Term 4, Week 3

Hey everyone,

Hope you're having a great weekend! See you all during the week...

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

CALENDAR ART

Please click the following link to check out your child's calendar art for 2022. The piece was titled 'Sunset Silhouette'. 

CALENDAR ART LINK

SWIMMING TIME TRIALS

On Tuesday, the Year four, Five and Six classes will be travelling to Busselton for the Swimming Time Trials in preparation for the Swimming Carnival on Friday in Week 4 (4th Nov). 

Please ensure that your child has the following items (in a separate backpack if possible):

1. 
   Water bottle
2. Morning tea and 'Crunch and Sip' (lunch will be back at school)
3. Hat
4. Bathers
5. Towel
6. Rashie
7. Sunscreen (sensitive skin) class teachers will have normal sunscreen at the pool
8. Flip flops (otherwise shoes will need to be worn)

The buses are scheduled to leave OLC at 08:45am, so please factor this into your morning leave time on the day. 

NOVEL STUDY BOOK CLUB

Book Club will begin this week, with all students receiving a new novel to read for the next 5
weeks. 

Every Monday morning, each child will receive a weekly schedule via One Note - Reading Group Folder. 

It would be great if you could have a look at the schedule each week and have your child explain to you what they are required to do to be ready for the 'Book Club Meeting' on Friday morning.

As part of their weekly reading log for the next 5 weeks, your child will have to read aloud to a member of the family to have one of the logs signed off on (I appreciate your support with this). This would be a great opportunity to have your child give a brief summary (retell the main events) on what has been happening in the story so far.

Below are the different roles that your child will focus on over the next 5 weeks. Please note, that they only focus on 1 role each week - you can find their role for the week in the weekly schedule.

The Summariser will summarise one of the chapters that they read for the week. They will focus on the 'who, what, where, when and why' to help them retell the main events.

The Director will compose four questions to discuss during the Book Club Meeting. These questions will use ideas from the novel but can only be answered using their own personal experiences.

The Word Finder will find a minimum of five interesting or unusual words from the text. They then use these words to complete a dictionary meaning, the sentence that the word was in and another sentence using the word in the same context.

The Illustrator will create an illustration from a scene in the book. There objective is to use as much detail and colour as possible so that their group members can pick the scene without reading the caption.

The Connector will try and make a 'text to text', a 'text to self' and a 'text to world' connection from the required pages for that week. The most important part of making a connection is writing down how that connection helps you create a deeper understand of the novel. This could include a deeper understanding of the setting or the character's feelings.

Congratulations to James Hotait, Harper Brierty and Jack Rowe you have received a merit award over the last couple of weeks. Well done boys!

Enjoy the rest of the week!

Until next time,

Mr Jones