Hi all,

Just a reminder that this Friday, the 7th of June is our classes Assembly. The Assembly will take place at 9:00am in the Hall. The children have been working hard and are very excited to present their learning.

All families and friends are welcome to join us!

Kind Regards,

Emily and Kyle

Welcome to another week in 1EJ and 1KS. Just a reminder that our classes will be hosting an Assembly in Week 6 on Friday the 7th of June at 9am in the Hall. All families are invited to attend.

In Literacy, we have been exploring the digraph sound ‘sh’ and the sight word ‘was’. We also continued with our Kung Fu Punctuation where we introduced ellipses and commas.

In Numeracy, we continued learning and revising our number facts to 10 and delved deeper into the operation addition.

In Science, we started an inquiry about shadows and the sun. This was done through investigated where we see shadows and what we thought had made them.

In Health, we looked at the rights and responsibilities of children and adults through watching a story called ‘Willy and Hugh’.

In Technologies, we created our very own character masks that matched our design process from the week before.

In Art, we have been looking at how lines can create images where we created crazy hair for ourselves.

On Wednesday, we celebrated National Simultaneous Storytime Day! This year we listened to the story ‘Bowerbird Blues’ written by Aura Parker. The story was about longing connection, which unravels as the Bowerbird takes flight across sea, sky and city. This day encourages more young Australians to read and enjoy books as it asks all students across all schools to stop at 12:00pm and listen to the story being read. 

In Religion, we learnt about the Pentecost and further explored the Holy Spirit.

Have a safe and happy weekend! A reminder to bring library bags each day.

See you all next week, for week 5!!!

Hello families and welcome to what week 3 looked like in our classroom! We ask that the children practise these songs at home in preparation for our assembly.

In Word Study this week, we introduced a new digraph sound to the children. We explored that when the letter W and the letter H team up together to make one sound they make the sound ‘wh’ as in whale. We engaged in handwriting activities, found the sound in picture books, creating sentences using ‘wh’ word and played in and out sound games. Have a look at our work.

Congratulations to Shayan and Zayin for reading 25 nights!

Congratulations to Marley and Audrey for reading 50 nights!

In Religion, we have been learning all about Mary! The students were asked to draw anything they know about Mary and have a go at writing a sentence to match. Some of the drawings that we saw were ‘Gabriel telling Mary she was pregnant, Mary having baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Mary and God and Baby Jesus in Bethlehem with Mary.

In Maths, we began a new topic all about Rainbow facts to 10! These facts are 2 numbers that when added together equal the number 10. All week the students engaged in a range of activities to practise their knowledge of these number facts. Have a look at our work!

In Technologies, we continued working on our design skills! This week we designed our very own character mask. The students were able to choose which character they wanted to make, draw their mask and have a go at labeling the materials they will need.

Art

In art we have started to investigate how lines can affect our drawings. Check out some of the ways we used lines.

Play Investigations

Wow! What another wonderful week full of learning in 1EJ and 1KS. This week we covered lots of topics and both consolidated as well as explored previous and new topics.

A few reminders for this term as follows:

1EJ and 1KS Assembly: Week 6 (7th of June)

School Dentist: Monday 20th- Friday 24th May

Public Holiday: Monday 10th of June

Pupil Free Day: Tuesday 11th of June

Congratulations to Dominic for reading 75 nights!

Congratulations to Mohith for reading 25 nights!

In Word Study this week, we learnt the digraph sound ‘th’. We had a go writing the sound, sounding out words that contain the ‘soft th’ and the ‘hard th’ and then put them into sentences. Over the week the students were then asked to find words that contain the ‘th’ sound in picture books as well as write these word in rainbow, pyramid and sentence writing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNtDhtnjPgA

In Writers Workshop, we began looking at KUNG FU PUNCTUATION! This is to help us remember to punctuate our work when writing. You may like to try it at home 🙂

In Maths, we have continued our work on PATTERNS. We have created AB, AAB, ABB and ABC using objects, colours, numbers and shapes.

In Technologies, we used our designs from last week to create and make our EMOJI MASKS! The students were very creative and enjoyed creating and sharing their masks with their peers.

In Religion, the children explored The Visitation (Luke 1:39-56). Have a look at our work retelling the story through illustrations.

In Science, we discussed the 4 seasons being Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring. The students shared things they already knew about each season and were asked to draw a picture of what each season looks and feels like. We then also explored which months of the year happen in each season.

Good Afternoon,

Starting from tomorrow (Tuesday the 7th of May) an AFL football clinic will be run every Tuesday after school on the oval for students reception-year 2. We encourage students to get involved and learn some new skills!

In order to participate, scan the QR code below and follow the prompts.

Wow! What a busy week we have had in 1EJ and 1KS.

We cannot believe that we are already in Term 2. Some important dates for Term 2 to remember are as written below.

• Pupil Free Day: 6th f May
• 1EJ and 1KS Assembly: 7th of June
  

To being our week, we asked the students to reflect and recount on their two week break. The students enjoyed sharing all of the places they visited, people they spend time with and things that they got up to with their peers.

In Numeracy, we have been exploring patterns. We have learnt that a pattern is a sequence that repeats and that all patterns have a unit of repeat. This week students engaged in a variety of activities where they used colours, numbers, symbols and objects to both create and continue patterns.

In Science this term we are going to be learning all about weather! This week the students had an opportunity to show us what they already know as well as make predictions about what the weather would look and feel like for the rest of the week. We watched a weather report on the news and used the symbols to show what the weather looks like in Parafield Gardens.

In Word Study, we have begun learning the digraph sounds. A digraph sound is 2 letters that make 1 sound.

Our focus this week was the sound ‘ch’. We practised our handwriting, found words in books that contain the ‘ch’ sound and wrote our own sentences using words that have a ch in the beginning, middle or end of the word.

In Technologies, we have been learning all about design processes. This week the children designed their very own Emoji Mask. They were asked to draw their favourite emoji and label all the materials they would need to make it the following week.

Welcome to the last week of term! We had a wonderful and busy week this week with sports day and preparing for the break. Through out the week students have showed their progression in their learning where they discovered counting by twos and how to create complex sentences by adding more information into each sentence.

Literacy

In word study this week students looked at all the sounds we have learnt over the term and how we can put these sounds together to make CVC words like dog, cat, leg.

In bookmaking we have been looking at creating strong sentences.

Sports Day

Numeracy

In Maths this week we have been focusing on how to count by 2s to 120. The children engaged in a variety of hands on activities to practise their counting skills.

Congratulations to Monairene for reading 25 nights!

Technologies

In technologies this week, we explored and researched food from different cultures. The students were asked to draw their favourite food and the country’s flag that it originates from.

We wish all the children and families a safe and happy break and look forward to seeing you all on the 29th of April for Term 2!

Just a reminder that this Wednesday the 10 April is Sports Day! Sports Day will be held on the schools oval.

Students are allocated to one of the Houses listed below:

Here is a list of which team your child is in.

School will commence at the normal time of 8.50am. Students will need to wear their sports uniform but may wear a coloured shirt for their sports house. Our session will run from 9:00-11:00am.

If you are attending and would like to take your child home early, please ensure that you see their teacher before leaving to sign out your child.

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