2CK's Tooth Fairies

Presenting 2CK's Tooth Fairies for your enjoyment.

2010 Premier's Reading Challenge

 A record-breaking 180,142 students in over 2,000 schools met the Challenge in 2009! Congratulations to the students 

and thanks to the parents,

teachers, 

public and teacher-librarians 

who helped them discover books and complete records.

Your school is automatically registered when one of your students enters a book read on his/her online reading record.  (We are registered and on our way!!)

There will be randomly selected early bird rewards for students 

who start their reading records in March.

Congratulations to our representative swimmers

CONGRATULATIONS to Kiahni , Kelsey , Julia and Zoe  who represented Sandy Beach PS @Zone Swimming.

All girls swam a personal BEST!!!which is FANTASTIC!!

Kiahni also did well representing our school in 10 yr girl butterfly event.

Wallwisher

Wallwisher is an Internet application that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily.

How do I post on the wall?
Double click anywhere on the wall, buddy..!
Please join in the fun.
As the wall is moderated your post will not appear immediately.
Cheers
:-)


Welcome to our first wallwisher. Why don't you post something to it?

Congratulations to all the Aussie students who participated. Australian students scored very well!!

World Maths Day is all over!

Congratulations on a new World Record!

1,133,246 students and 56,082 schools from 235 countries have united to set a new world record by correctly answering 479,732,613 questions.

The validation process for the winners in each category, and the leading countries – results are posted @ http://www.worldmathsday.com/2010/Default.aspx

2011 will be even bigger with World Maths Day becoming part of the

The World Education Games.

Everyone is invited to unite the world in learning!

Result summary:

Ages 5-8 section:

An Australian student in the top 10- Aiden who played 500 games with a score of 28114

Ages 9-13 section:
Australian students were in the top 3 places. Cool calculating!

Kaya G from Southport School Australia, who played 500 games and came 1^st!! with 43007 points

Caleb L from The Australian International School United Arab Emirates played 500 games and came 2^nd  with 35235 points

              

Brody H Team Australia played 500 games and came 3^rd with 32507 points

Ages 14-18 section:

 Australian students were in the top 2 places. Fantastic!

2010 Tooth Fairy has a message for you

Click on the play button to hear the Tooth Fairy message.

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2010 World Maths Day practice time!! Be ready for March 3!! next Wednesday.

Students go to World Maths Day 2010
Click on Sign In - yellow box on the top right and then
use their individual log ons that they were given by their teacher.

Have fun competing against other kids from around the world.
Games are 60 secs long so:
take a deep breath before you start..
make sure you are comfortable....
Go!!

2010 Tooth Tally Project reveals many teeth are being lost.

1-O Tooth Fairies 2010
1-2C Tooth Fairies 2010

 1M presents their 2010 Tooth Fairy

Here are some of our kids that have lost teeth

since school began this year:

2010 Tooth Tally Fun has begun!! The 2010 description has been revealed.

Students listened to this description and then drew what they though this years' fairy would look like from that description.

The Tooth Fairy likes to wear green from the very top of her head to the very tips of her toes. It is green like growing grass.

Sometimes, instead of her beautiful sparkly gown, she wears trousers so that she can fly from house to house in the twinkling of an eye.

As children dream, they may hear the tiny sound of the tinkling bell on the tip of her cap as she quietly visits them.

Share our drawings of the 2010 tooth fairy from 1-2 C.

LIBRARY NEWS

Welcome to another fine year of learning in 2010! Our library is open Monday – Friday this year from 8.30 am parents are very welcome to come to the library with their children and read a story. This is a lovely, relaxing way to start the day.

LIBRARY LESSONS:

Mon     Tues     Wed   Thurs    Fri
 
3E         6M        KG


3H         6I         KS       4C         5A


2CK     K/1O    1M     4/5TC  1/2C

Students who can read well, have a chance to do well in all other areas they explore. They are not held back and frustrated because they can’t understand and interpret information.

Parents play a vital role in the education of their child. At Sandy Beach Public School (SBPS), we believe that a strong and supportive partnership between home and school improves children’s learning capabilities.


As parents/carers you can help them in many ways.


1.Read to them for fun – enjoy. Even just 10 minutes per school day = 50 minutes per week = 200 minutes per month = 2400 minutes per year. See it will add up!!!!!!! Does reading a bedtime story to your children every night really make that much difference?


YOU BET IT DOES! The research proves it!


This habit should start in a child’s first year of life, and continue throughout childhood. Even some children in Years 4, 5 & 6 enjoy it. Perhaps by then they will be the ones reading to their parents.


2. Encourage your children to read. 10 minutes per day = 2400 minutes per year, BUT 30 minutes per day = 7200 minutes per year!!! Imagine how well they would be reading by the end of the year!

