Hot Cross Buns: Friday 1st April

This Friday we are having another cooking day in the Grade 1 Neighbourhood & Kitchen Area near Aftercare.

With the preparation of the dough, we think there will be 3 sessions: 10-11 am (making the dough); 12-1 (rolling the buns) pm and final cooking/eating session.

Please see your child/ren's homegroup teacher if you are able to assist during any of these sessions.

Thanks!

Premiers' Reading Challenge

Students who have returned their Premier Reading Challenge notice will be given their student log-ins and passwords later this week. The rules from the website are copied below and has more information to inform students and parents about the challenge. The Princes Hill Primary School library has Premiers' Reading Challenge books marked by stickers on the binding. These will be shown to students so that they more easily meet the challenge.

Challenge rules

1. You must register as a Challenger and keep a record of your reading on this website.
2. You must be a student in a year level from Prep to Year 10 in 2011. You can be learning at a school or learning at home.
3. You must read the following number of books during the Challenge:

Reading requirements for each year level

Year level	Number of books	Number from the Challenge book list
Prep	30 books	20 or more
Year 1	30 books	20 or more
Year 2	30 books	20 or more
Year 3	15 books	10 or more
Year 4	15 books	10 or more
Year 5	15 books	10 or more
Year 6	15 books	10 or more
Year 7	15 books	10 or more
Year 8	15 books	10 or more
Year 9	15 books	10 or more
Year 10	15 books	5 or more

4. If you are in Prep, Year 1 or Year 2 you can read books by yourself or with someone else, for example, a parent, teacher, brother or sister, classmate, buddy or friend. They can help you or read the book to you if you are just learning to read.
5. Your online books must be verified as read by a Coordinator in your school.
6. All your information must be completed online before 16 September 2011.

A list of book titles is available following the link below.

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/prc/books/default.htm

Grade 1 Neighbourhood Assembly

On Tuesday 29^th March, we will be sharing our learning during assembly. 

Students in 1E will be performing a short retelling of 'Stone Soup'. Most of the characters in this story are poor villagers or soldiers. It would be great if children could dress the part of their character or wear plain, neutral coloured clothes for their performance.    

We look forward to seeing you there.

Parent Helpers

Thank you to the parents who have already donated hats and fabric for our Home-Corner and Performing Arts area and have helped out in numerous ways assisting with the classroom program and with administrative tasks such as laminating and preparing classroom resources.   

A Calendar has been placed on the Community Noticeboard for Parent Helpers in both Play/Inquiry times (9:15- 10:30 Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays) and Literacy- Reading/Language experience (12:10 – 1:05 Mondays-Thursdays). The Friday after lunch session has been set aside for whole neighbourhood storytelling and we would love parents to come in and share their favourite books.

Play Inquiry & Learning Agreement Time

Students have recently selected a Play/Inquiry project that they will be working on.  Projects were decided based on students’ existing interests. These will be ongoing projects to develop students’ knowledge, skills and experiences while working with other students.  The goal of these projects will be for students to produce a story or narrative through their exploration in Play/Inquiry.  For example a project may develop through construction and building, by using a plan using a storyboard of sequenced events through their understanding of the narrative structure; conference with teachers to develop/refine ideas; explore and create each frame or set; photograph each scene they create; upload images; write the narrative to accompany the images.

In room 17 Sia is working with students to develop writing and art projects such as Puppet Making, Claymation, Book Making and ICT publishing.  Sheryal in the Taurus is working on Music, Performing Arts and Puppetry projects and Construction.  Elke is working in the outside area and in Room 17 on Science/Environmental projects using natural materials, Construction and storyboarding projects, and ICT (for research and creating stories). 

In Maths times, we have been exploring counting patterns, graphing and informal measurement. After lunch, Learning Agreement tasks will include Reading, Word Study and Handwriting.