This Sunday is Father's Day in Australia. Father's Day is celebrated on different dates around the world but in Australia it is always on the first Sunday in September. 

Father's Day is about thanking our dads for all of the things they do for us. In some families, all of the cousins, aunts and uncles all get together to celebrate with a special meal, or activity. Other families celebrate at home with just their immediate family. Some families remember Dads who are no longer with them. It can be a very happy celebration but for some families it can also be a bit sad. 

On Wednesday 21st August, our school celebrated Book Week and held our annual Book Week Parade. All of the students and teachers were asked to come to school dressed as a character from a book. We were impressed at the creativity of some of the students with their amazing costumes.

The parade was held at 2.00pm and all of our families were invited to attend. We enjoyed watching the parade and cheering for the younger students, and of course, we loved showing off our own costumes.

Last week during literacy, Marsden used a website called iFaketext.com to create fake text messages. Because we have been reading Letters From the Goldfields, we thought it would be fun to pretend that the Gold Rush was happening in our era.

Our teacher created a video to teach us how to create the text and use the Snipping Tool to save it as a jpeg. We watched the video at home so that we were ready to create our text in our computer time during Guided Reading sessions. Using the knowledge we have gained through reading, research and discussions, we created text messages that might have been sent from the Gold Fields, if mobile phones had existed in 1851!

This text was created by Vinit.

2 weeks ago, Marsden studied a procedure on how to cook sausage rolls. Mrs Chegwidden found the recipe on one of our favourite cooking websites, Taste.com.au. Because it was Ramadan when we read the recipe, we decided to wait two weeks until none of our classmates were fasting.

This week we finally cooked them, with the help of our wonderful Grandfriend, Mrs Mac. We used Halal sausage mince, and made a second batch using chicken mince instead as some of the students are not allowed pork or beef for Religious reasons. They smelled amazing as they were cooking.

Last Week our school held a Pyjama Day to raise money for children with Cancer. We all came to school wearing our pyjamas. It was really good to be able to just get out of bed in the morning and come straight to school without having to get dressed. It was a very cold day and we weren't sure that we would be able to go outside because it was raining in the morning. Luckily, the rain stopped and we got to go out and do fitness in our pyjamas. At lunch time, the SRC ran some activities for students and their Teddy Bears. We played What's the Time Mr Bear?, Pin the Tail on the Teddy, Teddy's got Talent and many more. Here are some photos from the day.