3. Borrow regularly from libraries, including our school library.


4. Be involved in their schooling. Research shows that children, whose parents/carers are part of the team teaching and guiding them, do much better at school than others.

HELPERS
We value our wonderful helpers and would encourage more helpers to join the ranks because it helps free us to offer more services to the students and staff.


If you can help with library duties (either at home or at school) please fill out the form at the end of this newsletter and ask your child to return it to the library.

  Please visit OUR SCHOOL BLOGS regularly:

SBPS Latest happenings


Mrs. Nay’s Internet Library Branch


Parents-partners in teaching and learning

Parents may also be interested in our other blog: These are a few of my favourite web2.0 things


Remember: “Kids who read, succeed”


Cheers :-)  Mrs. Nay,  Teacher – Librarian

Interested in finding out more about the MySchool website?

Go to my Parents- Partners in learning blog

Try Sweet Search

SweetSearch, a Search Engine for Students, searches only 35,000 Web sites that have been approved by our staff. SweetSearch allows students to choose the most relevant result from a list of credible results, without the distraction of unreliable sites.

    Every Web site in SweetSearch has been evaluated by our research experts.

      Visit our Web Links for teachers and students, organized by subject and academic level.

Return to School + Snack Shack News

2010 – Thursday 28th January – students Years 1 – 6 return to classes.

Tuesday 2nd February – Kindergarten students commence.

 Snack Shack

Next year the canteen will be open five days a week from week 2.

However, it will not be open during the first two days – Thursday 28th and Friday 29th January, 2010.

 

Bring your own lunch for Thursday and Friday of the first week.

Kathy Pfitzner – Organiser

Have you lost your newsletter? Need some information about school events?

 SANDY BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWSLETTER is available online each week. 

The latest newsletter December 8, 2009

You can access it by going to the SANDY BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOL website  
and then clicking on the NEWSLETTERS tab. 

You can then access any of the newsletters by their date-Term by Term!!

Holiday activities- Library Summer Reading Clubs are great and FREE!!

Image by bowmanlibrary via Flickr

Don't forget to check out:

Coffs Harbour City Library Summer Reading Club

Year 6 Assembly and Farewell

To all Year 6,
I wish you all the very best for the years ahead. Enjoy High School and take up as many of the opportunities it offers you as you can. 

I'd like to share this little message from a past year 12 Woopi High student after leaving school and returning for a visit a year later:
Oh, wow..I wish I was back at school...they were the best days!!!

I hope that you will say the same thing when you look back on your experience.

Enjoy having your friends around you, lots of free time and plenty of great opportunities to learn about the world you live in,  life and living happily!! 

Cheers :-)     Mrs Nay

Free Christmas Online Games for kids.

Free Christmas Online Games

for kids of all ages.

To all of our wonderful volunteers at school-Thank you!!!.

Thank you to all of you for giving your time

 to help SBPS students.

We do appreciate it.

Coffs Harbour City Library announcesChildren's Summer Reading Club 2009 - 2010

The Summer Reading Club is happening at the Library these summer holidays, 'READ on the Wild Side' has loads of activities that will engage young people of all ages in reading and sharing books, games, craft and storytelling from 7th December through to the 21st January and it's all free!

To take part in the 'READ on the Wild Side' Summer Reading Club all you need to do is:-

Be a member of the library, ie have your own library card.

                                 Be a student aged 5 or over

                                 Register, and collect your Summer Reading Club Kit from Coffs Harbour,   Toormina or Woolgoolga libraries.

Kits are available from MONDAY 7 DECEMBER 2009

Then read, read, read! 

Read 5 books (or more!) and record them on your reading sheet.

Write a review or draw a picture about a book you have read.

Answer the cowboy's question that you will find in your Summer Reading Club Kit.

Bring your reading sheet, review / drawing and the answer to your question into the library by Saturday 16th January to receive your 

Reading Club Certificate.

The first 100 Summer Reading Club members to do so can also pick up a ticket to the

Wild West Party and Sausage Sizzle,

Thursday 21 January 2010 at "high noon"

 Come dressed as your favourite Wild West character

 Be at the party to have the chance to win "Lucky Draw" prizes!

 For any enquiries, please contact Judy at Coffs Harbour Library - tel: 66484905

Coffs Harbour City Library offers you an invitation to a free family event.

FREE FAMILY EVENT

Coffs Harbour City Library

Xmas Card Craft

Cards to make –

To keep or to give to friends

Saturday 12th December 2009

Coffs Harbour City Library

Anytime between 10.00am - 12.00noon

No need to book

For more information phone Judy on 6648 4905

www.coffsharbour.nsw.gov.au/citylibrary