Friday, August 24, 2018

THE GREAT BOOK SWAP

Yesterday students brought books to school they wanted to trade at the first Wattle Grove Great Book Swap. They received a trading slip for each of those books and later traded them for books they selected as each year level came through to choose their books. Later they could also purchase any remaining books with a gold coin. This was very successful and well supported by the students. We will be holding further events in the future.

Book Week Parade and Buddy Activities.

This week we celebrated Book Week. Our class walked around with Buddy Class Room Five. After the parade we came together to work on some Literacy based activities. We participated in a Scavenger Hunt. We read books together to find specific vocabulary and information about the author that was inside the books. The next activity was to draw each other in our costumes.

Term Three Student Reps

Congratulations to Haziq, Muzafer, Hikmat, Caitlin and Chloe who have been elected as Student Representatives for Term Three.

 Senior Assembly Week Five Term Three.

Congratulations to Manual, Hikmat, Tatiana and Kate for receiving an award at the Senior Assembly. Congratulations to Sabbir and Emily for receiving Literacy Pro Awards.

Principal’s Challenge.

Congratulations to Room 27 for winning the Term Two Principal’s Challenge. Well done to Maunil for achieving 100% in the test. Mrs Queiros and I are very proud of Room 27’s achievement. The goal is now to win back to back challenges.

Senior Assembly

Congratulations to Anya, Charlotte, George and Maunil for receiving Merit Awards at the last Senior Assembly. Our class won the Art Award for our brilliant Impressionist paintings of a landscape, inspired by Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly Series. Maunil achieved his Gold Literacy Pro Award, Muzafer received his Bronze Award, Joash and Haziq received their Blue Awards.

Super Scientists

We held the Year Six Super Scientist Final. Well done to Elice, Sabbir and Jarni for qualifying for the final. Sabbir’s experiment was Elephant’s toothpaste, Elice’s experiment was Egg Shell Crystals and Jarni conducted an experiment on Iron Oxide Slime. Toby from Room 11 managed to win through to the Whole School Final.

Winter Interschool Carnival.

Wattle Grove competed in the Darling Range Learning Community Winter Carnival . The Netball A team won their division. The Netball B Division finished Runners-Up. The Netball B2 Team played very well. Thank you to Mrs Queiros, Mrs Oliver and Miss Preston for coaching the teams. Thank you to Mrs Forrest and Mrs Innes for organising the lunches for the netball carnival. The AFL team placed third in their division . We would like to thank the Forrestfield Football Club for hosting the day and organising the lunches for the soccer and the AFL. Thank you to Mr Cannon for coaching the team. The Soccer Carnival was held at Hartfield Park. Thank you to Mr Sanderson for running the carnival. We appreciated Mr Meachem and Mr Teale coaching the teams. The Soccer B team placed third and the Soccer A team won their division. Thank you to all of the parents who supported the teams.

Our visit to the Perth Zoo.

On Wednesday 23^rd May, Rooms 27, 11 and 22 went to the Perth Zoo to learn about animal? adaptations. When we arrived, we split up into our classes and went in opposite directions.  First we visited the African Savannah with Mr Sanderson’s class and looked at the African Painted Dogs, Rhinos, Giraffes, Zebras and many more. Then we split from Mr Sanderson’s class and went to the Nocturnal House. There we were able to see frogs, snakes, bats and owls.

Straight after the Nocturnal house, we met with a tour guide to learn about Asian Rainforest animals and their adaptations. We were split into three groups to go and find some information about the Gibbon Monkey, Sun Bear and the Sumatran Tiger. We discovered that in the morning, the female Gibbons make a loud noise to tell the other animals that it is their territory. The Sun Bear has a long tongue to eat honey from the high bee hives. The Sumatran Tiger has webbed feet because it helps them to swim after their prey.

After we finished that tour, we went to see the elephants. When we arrived, the zoo keeper was in the enclosure giving them commands to kick a yoga ball between each other. He also got them one of the elephants to water the plants with her trunk.

After lunch, we headed off once again, this time to view the animals in the reptile house. There were snakes and blue-tongued lizard and many more. When we looked at the blue-tongued lizard you could hardly see it because it had buried itself in the sand.

Then we quickly rushed to the penguin enclosure. Many of the penguins were swimming right up to the glass and some were just floating on their backs. We walked back to the meeting point and lined up behind the other Year Six classes. Then we walked to the bus and the driver drove us back to school. Throughout the day, all of the classes were required to fill out a work sheet about animals, their scientific names, where it is found, diet, adaptations and conservation status.

We would like to thank Mrs Querios and Mrs Williams for helping out. We really appreciated the help that all of the parents gave. We would not have been able to go unless they gave up their time to come and supervise us.

By Elice and Emily