Year 1C OLC

In Year 1C we have been lucky enough to have the special help of Leo's Dad, Chris Chapman. Chris Chapman runs a business in Dunsborough called Chapstar Surfboards making custom made performance surfboards as well as stocking a range of surf hardware. Chris took the time to make and shape mini wooden surfboards for each child in Year 1C with the help of Wyatt's Dad, Michael Dodd. The children were asked to create a design for their mini surfboard with an ocean theme. Over a few lessons, Chris Chapman helped the children create their surfboard designs and showed examples of surfboards he has made and designed himself.  The children painted the surfboards with acrylic and then used paint pens to draw.  Thankyou Chris and Micheal! Come check out the children's beautiful surfboard art tomorrow night 🏄🏄🏄🏄🏄🏄🏄 Warm Regards  Miss Christie

Welcome to Week 2 :)  A  look into what we will be learning for the first half of this term: Literacy:  We are focusing on persuasive texts which is a new type of writing for us this year! This is a piece of writing that will explain our readers and opinion about a topic and we will use reasons with explanations and details to try to convince our readers to feel, think and agree the same belief as us.   Maths:  In Mathematics we are building our number knowledge and understanding.  This fortnight we will be looking at repeated addition as a pre-concept leading into understanding the basics of multiplication, followed by sharing as a introduction to division for the next fortnight.  We will also be learning about the relationship of addends in an addition sum and understanding turnaround addition facts, as well as the addition strategy of identifying the bigger number and counting on - think big, count on strategy.   Religion:  The Y...

 Dear Parents  Welcome back to Week One! I hope you all had a relaxing time over the holidays. I certainly enjoyed having a sleep in after the busy 11 week term 😂 We have a jam packed busy term ahead starting with our Prayer Assembly this Friday!!! Prayer Assembly  In religion this term we are studying the Confirmation Unit. Our Prayer Assembly will be based on what we are learning during this unit of work.  The children are learning that people use their bodies to relate to the world around them. People can use their bodies to help them sense the world and people around them. They use their eyes to see, read and to be aware of how people are showing their feelings Their ears to hear different sounds, and to learn from people’s voices how they are feeling. Their skin to feel different textures and to show affection to people they love and feel safe with. They also feel the warmth of the sun and the cold wind blowing on their faces. Their mouths to speak and express...

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 ...

Dear Parents,  I hope you had a lovely weekend enjoying the beautiful winter weather! Only a few weeks to go and what a term we have had so far! I'm so impressed with the incredible personal growth the students have had personally and academically over the last six months.   Cross Country 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ Just a reminder that Cross Country is taking place this Thursday 17th of June. Students are to wear their faction shirt and are encouraged to wear zinc and bring teddies. We will make our way down to the oval at 9 am for a 9:15am start, however we will be the second year group running the cross country as it will begin with Year 3's, then Year 1's and then Year 2's, etc. Providing the weather stays good, we will stay out to watch some of the other races. Parents are most welcome to join us to watch, please note that the bottom gravel car park is unavailable.  Merit Award Winner 🌟✨ Congratulations to Cruz Cross who was our week 8 Merit Award winner. You are a Year One...

Hello Parents  I hope that you have been keeping up to date with some of the things we have been getting up to in Year 1C on SeeSaw. Please let me know if you are having troubles accessing SeeSaw at home. Just a few messages for this week.... OLC Celebrates National Sorry Day The Sorry Day whole school photo was a huge success and was well received on social media by members of the community with over 3000 views. Thank you to the committee for organizing this event and for the support of all staff and students for making it happen. View the amazing pictures below:  Character Strengths Dear Parents, currently at OLC we are focusing on modeling and observing different character strengths. The strengths that we will focus on are taken directly from the VIA Institute for Character. If you wanted to learn more about this please follow the link to the 24 character strengths: https://www.viacharacter.org/character-strengths This upcoming week we are looking for people who show...

 Hello Parents  In visual art this term we have been focusing on the artist Rebecca Cool. We were lucky enough today to have Rebecca Cool come visit the Year Ones. Rebecca Cool is a Western Australian artist and illustrator. Rebecca lives in a rural property in Margaret River. Rebeeca has studied at the Claremont School of Fine Art and has her work shown at a number of exhibitions. Here are some of Rebeccas paintings.... Rebecca is happiest when she is painting and creating her charming, colourful and playful compositions. Her work features a combination of acrylic paint and fabric collage and her strong, colourful works have a naive charm reminiscent of European folk art. Rebecca has illustrated a series of books that have won many awards including the book Isabella's Garden, Can I come too Eliza Lou? and For all the Creatures. Today the children were fortunate enough to listen to Rebecca Cool read the story Isabella's Garden by Glenda Millard. Isabella's Garden is about t...