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media type="custom" key="5688683"  TERM 3

Welcome back to Term 3. It has been a busy term already and it is only 4 weeks into the term. So far the whole school has been on an excursion to see the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in Shepparton. The Grade 5/6 children are in Melbourne on camp and on Thursday the Grade 3-6 children are attending a performace by McGuire Secondary College.

We have a new duck in the dam and lots of the students have enjoyed making cubbies outside.

Welcome to Mr Steer who is replacing Mr Newman while he is on Long Service Leave.

Welcome back to Term 2.

Please click on photos to view a slide show of Grade P/1/2/3 making Anzac Biscuits. There should also be photos of our grade working, playing an EQ Game called Dead Ants and of the Athletic Sports. If not please check back shortly! Please click on the Student News button for our Student's of the Week. We wish everyone a very Happy Easter. media type="custom" key="5654601" Our grade is made up of 16 children. We give a big welcome to Kelsey, Gypsy and Nathan in Grade One and our new Preps: Les, Summer Smith, Summer Savige, Cheyanne, Parris, Tiarrah, James and Brodie. A big welcome back to Kamali, Triphet, Logan, Benjamin and Zac.

The children have received their take home book covers and books. Please find the time to hear your child read nightly as this will be of great benefit to them. The children choose a book out of their book box to bring home and this is entered into their reading log. We read every morning at school from 9 to 9.25. The children have received a red Library bag to bring their take home books back and forward to school. Please feel free to come to school and hear your child and other children read. It would be a great help to myself, Carly and our ESO’s, Brenda Gaal and Emma McLean. At school children read at an Instructional level where they are involved in Guided Reading and other Learning Centre activities. At home children should read stories that are two levels below their instructional level. This is to help ensure the children gain confidence, fluency and to enjoy reading. EQ stands for Emotional Intelligence. At Mooroopna North Primary School we follow EQ. We try and make STRONG CHOICES about our work in the classroom and outside and when we are playing at Recess and Lunchtime. Bringing a book home and reading it each week night is the required homework for children in Grades P-1. There will be occasions when children are assigned a special homework task that is related to their classroom work. The children have discussed and formed their own classroom expectations. The consequences are consistent throughout the school. Please discuss these expectations and consequences with your child/ren. These are the magic 100 words, which now extend to the 200 most frequently used words. The words are grouped into levels, with each level having a different colour. Some Learning Centres in the Literacy Block are MIOOW activities and the children’s spelling words come from these //Magic Words.// Each child in Grade Prep and One will be given a coloured chart to bring home so they can practise reading and spelling the words. When they are confidently and fluently reading all the words they will progress to the next level. Please note that children progress through these levels throughout the three years in Grade P/1/2. The children will find some charts easier than others and progress at different rates on the different levels. The children are allowed to bring their drink bottles inside during the day. However, to avoid sticky situations could you please ensure there is only water in the drink bottles. Each day at 10am the children stop for a Fruit Break. Please pack a piece of fruit for your child to eat at this time. The school presently has apples donated by a local orchard. In grade P/1/2/3 we have a number of soft toys which we send home each night in a bag along with a writing book. The children’s task is to write about what they do with this toy at home. Each bag has coloured pencils and crayons and multiple word charts. There are two books- one for Grade P/1 and one for Grade 2/3 in each bag. We have specialist teachers for Art, Library and PE.
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 * WHAT IS EQ? **
 * HOMEWORK: **
 * CLASSROOM EXPECTATIONS AND CONSEQUENCES: **
 * MIOOW WORDS: **
 * DRINK BOTTLES: **
 * FRUIT BREAK: **
 * SOFT TOYS: **
 * SPECIALIST TEACHERS: **


 * ** Subject ** || ** Library ** || ** Art ** || ** PE ** ||
 * ** Day ** || Every second Monday afternoon || Every second Tuesday || Every Friday morning ||
 * ** Time ** || 1.45 to 2.45pm || 11.30am to 12.30pm || 10.30 to 11.30am. ||
 * ** Teacher ** || Mrs Chris Hartley || Ms Sue Cowan || Mr Marc Lawless ||
 * ** What each child needs to participate. ** || Children require their Library Bag as they are not allowed to borrow without it. There is a tub in the classroom where the children can put their bag. || Children require their Art Smock. There is a shelf in the classroom for the children to put their Art Smocks. || Children require their school hat to participate. ||

Class work is centred on a particular theme. The theme for this term is Transport.
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As part of our morning routine the children will be participating in the daily THRASS program. THRASS stands for the **T**eaching of **H**andwriting, **R**eading and **S**pelling **S**kills. It is a program for teaching children about the letters, speech sounds and spelling choices of English. The children are using special charts with all the speech sounds and spelling choices on them. They listen to a CD with musical raps of the alphabet.
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Every second Tuesday the oldest child in the family brings home the newsletter. On occasions there will be a P/1notes sent home where every child will receive a note. Please encourage your child/ren to place their notes and/or bus money in the boxes that come around every morning.
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