Onesies, Twosies and more!

On Tuesday the 3rd of June, our Junior School Council reps organised a successful PJ day for our whole school to participate!  Money raised was donated to the Salvation Army, who are going to use it for supplying blankets for the homeless.
We were given the opportunity to purchase a BIG M and a donut on the day which was delicious!
When roaming our school, there were students in onesies, twosies, ugg boots, slippers, dressing gowns and boxers! (Some kids even had bed hair!!)
Overall, it was the most comfiest day at school of the year!

Let's learn about emus!

As 'citizen scientists', HLG spent some part of their week at Serendip Sanctuary creating informative documentaries on our native animal - the emu!  What an interesting creature!  Our movies were made with IMovie on our new IPads and will be on display during the student learning conferences.  For now, here's a sneak peak of some finished products! 

Education Week: "Scientists do AMAZING things!"

With the topic of EDUCATION WEEK being about science, what better opportunity is there to do some science experiments!?

This week we've turned our building into a science lab and we've seen pepper run away, made oobleck jiggle and we've even watched Frankensteins hand rise! 

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Kinder visits!

Recently, students in our 5/6 building put on their walking shoes and visited local kindergartens!  For some, it was a blast from the past to visit their old kinder and in some cases, see their past teacher!!

Students interacted with the younger kids and together read books, played games, did puzzles and drew pictures.

 

We'd love to see some of the smiling kinder students join Lara Primary School in Prep next year!

HLG @ Serendip

We love when it's our turn to visit our classroom down at Serendip!  Each day we have taken a packed lunch, snacks, walking shoes and our hats, to make our way down to Serendip Sanctuary.
The week at Serendip for every class is jam packed with a mixture of environmental and ICT studies and is ALWAYS a highlight!! 

For HLG, our week so far has seen us interact with the rangers, take water samples from Hovell's Creek and run some tests on it back at Serendip.  We've learnt about the 'ecolinc' app on the IPads, being 'citizen scientists' for the ecolinc specialists.  This means, we collected bird data from Serendip and submitted it online.

We've also learnt how to use IMovie on the IPad, creating movies on 'emus', which could potentially be used for an up and coming Serendip app that is currently in the making!

For our Year Sixes, this is the last time they will visit our Serendip classroom (as an LPS  student) and boy will they miss it!

The ANZAC spirit

On the 25th of April, Australia remembered the sacrifice of service men and women by taking part in marches throughout the country.
In the lead up to ANZAC day, the students in our learning group building captured the ANZAC spirit by taking part in a variety of activities. 
The week saw some of us wearing ANZAC badges, writing about soldiers at war and paying our respect via a one minute silence.  We had a guest speaker visit us (thanks Deb!), accessed ANZAC websites to complete history tasks and read stories of war such as 'Simpson and his Donkey'.
In addition to this, 50 lucky students went to Melbourne to visit the Shrine of Remembrance, whilst others displayed their cooking skills by baking ANZAC biscuits - boy did our building smell delicious!

Lest We Forget.

Mum, Deb Robinson, taught us about Lara's 'Avenue of Honour' and showed us how to map our ANZACs on our netbooks

The uniform of our diggers and nurses at war

Real war medals!

 

Front row whilst visiting the Shrine!

Our 'Shrine-ing STARS!'



Blake, Declan, Cam and Lara show team work whilst baking ANZAC biscuits

Mmmmm, the finished product!

HAPPY EASTER!

Happy Easter from the Learning Group building! 
We hope everyone is enjoying their Term 1 holidays and with Easter just around the corner, indulging in a chocolate egg (or two!) as well.

Hello Mr. E.Bunny, welcome to our building :)

Cameron and his buddy creating Easter cards!