Week 11
Dear Parents
Wow, I cannot believe how quick the year has gone. We are in our last week of Term 2!!!You should be so proud of your children's wonderful achievements and success this first semester. I hope that you enjoy two weeks off and have some special family time together. Just a few reminders about the last week of term...
Popcorn and Movie 🍿🍿
On Friday to celebrate the end of term and the hard work the children have done this semester. We are going to watch a movie, eat some popcorn and have a lovely, snuggly and relaxing afternoon together. The children can bring a soft toy to cuddle up to as well (I know how much they love soft toys)😂😂
Learning and Curriculum
In just one semester the students have really worked hard in their academic pursuits learning to decode tricky words, read with growing fluency, write sentences , recount and information reports and spell so many words including new digraphs, trigraphs and a lot of tricky words along the way. We have learnt about our biological and physical world in science, the elements of line, shape, texture and tints/shade of colour in visual art.
In mathematics we have built our number sense to learn about two-digit numbers, addition, subtraction, probability and data, reading clocks and 2D/3D shapes and their attributes, in technology we have designed, built and created objects and learnt about our technological world using computers, ipad and apps and finally we have learnt about Jesus, his life on Earth, prayer to our Creator and gratitude for all of his creations and about our relationship with God and our church. Wow!!!! The personal growth in self-regulation, responsibility and learning of every student makes us so very proud and grateful to teach such an awesome class.
Mathematics
The last fortnight we have been working on our geometry knowledge, learning about 2D and 3D shapes and the vocabulary of edges, sides, corners, vertices and faces. We have been doing lots of hands-on learning as well as recording our knowledge in tables and reading columns and rows to complete information about shapes. Please feel free to come in and have a look at the amazing 3D shapes the children have made in class.
Merit Awards
Well done to Andy Hoang our Week 9 Award Winner and Dylan Hart our Star Citizen award winner. We are so lucky to have you both in Year 1C sharing your beautiful manners and appreciation. Congratulations boys you deserve it!
Cross Country
Well done to the amazing runners for our annual cross country event. You are all running superstars who can make that lap around the oval seem like a breeze! Well done Year 1C on showing amazing persistence and resilience during cross country.
End of Semester Reports
Grades and comments are being finalised into next week and formal reports will be sent home in electronic form via SEQTA on the final day of term. Information and reminders regarding how to set up or use seqta will be sent via administration next week.
Our Semester One reports grading align with the Western Australian curriculum and achievement standards for Year 1. These reports may look a little different to what you are familiar with from pre-primary and we encourage you to read the first opening page of the report which explains what each grade letter means in association with the SCSA WA curriculum rather than thinking about the grade letters we used to receive in our schooling years. A 'C grade' on your child's report is likened to an average achievement grade and relates to the majority of the WA year 1 population achievement/progression level of the curriculum and our OLC reports also include their personal values and attitudes for their learning.
I am so proud of how far they have personally all come over the semester and their dedication towards achieving individual goals. Please feel free to contact me via email or in class if you wish to discuss anything at all either this week or early next term about the report or any other matter at all.
Homework
We have collected homework folders this and will give you the week off if you wish - Yay! We will use this time to do a stocktake for the home readers and ask if you have any home reading books or library at home to send them in please. Comprehension packs will also not be coming home this week from the library and library books will also not be accessioned.
We will send home a list of tricky words and digraph spelling sounds we have learnt over the last two terms for review if you wish to test your child and see which words they personally are still finding difficult. We have studied these words and sounds for reading and spelling explicitly in class each day as a part of our InitiaLit1 literacy program. You may wish to write up your own grid of particular words to practise speed reading and read some of them out loud for them to practise spelling independently over the last week of school and the holidays if you wish. (Please note the extension list is only for those students who currently receive the extension spelling words and it is not expected for most year 1 students to read and spell the extension list words.)
Character Strengths:
Year 1C Prayer Assembly
The Year One's will be doing the Prayer Assembly Week 1 of Term 3. Friday the 23rd of July. Please save the date we would love you to be there. We will be singing One Love - By Bob Marley at Assembly. We will be learning the song this week. If get any spare time to sing the song with your children during the holidays that would really appreciated, to get their confidence up for when we perform it at assembly. The link is below to the song.
Design Technology
We are looking forward to this Wedneaday where we will be creating our final technology design project with our buddies - an animal with features from recycled products and craft materials. So far our year 1 designers have chosen an animal to make out of listed available materials and labelled their special features along with the purpose and function of these features. This is a direct link with our science topic this term: creatures and their features. We will then be making these Wednesday afternoon with our Year 5 buddies to be our assistants. I will mention to the children that they are also welcome to bring in any specific recycled materials from home if they wish (eg. plastic bottles, cardboard rolls, round plastic containers) in a named plastic bag. However, we still have an abundance of box construction and craft materials at OLC which will be available to use.
Dance Concert
We will also be looking forward to watching the Dance concert with the Years 3 to 6 classes performing at 2pm on the last day of term. It will also be a great little insight to the dance classes our Year 1 students are really looking forward to participating in for the next two terms every Friday.
Calming Sensory Bottles
We will be making our glitter sensory bottles on Wednesday too. Thank you to everyone for bringing in plastic bottles for this project. This is a picture example of a sensory DIY bottle that we will be making in class. The children will use, water, clear glue, food colouring and different materials such as pom poms, glitter, feathers etc to create their own special bottle. The children are also allowed to bring things from home to add to their bottle if they would like. Sensory bottles have many benefits including helping children with self regulation.It is important that children learn to regulate their own emotions and this is a great tool to help them with their feelings. They can concentrate on the glitter or floating objects in their bottle and re center their thoughts. We will be using our special bottles in rest and relaxation time too.
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