Dear Parents, Guardians and Carers,

I know you are all very busy during weekdays with work and supporting the learning of your children. I have come across quite a few places that are offering virtual tours and/or live streams that will entertain your children as well as being educational that may help you with your own work commitments. Here are some of the links:

Phillip Island Penguin Parade: Phillip Island Nature Park is livestreaming the Penguin Parade every night across Facebook and YouTube Starting from Tuesday, August 25th. You will be able to tune in at 6pm AEST each day to watch Australia’s largest colony of fairy penguins and ask the rangers questions in real time. 

Zoos Victoria: The webpage https://www.zoo.org.au/animals-at-home/ provides a host of virtual tours, live webcams and zookeeper talks from the Melbourne Zoo, Healesville Sanctuary and Werribee Open Range Zoo.

Museums Victoria: https://museumsvictoria.com.au/museum-at-home/ provides links to virtual tours at the Melbourne Museum, Scienceworks and the Immigration Museum.

Melbourne Aquarium: The aquarium holds regular live streams that can be accessed via their facebook page. Videos of previous live tours can also be found on the following link: https://www.melbourneaquarium.com.au/explore/live-stream/. The children can also join up as a junior keeper and participate in a range of activities. This link to that can be found here: https://www.melbourneaquarium.com.au/junior-keeper/.

It was great to see at the class meetings so many children participating in the crazy hair day for last week’s Friday Funday. Well done everyone. Miles and Violet have shared their crazy hair with us all, they look great!

This week's Friday Funday is bright coloured clothes day. I can’t wait to see all the colours!