTH

STATE SCHOOL 0 1 J U N E 2 0 1 8 T E R M 2 , W E E K 7

E A C H W E E K

MONDAY

Breakfast Club

Religious Instruction

TUESDAY

Breakfast Club

Instrumental Music

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast Club

Music

Health

THURSDAY

Breakfast Club

Tuckshop

PE

FRIDAY

Breakfast Club

Parade

Tuckshop

Interschool Sport

I M P O R T A N T

D A T E S

08 JUNE

Book Club Due!

21 JUNE

Sports Day

26 JUNE

Rewards Day!

29 JUNE

Last Day of Term 2

P A G E 2

OFFICE NEWS

Please remember to

contact the school

for ALL student

absences before

9:00am.

Ph: 3813 5801

E: absent@ipswich

northss.eq.edu.au

Receipting Days

Monday

Wednesday

Friday

Money must be

dropped into the

payment box on all

days.

Supermarket meltdowns? Fighting and aggression? Bedtime battles? Disobedience?

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Parents Stay Positive!

Reading allows children to actively engage their imagination and opens up a world of educational opportunities. I am delighted that Ipswich North students have the opportunity to join in the 2018 Premier’s Reading Challenge.

This year the Premier has challenged all state and non-state school students from Prep to Year 2 to read or experience 20 books, Years 3 and 4 to read 20 books and Year 5 to 9 to read 15 books. Last year an outstanding 156,000 students from 850 schools took part in the challenge reading a total of 2.19 million books! The reading period for the 2018 Premier’s Reading Challenge is now open and closes Friday 24th August. Every student who completes the challenge will receive a Certificate of Achievement signed by the Premier.

Premier’s Reading Challenge!

P A G E 3 T E R M 2 , W E E K 7

What’s Happening in 3Go? • Working hard on planning and writing narrative stories

• In maths we used playdough to help us show fractions of shapes and collections.

• Excited to move up PM levels we are halfway through and have seen some great im-

provements already!

• In Science, we started learning about heat. Many exciting experiments to come involving

porridge and a thermometer? (hmm sounds like a story we might know!)

CLASS SPOTLIGHT!

INSS Sports Houses With the Sports Carnival soon to be upon us, now is as good a time as ever to reflect on the fantastic

people that our school’s sports houses were named after!

FRENCH - named for John Alexander French who was an Australian Corporal that was awarded the

Victoria Cross for his heroic actions in World War II.

LAWSON - named for Henry Lawson who was a brilliant poet and short-story author, with amazing

works that include While the Billy Boils, Mateship and The Loaded Dog.

MONASH - named for Sir John Monash who commanded the Australian Forces in France during World

War I, before later becoming Chairman of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria!