Dear Families and Friends

This week we celebrate and recognise what it means to be Under 8!

The theme this year is “Play-You, Me and our Communities.

What a fabulous theme for this year’s event!! After the last few years communities have been hit hard but it is so rewarding to see Community events, in particular Dayboro events, bouncing back like Dayboro Day, Dayboro Rodeo, Dayboro show and of course our Under 8’s event.  We take great pride in our links with the community and we are so fortunate to have many facets of our community involved in our Under 8’s celebration- our local kindies, our police and emergency services, the Scouts,  ocal high schools and many more help out on the day.

It takes a village working together to create curious, civic-minded, caring, engaged and successful learners for life. How lucky are we in Dayboro to be able to work together and wrap our support as a community around our learners.

Under 8’s Day this week will be celebrated at Dayboro State School on Friday May 19th. See details below. Parents and friends of our younger children in P-2 are invited to come along and celebrate with us! Many thanks to our hardworking P-2 team who have organised this event!

Precision in Teaching and Learning, Deepening our Clarity

In my regular visits to classes this term, I have been delighted to talk with students who have been working so hard on their goals in  English for Term 2. They have all spoken so clearly to me about their next steps and goals in each of their writing tasks.  They can clearly articulate what they need to work on to improve their writing. This term, P-2 classes have been looking at Narratives and in particular exploring, what makes stories interesting- characters, events, settings, plot etc.

Some responses have been:

Prep: Retelling a favourite story

PJ Rose- We are learning how to retell a story. We are retelling Goldilocks and the 3 Bears. I know what happened and all the characters and parts of the story.

Year 1: Character Descriptions

1T Clare- We are learning how to describe the Bad Seed. It is the main character. I’m using adjectives to describe how the character is at the start.

1D Sienna-I’m learning how to use describing words to make the characters more funny. I need to think about how the character changes at the end of the story.

Year 2: Comparing the same characters in different versions of a story and expressing a preference.

Theodore 2B- I’m learning about how to compare 2 similar characters and state which one I like best. I’m comparing the original wolf from Little Red Riding Hood with a good wolf from another story. I know I’m going well because I can compare what they did in each story. Their actions tell me a lot.

Francesca 2C- I’m learning about comparing the wolf characters in Little Red Riding Hood and in Big Bad Wolf. I am going good because I can easily identify differences in their qualities for example- one is horrible, one is kind hearted. I can talk about their actions too. I need to be more careful about choosing the right describing words.

Cash 1/2A- I am learning how to add more details about characters when I am comparing qualities that are the same and different.  I chose the Healthy Goldilocks as my preferred character because she was a good character.

 I love to ask these 5 questions about their learning

*What are you learning?

*How are you going?

*How do you know?

*How can you improve?

*Where do you go for help?

These are also great questions for parents to ask their children about their learning and help prompt conversations about learning at school.

Thank you to all the hard-working volunteers who organised, supervised, categorised, labelled, designed and sold the Mother’s Day gifts at the Mother’s Day stall. What an amazing effort and so wonderful to see the excited looks on all the children’s faces as they attended.

Thought for the week!

Thank you from Mrs Ryan

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