Wow, what a wonderful day! Yesterday
was such a special day for everyone at Sandy Beach Public School as we
celebrated our Book Fair and Book Character Parade.
Firstly, a big thank you goes to all the parents and caregivers who supported their children with making a monster for our competition, preparing costumes, attending the parade, supporting the sausage sizzle and shopping at the book fair.
It
was fantastic to see how many children entered the ‘Monster’competition
bringing along so many original and creative ideas. It was a very difficult
decision to judge the winners as they all deserved to win. Congratulations to
all children who entered, and to the winners of this competition.
Our book fair
was very successful and we are sure your children will enjoy the purchases they
made as they practice the most important skill of reading.
Due to your support
and the commission we received from Scholastic, SBPS can now add lots of new
books to our collection. We sold $6047 worth of books earning us $2116 worth of
books to choose from Scholastic. Thank you so much to our parent helpers at the
book fair. Your efforts were much appreciated.
The book character parade was a huge success once again. There were
some fantastic costumes representing many different book characters and
Monsters.
Congratulations to everyone for all your efforts, an outstanding job!
Please visit the SBPS home
page and SBPS Facebook page to see more fabulous photos.
This week in their technology lesson Kinders viewed the ebook "Messy Mia & the tale of ancient tech." via Airserve onto our interactive tv. How things have changed!
Half of the class then had a turn on an iPad listening & interacting with the story at their own pace, followed by some mini games and the other half had a turn on our computers creating a robot.
This week some of the students used our iPads to create a personal Christmas postcards using Cuteshot- an ios app that is free for the basics.
After downloading CuteShot you get 6 basic albums: Christmas, Fun, Valentine Day, Love, Birthday and Halloween with more than 60 free postcards.
They were able to choose one of the ten Christmas postcards to create their own one.
Today we had a policeman come to our school and talk to our students in years 3 - 6 about bike safety,
stranger danger
and the dangers of drugs.
There are Bike Safety resources to share with your children and or class at http://audreynay.weebly.com/bike-safety.html
We want all of our kids to be safe on the road..
Watch the video above to see some year 5 students share what prizes you might win for participating in the wheelathon or the highest wheelathon sponsorship.
Do your bit to provide rice to the hungry. Free Rice - Practice math, geography, grammar, and vocabulary while fighting world hunger at the same time! What is free rice all about? Can I make a difference with such a small contribution? Do the hungry really get rice from my online activities? VIsit http://audreynay.weebly.com/freerice-help-feed-the-worlds-hungry.html to find out. Visit your local library either physically or virtually:
and don't forget to visit Tumblebooks for a great selection of online books to read-for FREE!
(thanks to Coffs City Library who pay for the subscription)
Try some of these suggestions:
vPlay outdoor ball games like soccer, netball, handball, footy, basketball and volleyball.
vMake up a concert and perform it for the family.
vAttend free entertainment at your local Shopping Centres.
vVisit the library.
vDownload an ebook to read.
vPlay hopscotch.
vPlay the Wii
vPlay computer games –including free rice and help feed the hungry
vWatch a DVD. (borrow one for free from your library)
vCreate a nature collage day – use leaves, tree bark, sand or soil to create a picture. The kids can collect all the bits and pieces in a bucket. Create an area outside for them to glue their nature collages together.
vPlay celebrity head.
vWrite or make a book about your favourite person or animal..
vRetell your favourite superhero story
vVisit a second hand shop like Vinnies and buy some dress-ups
vAttend the free Kids Workshops at Bunnings and create something
vBuild a tent out of old sheets
vPlay with your lego
vMake movies/videos on the iPad or computer.
vTake photos and print them out.
vTake photos and create a photo collage.
vVisit a beach and collect shells
vGo skating (or scooting)
vWatch a great kids movie at the cinema
vMake road signs and traffic lights from cardboard boxesà Paint the boxes or cover in wrapping paperà Create a cardboard box city.
vPlay musical chairs.
vBe a weed detective- locate all the weeds in your garden and banish them
vMake your own musical instruments
vTry some Science experiments
vRead one of your library books
vMake home made pizzas.
vBlow bubbles.
vColour in. (very trendy)
vPlay board games.
vMake play dough.
vCreate an interesting figure with your playdough
vMake wind chimes (from tin cans) or a fruit loop necklace.
The New South Wales Department of Education & Communities has offered its students the ability to download some key software to support the NSW DEC BYOD policy. This software has been made available to all school students. This software includes Microsoft Office 2013 and Adobe Creative Suite 6.
Parents will need to work with their students to download this software.
Students need to go through their Student portal.
All of our students (except kinders) can show you how to get to their portal
To get to their student portal at home it would help if they start with the Sandy Beach Public School Home Page. Students then go to the Our Learning Centres tab.
Students can then click on the student portal link and follow the instructions in the video.
Unfortunately Microsoft Office Picture Manager does not come with 2013 but you can access it by following the instructions at
