What's Happening in Week 8

Inquiry learning intention:

"Why do we share stories?" We will continue to look at how we share stories and will be working in our project groups during learning agreement.

Numeracy learning intentions:

Reading, comparing, ordering and locating two and three digit numbers. (Making large numbers and counting in tens)

Literacy learning experiences:

• Narrative Writing – children are writing their own stories based on their own experiences.
• Big Books the children have read or will be reading (Weeks 5-8)
• The Dinosaur Zoo - ‘Create a list of rhyming words’
• My Wonderful Aunt – Story 1 ‘Create a list of rhyming words’
• McBungle’s African Safari - ‘Create a list of rhyming words’
• The Little Yellow Chicken - ‘ell’
• Word Study – integrated from the Big Books above.
• Reading Response – Connect, Extend, Challenge – Big Book ‘How plants grow’
• Guided Reading
• Handwriting – the letter ‘z’

Well-Being

‘Smiling Mind’ – meditation education program

Circle Time

Week Ahead

Monday 
LA (9:00-11:00am - Parent helpers welcome)
Visual Art (All home groups)

Tuesday
LA (9:00-11:00am - Parent helpers welcome)

Wednesday
LA (9:00-11:00am - Parent helpers welcome)

Thursday
PE and Italian (1S & 1N)
Music workshops

Friday 
LA (9:00-11:00am - Parent helpers welcome)
PE and Italian (1T & 1H)

Assembly in the gym at 3pm

STUDENTS ARE TO BE PICKED UP FROM THE YEAR ONE NEIGHBOURHOOD AT 3:30PM

A graphic designer visiting our neighbourhood today

 

Today Otto's dad, Ben, came to our neighbourhood to talk about his work.  He is a graphic designer and has been involved in a variety of very interesting projects.

Ben came along to talk about what he does and to help us bring to life the characters (Max Winston, Book Man, Hipster the tiny flying whale and Spludge the pig)  for our whole neighbourhood story to life.

Ben used the children's drawings and the shapes they created to develop each character.

The children were very pleased with the drawings.
We went back to the drawing board in our groups to discuss and give feedback to Ben of any changes we want to include.

 

We were so happy that Ben helped us move our projects along.
Thank you so much Ben!

The Movie Project so far!
We have been working on conceptual drawings, story writing and story boarding. The next stage of the project will include setting designs and creating 3D characters.

If you can offer your assistance or expertise, please contact one of the year one neighbourhood teachers.

National Simultaneous Storytime Day

Yesterday the Year 1 neighbourhood participated in National Simultaneous Storytime day. National Simultaneous Storytime is an annual campaign that aims to encourage more young Australians to read and enjoy books. Now in its 15th successful year it is a colourful, vibrant, fun event that aims to promote the value of reading and literacy using an Australian children's book. 

Meredith our resident Teacher Candidate from Melbourne University, read the chosen story for this year 'The Brothers Quibble' by Aaron Blabey. 

Assembly

The Year One Neighbourhood will be presenting our learning at assembly tomorrow, Friday 29th May, at 3.00pm.

The children will also be singing. Join us at the school gym. We look forward to seeing there. 

Walkathon

Just a friendly reminder to parents, that money for the walkathon is now being collected.

A pizza party is up for grabs for the home-group who brings their money in first!

Premiers' Reading Challenge

The Premiers' Reading Challenge is upon us once again!

Children and parents can collect forms from Room 14 (ask Sia).

Your child can select books from a level list. The online system allows a student to select any book from the book list, regardless of the year level to which it has been allocated. It is then up to your child's teacher or school Challenge coordinator to approve, through online verification, their reading list as appropriate and challenging.

Rules for school and student Challengers

• Students must register as a Challenger and keep a record of their reading on the Challenge website.
• Students must read a set number of books during the Challenge:

Year level	Number of books	Number from the Challenge book list
Prep – Year 2	30 books	20 or more

• Students' online books must be verified as read by a coordinator in at school.
• All information must be completed online before 14 September 2015.

Prep, Year 1 or Year 2

If children are in Prep, Year 1 or Year 2 they can read books by themselves or with someone else, for example, a parent, teacher, brother or sister, classmate, buddy or friend. This support is important if they are just learning to read.

Walkathon

We were very lucky the weather held out!

The children were incredibly excited to take part in the Walkathon. 

Thank you to all the parents who assisted on the day to set up and distribute muffins and fruit.

Walkathon

Dear parents and carers,

A reminder that next Tuesday, 19^th May is our annual Walkathon.

Please ensure that your child has appropriate footwear and attire for the day, in addition to a named water bottle. You are more than welcome to join the children on their laps.

The Walkathon commences at 12.15pm, with a break at 1:00pm. Children will resume walking at 1.15pm and finish at 2:00pm.

The picnic will commence at 2:00pm.

Could all parents/carers who have offered their services to help with serving afternoon tea meet in the staffroom on Tuesday at 1.15. There you will sort the muffins and fruit into trays for each home group.

If you have offered to bring a picnic rug can you please arrive by 1.50.

Students in years 3-6 will have their picnic on the back oval, students in prep-2 on the mini oval.

Fingers crossed for a lovely May day!

Kind regards,

Anne-Maree Seccull, Geoff Ratcliffe and Hannah Rother-Gelder

Reminder- Mother's Day Stall

A quick reminder that the Mother's Day stall will be operating tomorrow (Friday 8th). Please remember to send money with you child/ren if you would like them to take part. Thanks.

Learning Agreement

As part of our inquiry on ‘Creativity’ and in particular our focus on how, Messages can be relayed and received through different forms of expression, the children have been developing key understandings on the various ways in which we express ourselves.
Currently we are working with Nova Weetman (Arlo's mum) to develop characters for a story.  Nova worked with four groups and develop the characters;

Max Winston

Book Man

Spludge the flying pig

&

Hipster the Tiny Flying Whale

We will be further developing our characters and the story line. So stray tuned!

ANZAC Day

Last week we commemorated ANZAC Day in neighbourhood one.  We remember by...

     Reading the book, 'The Beach they called Gallipoli' by Jackie French & Bruce Wharley.

     Writing what ANZAC Day means to us.

'Anzac Day is a time when we remember what the ANZACs did for us and it is also a time we remember who died.'
Lola Widmer Year 1

     Making ANZAC biscuits (A big thank you to Julie Markovic - Harvey's mum)

     Painting and creating poppies.

A display of our work can be found outside Room 16.

Circus Performance

"It was the best day of my life!"

A comment that sums up the excitement and pride the children felt about their performance.  The children worked extremely hard to refine their skills and their hard work paid off.
Parents, siblings and grandparents commented on how wonderful the two performances were and how happy their children felt.
Congratulations to all the children in the Year One neighbourhood for their Circus performance.