Year 1C OLC

 Hello Parents,  Welcome back to the first day of Term 4. I hope you had a lovely break with the family and are ready to get back into the final nine weeks of Year One!!! I can't believe how fast the year has gone.. I am going to cherish this term with your cherubs. A warm welcome back to Arlo Townsend and Isla Reagan who have been away travelling (so lucky), it is so lovely to have you both back in the classroom.  A few messages to start off the term...   Seesaw Seesaw has been a  brilliant   rep o rting  tool for us as teachers and we love seeing your comments on all your children’s work. We are looking forward to continuing this great reporting method this term along with your child’s end of semester report  which will include grades and a general comment.   We  can ’ t  wait to share  more of our amazing work  with you before the end of Term  Four , so keep an eye out for our amazing work to  come!😍 ...

Dear Parents  I cannot believe how quickly this term has gone. I am so proud of the children and how they have been working in IC! I hope you had a lovely weekend and you have been enjoying some of these warm sunny days :)  Just a few notices LEARNING In Initialit reading we have been learning about reading with fluency, verbs and using the suffix 'ed' to show it has already happened.  In reading groups we have been working on sounding out loud tricky words, chunking longer words into syllables and asking someone if we don't know what a word means and can't imagine anything.  We know how important it is to always use our two reading brains - one says the words and sentences and the other imagines what is happening and plays a movie or TV show in our head.  It is important that both happen for us to be 'real readers'.  We are beginning a new writing genre unit, learning about procedural texts - instructions, recipes and how-to are all examples of procedure t...

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...