Welcome to Week 5, we are nearly halfway through our first term of Year 1. This week we investigated the sounds /h/ /f/ and /m/ as well as the sight word ‘on’. Students have been working diligently on their handwriting. We have been noticing that some of our letters must be taller than others and some need to fall under the line. Here is a reminder when practising at home 🙂
During Maths lessons we have been focusing on teen numbers. You may like to listen to this catchy tune at home to practise place value!
The students created rain clouds showing the tens and ones in teen numbers:
The students also created towers with the numbers:
Week 5 finished up with our amazing assembly. Well done to all the students! Thank you to all our wonderful families for practising lines at home and for your encouraging words.
Today we hosted the Assembly. All the children did an amazing job, being brave, and working as a team to present our learning.
Welcome to wonderful week FOUR! Our first month of learning together has been a busy one! Each day we give the students the following reminders to ensure we have a safe and happy day of learning. You may like to chat with your child about our classroom rules.
With our ‘Teamwork’ assembly fast approaching the students have been learning several songs. The song linked below will be used during prayer, if you’d like to practise at home.
During English lessons this week we have been working hard on our sounds and sight words! We have also continued our fabulous book making. We discussed the way various authors begin their stories and had a go writing our own.
For Maths, students continued exploring correct number formation and worked on recognition of numbers to 120. We had a go at creating a number chart puzzle, thinking hard about numbers that come before and after.
Book making- The students have been doing a wonderful job making books this year. They are being brave spellers when creating their books. Here are the children in action:
Reminders
Assembly is next Thursday 29th March
Please practise reading parts
Next Friday is a Pupil Free Day
Log in details have been provided via email for ‘Teach Your Monster To Read’ please see your child’s teacher if needing any further information or assistance
Hello to our wonderful parent and student community of 1SA and 1PN. Bet you’ve been wondering what we’ve been up to this week. Well… take a look!
This week during word study we have focused on the letters p, i and n as well as the sight words ‘a’ and ‘that’. Here are some students from 1SA practising and investigating the sound /Ii/.
For book making we have focused on creating a detailed front cover that includes a tile, picture and our name. We noticed that authors often put their main character on the front cover and sometimes even the setting! Take a sneak peak of some of our front covers created during Writer’s Workshop.
We have also continued working on our number formation and subitising during Mathematics. This clever skill of subitising is when you are able to look at a group of objects and realise how many there are without counting. You can practise at home too with this subitising song!
Here are our collections of 120!
Brody counted 1 by 1 up to 50!
Jayden created two collections of 120 and compared their size
Beau created groups of 10 to form his collection
This week we also celebrated important events on the liturgical calendar; Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday. For Shrove Tuesday, also known as ‘Pancake Day’, we shared some delicious pancakes together and on Wednesday we celebrated with a whole school mass to mark the beginning of Lent.
Technologies- For food technologies last week, the students made a list of foods that they like the taste of, and foods that they don’t like the taste of.
This week, the students had to label the foods that they drew as ‘everyday’ foods and ‘sometimes’ foods. Here is what they came up with:
HASS
We are learning what words we use to describe time?
Success Criteria: I can use words to describe time such as past, present and future.
Upcoming Event
1sA and 1PN will be hosting a whole school assembly on Thursday, Week 5 (29/2/24) – (Friday the 1st of March is a Pupil Free Day). Pencil it in your diaries! We hope you can all attend! Your child might bring home a reading part in their black folders next week, if so, please practise together at home!
Welcome to Week 2. A big thank you to the parents who were able to attend our ‘Information Evening’ on Monday, we appreciate your time! If you were unable to attend please note the following information in regards to parent volunteers.
There are numerous opportunities where parents can become involved in the school including the following…
As a member of the School Board;
Helping in the canteen
Assisting in the reading program by hearing children read
Going on excursions
In order to do one of the above listed activities you must complete a ’Working With Children Check’ and undertake an induction including online child protection training. The cost will be covered by the school, see office for more information if interested. If you already have a current Working With Children Check through another organisation, this can be used at our location. Please note that the application process for the Working With Children Check can take a number of weeks but the WWCC is valid for 5 years.
This week we began our new topic for Maths: learning all about numbers! We practised our number formation and engaged in a range of Numeracy investigations. The students have particularly enjoyed singing our ‘Big Numbers Song’. You may like to listen along at home…
This term in English we are investigating sounds and digraphs. Throughout word study we will be looking at letter formation, sounding out, identifying/locating sounds in words, high frequency words and their origins, spelling, sentence formation and picture/word association. Check out the students ‘Bumping Up’ their phonics work this week to include sentences!
On Thursday in our first HASS lesson, we set up a gallery walk – to set the scene of our terms history topic.
Students explored images from the past (with no prior context) and made observations about what the images were and how they were used. We returned as a class and reviewed the images that sparked the students interests and discussed what they thought each was. We asked the students to share what they will be exploring in HASS this unit?
Religion- This week in religion we watched the story from Luke’s Gospel, ‘Jesus Blesses Little Children’.
We also discussed Jesus’ commandment about treating others the way you want to be treated. For this task, the students were asked to choose another person and write a positive message about their character.
Friday we celebrated Vietnamese / Chinese New Year – it is the year of the Dragon. We made our own Chinese dragons.
A lot of fun and learning to be had in 1SA and 1PN this week 🙂
A big welcome to all the families of 1SA and 1PN. We are very excited to meet you all and had a wonderful first week together! A 2024 information note was handed out on the first day and is also attached below. It contains all the information you need to know in regards to sports time and library day. We look forward to all the fun and learning that will take place this year and will give you weekly updates here on the blog.
Our Parent Information Evening will be held on Monday, February 5th starting at 6:00pm. We hope you can attend.
REMINDER – Please send your child’s black folder to school each day. If you have lost it, please let us know.
Library – We had our first visit to the Library today…. unfortunately some children were not about to borrow as they still have books overdue from last year. Please return ASAP
Here are the beautiful faces of 1SA:
Here are the beautiful faces of 1PN
Religion- This week for our religion lesson, we had a prayer service about the 2024 school year ahead. The children then wrote their own prayers, focusing on a personal goal for them for the year ahead.
Well done our 1SA and 1PN children on a great first week of Year 1
