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This school is a Nut Free Zone. We have several children attending our school who have a life threatening allergy to nuts.
Thank you for your support.
12 Church Street , HAHNDORF, 5245. Ph: 8388 7058 Email: [email protected] Website: www.hahndorfps.sa.edu.au
MON 18/11/19 to WED 20/11/19 Book Fair
FRIDAY 22/11/19 Years 3 to 7 Rugby Clinics
FRIDAY 29/11/19 All library books due back 5.00 End of Year Picnic Assembly
TUESDAY 4/12/19 Rooms 5 & 6 Premier Night
FRIDAY 6/12/19 9.00 - 11.30 New Reception Transition 9.00 New Parent Information Session
WEDNESDAY 11/12/19 Rec to Year 7 Woodside Pool Fun Day 9.00 - 10.30 Pre-Entry Morning 2.30 Preschool Red Group Graduation
THURSDAY 12/12/19 7.00 Year 7 Graduation
FRIDAY 13/12/19 1.30 Preschool Blue Group Graduation 2.00 Preschool Dismissal 1.45 Farewell Assembly 2.15 School Dismissal
TERM 4 WEEK 5 14th November 2019
Bushfires and Your Child’s School or Preschool
A Guide for Families
Parents are
encouraged
to access a
brochure
which
provides
important
information
about what
our school/
preschool
will do on a
catastrophic
fire day or
in the event
of a fire.
Bushfires can occur at any time during
summer. It’s important that our families
understand our Site Emergency Plan, are
prepared and have a plan in place for their
family when these situations arise.
If there is a bushfire emergency while
children are onsite we will keep them safe until
the danger has cleared even if this is outside
of normal school hours.
For a copy of the brochure visit
www.decd.sa.gov.au and search
‘bushfire brochure’.
Have you heard of the word “array”? If no, I can guarantee that you see many arrays each day. An array is an arrangement of objects, pictures, or numbers in columns and rows. It is a visual representation of multiplication.
Look at the pictures . Do you want to count them all, or count one row and times by the number of columns? It is about working efficiently with numbers. This is multiplicative thinking.
Multiplicative thinking has been identified as one of the most important and also most difficult mathematical concepts for learners to develop. It is the transition from moving from addition to multiplication to solve problems. Multiplicative thinking is a prerequisite for the understanding of fractions, decimals, ratio and percentages.
Multiplicative thinking incorporates the capacity to work flexibly with the concepts, strategies and representations of multiplication (and division) as they occur in a wide range of contexts, together with the ability to communicate this in words, diagrams or symbolic expressions.
Multiplicative thinking involves recognising and working with relationships between numbers whereas additive thinking only requires a capacity to work with numbers themselves.
As a parent, you can do many small things to help develop an understanding of multiplicative thinking:
Look for arrays in everyday life
Use multiplication to work out how many is
in the array. With younger children talk
about rows and columns
For younger students practice counting in
twos, fives and tens
Help students develop strategies. Not every
child can learn by rote and strategies will
help you work with bigger numbers
When multiplying by two, double. 542 times
2 becomes 1084
When multiplying by four, double double.
542 times 4 becomes 1084, 2168
When multiplying by three, double and then
add the original number. 19 times 3
becomes 38 then 57
Or use a friendly number, 19 times 3
becomes 20 times three minus three
When multiplying by five multiply by ten and
then half
If you don’t know 7 nines but know 5 nines,
start there and then add on, don’t start at 1
times 9
Don’t be afraid to manipulate numbers, make them do the work for you, not the other way around.
Hahndor f Primar y School and Preschool
Term 4 Week 5 14th November 2019
From the OSHC Hive….
We would like to express our sincere thanks to Ben and Leo Kellaway for their visit to our ASC service on Monday 11th November, to talk to the children about Remembrance Day and give the children the opportunity to ask some very insightful questions.
Important Government Information: This term is a short one, we will be taking bookings for the Christmas holidays soon. If your child has not attended a session within an 8 week period, their Government enrolment ceases and a new one must be activated before they can attend. It is important to contact us well before you need the booking.
Sheryle Joseph Director Hahndorf Primary School OSHC Ph: 08 8388 7420 Email: [email protected]
Congratulations to Lois who won the “Nora Heysen Junior Art Prize 2019 Flowers Rec-Year 4” in the Flowers and Faces competition.
Hahndorf Primary School, along with 3 other schools in the hills, participated in the competition run by the Cedars.
They had an Open Day last Sunday, 10th November where the winners were announced.
Lois received a gift voucher from The Paint Box, Hahndorf.
Hahndor f Primar y School and Preschool
Term 4 Week 5 14th November 2019
Hahndor f Primar y School and Preschool
Term 4 Week 5 14th November 2019
IMPORTANT DATES:
Friday 6th December 9.00-11.30 New Reception Transition
9.00 New Parent Information Session
Wednesday 11th December 9.00-10.30 Pre-Entry Morning
2.30 Preschool Red Group Graduation
Friday 13th December 1.30 Preschool Blue Group Graduation
2.00 Early dismissal
Both the Blue and Red Group children have continued learning about the butterfly’s life cycle and are waiting patiently for the butterfly to emerge from the chrysalis. We are amazed to see the wings forming inside the chrysalis! We’ve enjoyed making caterpillar and butterfly inspired artwork and we’ve been looking at symmetry, like on a butterfly’s wings.
Blue Group have been practising catching and throwing skills outside and have made up some really great games. We’ve also been caring for our environment on the warmer days using water cans to give our plants a good drink! During group time, we learnt a new inclusive game called ‘Four Corners’ where everyone had fun joining in together, it also helps us to learn colours, numbers and shape.
Red Group children have continued to develop their phonemic awareness, thinking about initial sounds and the letters that represent those sounds. We have been playing with the sounds, blending them together to make words and swapping them around to change the words. We have been enjoying letter writing using the words “to” and “from” appropriately, making envelopes, and sticking on stamps. Mail is delivered after story time and children are excited to receive and to give the letters. We have also been working with number to 20, recognising numerals, working with order and using words like “more”/”less and “larger”/”smaller”.
