Do your Kids Matter? Of course they do so please read and follow the link!

IMPORTANT NOTICE: KIDS MATTER PARENT SURVEY
KidsMatter is an Australian schools mental health initiative that aims to support the social and emotional wellbeing of your children. Queens Beach State School is implementing this framework over the next few months. To gather more information for this program, we invite you to go to the link below and click on START PARENT SURVEY. It won’t take up too much of your time and will help us in providing valuable information to make our school the best place it can possibly be for your children.
LINK:
http://www.kidsmatter.edu.au/primary/other-resources/school-surveys/parent-survey
Your assistance with this is greatly appreciated.

Four and half things for this week!

Dear Families,
Four and a half big things for you to know and act on this week:
1. Our Annual Queens Beach Fete is this Saturday and we need volunteers. Our class is running the Cent Sale and Mother’s / Chill Out Room. Please fill in the fete note being sent home today and return it before Friday. Cent Sale requires selling of tickets and Mother’s / Chill Out Room requires you to just make sure there are enough items such as tissues, paper towel, bin isn’t overflowing and of course having a little time to chill out there too.
2. I will be running a Homework Club for the rest of term beginning this week. Every Thursday after school until 3:30pm. So you can have your child stay and do their homework with me, then collect them at 3:30pm. Siblings are welcome as well and I can of course help them with their homework if you wish.
3. Family / Teacher catch up. Our school has Parent / Teacher meetings at the end of Term 3 however, if you have time for a catch up (face to face or phone) to talk about your child’s Semester 1 Report Card and our goals for them this Term, please call the school and book a time that suits you.
4. And a ½ Thank you for responding so positively to the 100 items challenge! Your belongings will be returned this week, if they haven’t already. Also we are still looking for volunteers in the classroom. Main times we require help are Tuesday afternoons with Computer Lab and Friday middle sessions with English groups. Babies and toddlers are welcome. Thank you to our awesome volunteer on Wednesday’s who is reading with your child each week.
Thank you,
Miss Richards

100 Days of School

Families,

What a wonderful, busy day we had! We discovered that we could count in tens to one hundred and in ones. We counted out one hundred fruit loops and made crowns with one hundred stickers. We made pictures of us being 100 years old and wrote our name as many times as we could in 100 seconds.

A busy day and we are very tired after 100 days of school. Have a big sleep tonight Prep R Rockstars! Thank you for bringing your collections of 100, they are super! See you on day 101!image image image

Parent / Grandparent Helpers

Hi Families,

I really appreciate any support you can offer your student and their classmates.  I am asking for parents and grandparents to volunteer some time to assist us in the classroom.  A note will be sent home very soon asking you to fill in what you are able to do and when.

Much appreciated,

Miss Richards

Rhyme Time

Families,

We are rhyming mad this Term!  Some online games that should work on smartphones, tablets/ipads and computers are below.  Click on a link below for a rhyming game.  Why is rhyme so important?  It is a basic foundation skill for spelling and reading!

http://pbskids.org/games/rhyming/

http://pbskids.org/wordworld/characters/game_frm.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/words/dg3.shtml

http://www.sproutonline.com/games/elmo-rhymes

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bll/reggie/

http://www.cookie.com/kids/games/rhyme-time.html

Computer Lab is So Fab!

Hi Everyone,

Every Tuesday we have our Computer Lab Session.  This term our goal is to be able to log on to the computer independently.  Below are a few websites that have games which teach you how to type.  (Adults can play too!!).  Just click on a link to play the games.

http://www.abcya.com/kids_typing_game.htm

http://typingclass.co.uk/learntotype.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/flash/stage1.shtml

http://www.e-learningforkids.org/computer-skills/lesson/keyboarding-skills/

Term Three – We have grown so much!

Hi Families,

What a wonderful day being back with Prep R! Almost everyone is back from holidays and all were happy to be at school, which if you recall is my first goal (your child loves school!). I found these great little tips for parents on Pinterest. They are from a teacher called Jodi Southard and she shared the colourful posters for free on her blog.  http://fun-in-first.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/tips-for-parentshow-to-help-my-child.html

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Welcome Back To Term 3

I hope everyone had a well-earned relaxing holiday and you are ready for our coming term. A few changes have happened over the holidays. Below is a sneak peak, see if you can guess what they are!  I can’t wait to see everyone on Monday! Enjoy the sunny weekend.image

Parent Workshops

Hi All,

Tomorrow and Thursday our Literacy Coach, Mrs Kylie Gummow is holding some Parent Workshops that you should all try to come to.  Tuesday’s session is about helping your child learn to read.  Thursday’s session is about our handwriting program, Casey the Caterpillar.  Children, toddlers, babies are all welcome too and if they are too distracting for you they can come and visit us in the classroom while you attend the session.  Both sessions begin at 8:45am.  See you there!

Thanks Miss Richards

 

***Update**** If you would like to attend a session in on these topics in the future contact me with a suggested time /day and we can organise another session.