Parent interviews have been held over the last two weeks with all parents attending or being contacted by phone.
The purpose of these interviews is to fill parents in on the progress made by their child and the main focus for the year.
Well done, Orange 7! Altogether,you scored 42129 points in the World Maths Day competition!
High scores were Brandon – 5006, Giselle -4300, Caleb -4128 and Mikayla – 3007. The top three students will receive Gold Awards for obtaining over 4000 individual points.
The students worked very hard in the Computer Lab, classroom and at home to obtain this result. They played against students in the 9 -13 year age group from countries such as:-
Malaysia, Hong Kong, UAE, Japan, India, UK, Germany, Turkey, Guatemala, Estonia, New Zealand, USA, Qatar, Pakistan and also Australia, including Albany Creek State School!
1133246 students from 56082 schools in 235 countries took part. Everyone is much faster with Number Facts! Interesting exercise!
Orange 7 class has a running total of 33411 points so far in the World Maths Challenge. That means that as a class, we have answered 33411 questions correctly. Keep going! Well done!
Our student with the highest number of personal points is Brandon with over 3500 correct questions.
36000 with 14 hours to the finish!
Orange 7 is involved in the World Maths Day for 2010 whereby each student logs in to the World Maths Day site and completes as many games as they can over a 48 hour period of time.
Students have improved their speed with Mathematical facts and really look forward to the next game with student participants from over the world.
A graph shows the progress of the game and the names of students, schools and countries against which they are competing. Good luck to everyone!
It has been a busy start to the new school year for Orange 7. Yes, only one year left before they head off to high school!
The main units for the year have been introduced:-
SOSE – Our Place In The World
HPE – Media and Messages
SCIENCE – An Interest In The Future
TECHNOLOGY – Creating A Business
Other activities are:-
VOLLEYBALL CUP – Friday, August 27 at Craigslea State High School.
READING -Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park
WRITING -The Narrative using Figures of Speech which were learnt last year.
DRAMA and THE ARTS – The Puppeteers
HPE -The World Game
SPELLING – Weekly tests
MATHS – Maths Challenge, Problem Solving, Designing a Cross Country Course.
It should be a great year!
Thanks to the P and C for our air conditioned classroom! It is fantastic!
All students from Orange 6/7 are invited to participate in the Creative Communities special performance on Friday, 19 June. The students will perform their Dance routines from last Thursday, namely Contemporary, Hip Hop, Cheerleading and a War Cry. They performed with great enthusiasm on Thursday, and this will offer parents an opportunity to view the performance if you missed out due to other commitments last week. Please remind students to return all permission notes asap.
This term, Orange 6 is studying Democracy and we are looking at events which helped shape democracy in Australia. The main focus will be a study of the Eureka Stockade and the culmination of the unit will be a ‘Living Museum’ where the students will form groups and perform part of the Eureka story. Groups will also ‘live ‘ in a miner’s tent for the day.
Orange 6-7 will be performing their Dance segments on Gathering on Thursday, 4th June. We are covering four Dance-Movements:- Contemporary, Hip Hop- Rap, Cheerleading and a War Cry. All parents are most welcome to come and see part of our Health- PE and Arts program.
A huge congratulations to Sullivan who has been crowned the Year 6 Champion speller, after correctly spelling 25 difficult words and a tie break of another 7. Well done! Good luck now for the big challenge against Mr Campbell and 2 of the teaching staff. We had a good class result of a 92% average for the Spellathon based on 4 different Spelling lists, including extension lists. All that is left is to collect the money for your efforts.
Students of Orange 6 had a very successful day at the end of Term 1 with their Survival Day based on the book, “Hatchet” by Gary Paulsen. I had been reading the book to the class during Term 1with the children demanding to hear the end of the book in the final stages. It is a book which is the first in a series and is based on many real life experiences by the author. He is a Canadian author who has even participated in the Iditarod dog sled race 3 times! I am presently reading the sequel to the class – “Hatchet, The Return”. It was a great team effort by everyone on the day in the making of shelters and other items associated with the book. One of the best comments came from one of the boys at the start of the day… “Mrs Bourke, these are the days that we will remember!” It doesn’t get better than that!
