Welcome to our week 10 Newsletter

Hi Carrum families,

We can't believe there is only one week left! How exciting, but also sad.
In our last few exciting weeks we have many things still to enjoy.

Last Thursday we had an open afternoon to showcase our learning, thanks to our families and other classes for visiting.

Last week our marine ambassadors were lucky enough to swim with some dolphins and see some seals and had a great day out.

We know the 1\2s enjoyed their mini beast incursion learning all about creatures and more. 
Our school also had an environment day that Ruby in year 6 organised for the whole school with different activities and prizes. Thanks to the leaders that worked hard wih her on this day

For an end of year celebration the year 5\6s  and their teachers went to the gravity zone which was so much fun! 

On Thursday we had an amazing Christmas concert and a big thank you to Miss Chivotti for all her hard work arranging that for us! The Christmas songs were spectactular!

Next Wednesday the year 6s also have their bike ride to Bicentennial park.

On Monday the 15th of December its' the grade 6 graduation which will be a sad but an exciting night for our year six parents and families.

It's so exciting that there is only one week left of school!! Soon the year sixes will be off to their high schools! How crazy is that? We know you will miss us!

This is also our last newsletter piece for the year, we hope you have enjoyed reading our front pages.

What type of photos do elf's take?

Elfies!

Cienna and Mason your vice school captains


Have a great week

From your Captains Mason and Cienna

Lately in ¾, during Maths we have been learning column subtraction. We learn how to do column subtraction with internal zeros. We also have been learning how to measure things, people and estimating. Now moving on to Inquiry, we are learning about stories of our past , highwaymen and learning about the Aboriginal culture. Words such as Wominjeka (welcome), Urdlu (kangaroo) and so much more. We recently have been learning about the first fleet, they traveled for 8 months straight with people such as officers, sailors, soldiers and convicts who are kept in tight squishy cages. Now let’s get into Writing. In the past couple of weeks we have been writing persuasive texts, with the 5Es and in these texts there are exaggeration, rhetorical questions and emotive language!  

Moving on to specialists, let’s start off with P.E. In P.E the last couple of weeks we have done multi sports. In multi sports there are soccer, basketball, netball and team tag that we all enjoy. Let's head over to Art, recently we have been doing some Australian bird drawings and a 3D sculpture. Ni hou, we are in Mandarin right now doing some of our best birthday invite cards and of course we are not sending these, it's just a fun project. We watched the magic paintbrush. It's an excellent video about a boy who had a dream of being a painter. “Action!” We are in STEAM now, making a stop motion of some dream time stories. Here are some Dreamtime stories…

• How the Kookaburra got it’s laugh 
• The Wombat and Kangaroo 
• Rainbow serpent 
• How the Birds got it’s colours      

Thankyou, 

From Taylor and Eden (3/4D).

Interviewed by Mason and Cienna

An Interview with Mrs Murray
What is your favourite sports team? If no team your favourite sport
I barrack for Hawthorn
What is your favourite colour?
My favourite colour is pink
What do you like to do in your spare time?
See my friends, read, walk my dog and go shopping
What is your favourite food or cuisine you like to eat?
I like ice cream
Have you got any pets? If not what would you like to choose
I have a dog, a Golden Retriever Ivy and a ragdoll cat called Lottie
How long have you been at Carrum P.S?
Just this year, so 5 months
What is your favourite grade to teach?
Prep
What would be your ideal holiday destination?
Canada

                               

Carrum Primary are involved in cleaning up pur beautiful beach.
We would like to ask for volunteers for our Beach Patrol coming up on Saturday 14th March at 9am. 

Hope to see you there. Miss Derix and team

Thanks to our amazing volunteers from our previous sessions, we couldn't do it without you!

Local Community Events, things to try and Sports Clubs