Once they had finished at the Education centre, they were able to have a look around all the parks animals, birds and reptiles.
The students enjoyed their visit to the Fauna Park on Monday learning about Minibeasts at their Education centre. Minibeasts are small animals that do not have an internal skeleton. They are scientifically known as invertebrates. They live all around us in a multitude of habitats, even in our yards and in our homes. There are more invertebrates on earth than any other type of animal. Another popular name for invertebrates is bugs. These are the invertebrates we encounter quite frequently. The major groups are insects (including flies, beetles, butterflies and ants), arachnids (including spiders, scorpions and harvestmen), crustaceans (including pillbugs and slaters), myriapods (centipedes and millipedes), and gastropods (snails and slugs). Most of these have hard outer skeletons (exoskeletons) and moult them off in order to grow. The gastropods have soft bodies and grow gradually more like we do. Many of these fascinating animals are easy to keep as pets or in the classroom or at home.
Once they had finished at the Education centre, they were able to have a look around all the parks animals, birds and reptiles.
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August 19-25, 2023
Children's Book Week is an annual event in Australia that celebrates books and Australian authors and illustrators. The theme for Book Week 2023 is "Read, Grow, Inspire". Students came dressed up as their favourite book characters and participated in class activities. Winners: The Bean Bags. Losers: The Blue, Tiger, Sainters.
Thank you to all who supported our fundraising Trivia night held at the Merrigum Golf Club on Friday 18th August, it was a very successful night. Thank you to the Merrigum Golf Club for the use of the Clubroom and running the bar. We would like to thank Dale for being our fantastic Trivia master. Our sponsors. Active Energy Solar Kyabram. Ky Bearings. Better Home Living. H & G Realestate Kyabram. Tatura (Milk) ‘A Bega Company'. Let’s plant a tree for every child and enjoy watching the trees grow as our children grow!
One Tree Per Child Program and great outcomes have been celebrated from the project each year. Although called One Tree Per Child, the species planted under the project in Greater Shepparton include indigenous trees, shrubs, groundcovers and grasses that have largely been cleared from our region. Each year the Greater Shepparton City Council facilitates a native plant to be planted for each child (person aged under 18 years). Kylie Greater Shepparton City Council Environment Officer came and spoke to the students of the loss of indigenous plants over time. The students got to plant some native plants in our environmental native corner and will be able to care for them and watch them grow. Thank you, Kylie, for taking the time to organise the plants, stakes and guards for our planting afternoon. No more playground loneliness with this inclusive buddy bench. Designed to encourage inclusiveness and nurturing behaviours, if a student is sitting alone on the bench, it is a silent sign they’re feeling alone or may have been bullied and are needing support from fellow students. On Saturday the 12th of August at the Merrigum Lions Club change over dinner, held at the Merrigum Golf Club the Lions Club presented a buddy bench to our school. We would like to thank them for their generous donation of this brightly coloured bench, as we will be put to good use and the kids will love it. For the Foundation - 2 Language Experience was a celebration! We celebrated 100 days at school! The theme was ‘we are 100 days brighter’ students were encouraged to wear bright colours.
The goal of celebrating 100 days of school is to reinforce reading, writing, and, most importantly, math skills they have learned. Kids expect to count to 100 many times on the 100th day of school. Instead of being boring and repeating the same daily routines, engage kids with lots of different activities and ways to count to 100. Our thanks to John and Fiona from Land Care and Allison from River Connect in Shepparton, who visited us last Friday afternoon. John brought a collection of insects and spiders from his garden. We held larvae and cockroaches, inspected silky spider nests and centipedes, and Jade and Alfred even let a very sociable huntsman spider run up and down their arms!
Then Allison produced some water from the Shepparton Lake and let us loose to explore. We found water boatmen and damselfly nymphs and all sorts of other tiny creatures. This was a highly engaging, hands-on session and a great support for our current learning about minibeasts. We’re looking forward to having Allison back to do some Nature Journaling with grades 3-5 next week. |
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