Below is the link to a website with lots of books on numerous topics ( Animals, Plants and Food, Technology, Family and many others).

We hope you’ll find your home language.

Happy reading!

http://uniteforliteracy.com

Last week, Dev, Yuvraj and Duy ( yr 1)  looked at the structure of a sentence but in a more fun way.

First, they had to work out how puzzle bits go together.

Yuvraj is starting to see a pattern: the red colour writing ( the doer) always  goes at the beginning!

Next lesson: naming and identifying the different parts of a sentence: the doer( noun), the verb ( the action) as well as linking sentences with conjunctions.

Many thanks to Miss Nery for choreographing the yr 6/7 girls in recognition of the Refugee Day ( June 20). The dance was performed at last week’s assembly.  The girls managed to capture the drama of those who take to the dangerous seas in search of a safer life.  Here is a shorter version of their dance.

Original music here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf-bH-aaLB4

We asked the students who did they think the refugees were and if they would  welcome them to Australia. Here are some of their answers.

Hiep, Year 2

Thalia, Yr 5/6 SM

Lilian, Yr 5/6 SP

Ke Yu, Yr 2 G

Shantana, Yr 2

Follow the link to access the popular picture book, ” The brothers quibble” online

http://www.sbs.com.au/radio/simultaneousstorytime

Audio books are also available in:

• Arabic
• Cantonese
• English
• Filipino
• French
• German
• Greek
• Hindi
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Mandarin
• Persian-farsi
• Punjabi
• Spanish
• Vietnamese
• Woiwurrung language spoken by Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation, Central Victoria

Oral language is very important when it comes to success in literacy. Some students in Miss Carey’s and Miss Canala’s class have been working on their receptive and expressive language skills. They took turns describing a picture to their partner without showing the image! Here are the results!

The Reception classes have been planting peas!

We looked at some of the scientific language involved

e.g. stem, roots, leaves, shoot, growth, germination ………….

Zaatari is a refugee camp in Syria which was opened in 2012 to accommodate those feeling the ongoing civil war in Syria.

Here are some pictures of the children in Zaatari.