1 to 1 Computing Program Roll Out

Many students who have signed up for the 1 to 1 computing program in year 3/4 would have received their laptop yesterday and today. Some students who were picked up by their parents or carers after school were able to take the laptops with them. Please read and discuss our MacBook Air Start Guide with your child at home. Students who have not yet received their laptops will do so this week.

We ask the students to place the laptops in the case provided, and place this in their school bag when moving between school and home. Students must place their laptops in the secure storage in the Media Room in the morning and at all times when not in use.

Students are allowed to take their laptops to OHSC, however, they must remain in their school bag and placed in an allocated area. Please check with Mandy if you are unsure regarding this matter. 1 to 1 laptops are not to be used at any time in OHSC.

Whole School Welcome Picnic

Families of our school community are all invited to our annual Welcome Picnic on the 16th February from 6pm. This will be a great opportunity for the staff members and other families to meet you and get to know you better. Bring a plate of something yummy to eat! Looking forward to seeing you there! (Location of the picnic TBA).

Welcome and welcome back!

We would like to welcome our grade 3s and their families to our neighbourhood. It has been lovely to have conversations with some of the new students and their carers in the first week and we are looking forward to getting to know you better this term. We would also like to welcome back our grade 4s to the neighbourhood and look forward to furthering our learning this year.

This blog is a portal where we communicate to our community about our learning within Neighbourhood 2. It will be updated by our team throughout the year. It is also the place where you can find out about how the neighbourhood works, check the weekly timetable, the learning agreement documents and the upcoming events. We hope that you will return to this blog often to catch up on developments in our neighbourhood.

If you have any queries about the blog or anything else abut the neighbourhood, feel free to approach us before or after school.

Thank You!

We would like to send out a big thank you to our parent reps Maria and Nerida for all the organisation of of school and neighbouhood events this year, especially The Bazaar.

We would also like to thank all the parents who helped out in the neighbourhood in various ways, including with Master Chef, 3/4 camp, the No Dig Garden and coming in to support during our learning showcases.

We wish you all a safe and happy holiday.

The 3/4 Neighbourhood Team (Mary, Janette, Jessica, Emma & Delia)

3/4 N2 End of Year Picnic

Date: Thursday 22nd December, 2011
Time: 2pm (straight after school finishes)
Where: Princes Park, near the adventure playground (Crn Princes Park Drive & Macpherson Street)

Some families may like to bring a small plate of food to share. Please bring your own drinks.

If it is raining at 2.30pm, please assume the picnic is cancelled as there is no shelter.

Some other Neighbourhoods will be having their picnics at the same venue at the same time.

Your parent reps,

Maria & Nerida

Transition

Transition: We all experience it!

The whole school community including children, parents and staff are experiencing the transition of children from one year level to another.

To familiarise themselves with new home groups and neighbourhoods the children will partake in 4 transition sessions. Three will take place on 5^th, 6^th, 7^th December from 10am to 11:15. The children will spend time in their 2012 neighbourhoods with their team of teachers and groups. They will familiarise themselves with the new learning spaces, discuss learning possibilities and partake in learning agreement activities with all of their 2012 teachers.  Older children will be mentoring and offering advice to the younger ones. The children will have lunch in their new spaces as part of each session. The aim is to make all children feel comfortable, confident and excited about their next year level. Consistency in learning across the school aims to make this a seamless process.

On Tuesday 20^th December there will be a fourth transition session where the children will be introduced to their 2012 home teacher as well as working in their new neighbourhoods for 1 hour. This will take place from 2.30 to 3.30. The children will be dismissed from their new neighbourhoods on this day.

This period of change is both challenging and exciting in which children and families adjust to expectations, interactions and relationships.

Rita Jokubaitis

Student Pathways and Transitions.

Arrays: What can we use them for?

During the math workshops on Thursday and Friday our neighbourhood began using square tiles to find the area of a variety of regular and irregular shapes. We began by exploring areas by covering them with the 2 centimetre squared tiles. The children realised that they would have insufficient tiles to cover the areas, and then faced with the problem of how to measure the area without covering the whole space with tiles. Muna, Viarne, Lilli, Sascha and Payam were the first to realise that they could use their knowledge of arrays to find the area of a rectangle. This discussion began when Viarne asked the question, “Why do we need all the squares?’  The group shared their new found knowledge with the neighbourhood. A small group then found the area of the tables in the performance area. The group revealed to the class that it would take 2,542 tiles to cover the table. Harvey then quickly worked out that the area of the table is 5,084 centimetres squared.   

 Many strategies were discussed,  then trialled and generalisations were beginning formulated.

                                                 Viarne, Payam, Lilli, Sascha and Muna's Array

Measuring the Area of the Performance Table