Recent News and Important Information. 

We are nearly at the end of Term 1 and I have been impressed with how the children have settled into their learning and routines. The Literacy Block is going well, the children are making tremendous progress with their spellings and vocabulary and they have produced some interesting pieces of narrative and persuasive writing. It is extremely important that all children are encouraged to produce work of the highest standard in all learning areas, including homework. Thank you to those families who have supported this during Term 1. I look forward to seeing High levels of work and commitment continue in Term 2. 

Parent Information Evening
I look forward to speaking to Parents on Tuesday 8th April from 11.45 onwards during Parent interviews. Please be advised that lessons will finish at this time and children need to be collected from class. I will be sending your interview time home on Wednesday 2nd April. This will be a great opportunity for us to discuss your child's behaviour and learning. I will be sending the Test Folders home on Friday. Please spend time having a look at the work completed and return them to school on Tuesday 8th ready for the information evening. Thank you. See you then. 

Holiday Project
Room 9 have been set a mini project to complete which is due in the first week back after the holidays. They have been asked to choose a City/Town where they have lived, travelled to or would like to travel to. They need to inform the class of this City, including location on a map, traditions, customs, famous landmarks, history, food eaten, famous people from there, music or art created there. There are many items that the children could inform us about and they can do this in different ways. This could be a powerpoint, display board, poster, booklet or movie, they could use music, books, videos or pictures to show. I look forward to learning about Cities from around the world. We will be inviting the parents after the holidays. Good Luck!

Rooms 9 and 16 Class Assembly

Beauty Contest In Fruit And Veg Land 

 Congratulations to Room 9 and Room 16 for their wonderful performance during assembly last week. The children had worked hard preaparing costumes, props and lines. The message was very clear to all. Don't judge a book by it's cover! 

On 21st March Room 9 and Room 16 had their assembly. Amelia from Room 16 was the compere, Mr Peel. There were judges, narrators and contestants. The story told everybody that it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside but it's what you are like as a person on the inside that matters. We finished the play with a song about vegetables. we had a great time. 
 Dillon, Cathy, Doyle and Abigale

Harmony Day

Room 9 celebrated Harmony Day 2014 in style. Many countries were represented at Wattle Grove on Thursday and all students and staff looked fabulous. It was wonderful to see the variety of traditional costumes worn from around the world. The children of Room 9 experienced music, art, history and foods from a variety of countries. They took part in learning about flags, traditional clothing and traditions from many cultures and made traditional Native American dream catchers. The best part of the morning was experiencing a slice of Italy by making home made pizzas. It was a great way to see where ingredients originated from. The children loved making them but more importantly enjoyed eating them! Harmony Day was a huge success. Thank you to all the parents who supported the day by helping your child dress up for the special occasion. 

Class Buddies

On Tuesday we chose our buddies from Room 4. We did some activities about Harmony Day with our buddies. We had our hands painted red and our buddies hands were painted yellow. We then put our hands on a piece of A3 paper. We mixed our hands together to make orange, the Harmony Day colours. We watched the photo's from last year and got ideas what to wear. We played on the playground with our buddies just to have FUN! We really look foward to see our buddies again. By Alyssa and Dillon

King Of Literacy

During our Literacy Block rotations Mrs McIlwraith expects us to work hard and to produce the best work we can. She is our Queen who cannot be disturbed when her group is reading! We now want to welcome our King, Mr Meachem. The King comes in to help us work every Tuesday. He is on the look out for children who complete tasks neatly and quietly. We hope you like his crown.

Harmony Day

Come and celebrate Harmony Day on Thursday 20th March. Harmony Day is a celebration of all cultures, religions and beliefs. It is a day of cultural respect for everyone who calls Australia home.
Come dressed in your traditional costume or wear the Harmony Day colours of orange.
There will be a flag parade from 9am in the undercover area.
Look forward to seeing you there!
Mrs McIlwraith

Room 9 is a place where we work hard, play fairly with our peers and respect each other. This means we are able to have fun!

Science Investigation. 

Room 9 have been trying to find out how celery absorbs water and where does it travel? We decided that food colouring in water would be the best way to help us see what happens clearly. 

See our photos of the groups carrying out their investigation:

Room 9 and 16 Class Assembly Please come along to see our assembly on Friday 21st March. We will be performing a play about '2014 Beauty Contest In Fruit And Veg Land'. See if you can learn what the moral to our story is!

Welcome to Room 9
We want to welcome you to our Blog site. You will be able to find out what is going on in the classroom, view work that the children have created and see photos of the class enjoying their learning!

Cathy and Owen enjoying exploring seeds during science!