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Press Release: 20 August 2021

  Wow! We cannot believe that we are halfway through this term! Time has flown by. Last term for NAIDOC Week, we did lots of activities with our buddies. We participated in a Yarning Circle with Mrs Beste, read Aboriginal stories to our buddies and we made boomerangs out of salt dough. Miss Balogh may not have put enough salt in the dough because we are still waiting for them to dry completely. We cannot wait for them to dry so we can paint them with our Year 1 Buddies.  The Student Representatives for Term 3 have been chosen and are doing a fabulous job with their new responsibilities. They had their first Student Council meeting on Tuesday, 10 August and had a blast.  In class, we have been learning how to program Makey-Makeys to do lots of different things like using play-dough, use the computer instead of the keyboard and mouse. We had the best time trying to play games and create music with the Makey-Makeys. This term we are designing

Seismographs

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In Week 6, Room 17 made seismographs !  They did such a fantastic job! Make sure you ask your student to explain how their seismograph can be used to measure an earthquake. 

Term 2 Week 4 - Room 17 News Update

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  Room 17 News Update Hi, we are the ‘Term 2 Press’ Eisha, Navshan and Riley. This past week, Room 11, 17 and 25 had an assembly about PEMDAS. For our WOW writing, our classes had written an ANZAC recount letter as if we were all soldiers who went to battle in Gallipoli during World War I. For our assembly, we wore 90’s grunge/hip-hop outfits. We practised for our assembly for only one week, but we had a lot of fun. Most of us had a part in the assembly, if we wanted one. We sang a rap about PEMDAS and it helped us learn more about the order of operations. P stands for parenthesis or brackets E stands for exponents or indices M stands for multiplication D stands for division A stands for addition S stands for subtraction If you want to listen to this rap, click this hyperlink. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzeDWFhYv3Ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzeDWFhYv3E   Since we are all Year sixes, this will be our last assembly that we can host , so whoever watched

Room 17 News Update

  Room 17 News Update Hi Readers   We are The Room 17 Press: Steven, Sienna and Shania and we are going to share about what has been happening in our class so far this term. In Maths, we have learned positive and negative integers, angles, Roman Numerals, Cartesian plane coordinates, composite and prime numbers. We have also been taking notes of different maths situations in our math books, e.g.: division rules, factors and multiples, squared numbers and triangular numbers, so we can review the information in the future. For our science lesson we have gone and looked up different types of emergency warning systems for information and use it for a project with our groups. We have been brainstorming ideas of all the natural disasters all over the world and how people can get a type of message that a disaster is going to happen. In writing we have been researching on a specific type of species of an Asian animal and we are going to write about it next week. For the past week w

Greetings 2021 Year 6s!

Welcome to Room 17!      This term has already started out quite interesting but that's not going to stop us from having an outstanding year! I look forward to getting to know each and everyone one of you this year. I cannot wait to get started! Up Coming Deadlines and Events: Student Representative Speeches take place Week 1. We will have time in class to work on it but you may wish to practise at home. Friday, 12 February will be the Student Representative Assembly, where the Term 1 Student Representatives will be selected. Friday, 12 February will also be our Aussie Day Celebration. Wear your favourite Aussie attire (no thongs and school appropriate). Bring a gold coin to help the Lord Mayor's Bushfire Appeal. Criteria 1 - 3 for your Citizenship Portfolio are due Thursday, 4 March 2020 (this can be handed in digitally or hard copy). There will be sufficient time provided in class, if you use your time wisely you shouldn't have any additional homework.