Farewell Celebration for Tony

We are planning a farewell celebration for Tony on Friday 26th June on the last day of term 2.  We ask the children to bring to school a small plate of food to share with the neighbourhood.  The celebration will begin at 10.30 am. If parents would like to help with the setting up please speak to Sia, Tomo or Tash.  Parents are welcome to join the farewell celebration, to say their good-byes to Tony.

If your child has a specific allergy, could you please provide a plate marked with your child's name and give to their home-group teacher.

Thank you

A Costume for Max Winston

Fran (Rufus' grandma) will be making Max Winston's jumper for our neighbourhood movie.  She came in today to find out from the children which colours she needed to use to knit the jumper.  The children told Fran that Max Winston wears a rainbow coloured jumper.

We would like to thank Fran (Rufus' grandma) and Fleur (Rufus' mum) for coming in to help us with our movie.

What’s Happening in Week 11

Inquiry learning intention: 

"How message can be relayed and received through different forms of expression" We are exploring how stories can be expressed. The whole year one neighbourhood is involved in a collaboration to create a movie. The children have chosen 1 of 4 departments to participate in. The departments include creating the characters, settings, costumes and props.  

Numeracy learning intentions: 
Addition and subtraction stories: Creating maths narratives and solving them by using number sentences (e.g. 10–6=4). Looking at the language used in maths.

Literacy learning experiences: 

·         Narrative Writing – children are writing their own stories based on their experiences

·         Big Books that the children would have read or will be reading (Weeks 10-11)

o   Big Science - Plants We Eat

o   What on Earth

·         Reading Response – Connect, Extend, Challenge – Big Book ‘How Plants Grow’

·         Handwriting and Word Study – the letter ‘w’

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
Parent/Student/Teacher Conferences - Curriculum/Student free day

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

Final assembly for the Term will be in the gym at 2pm

Reminder that the school finishes AT 2:30PM and the students are to be picked up from the Year One Neighbourhood.

Dress Up Day for Research

The children dressed up as pirates to raise money for research into childhood brain cancer.  Thank you to all the children who dressed up and brought along a gold coin.

Card Trading

We have noticed that many children are bringing to school Football trading cards and albums. We encourage children to bring their interests to school however we wish to remind everyone that trading cards at school has been banned.  Please continue to have fun and enjoy looking at your collection together at school.

Locker Clean Up

Our lockers are looking a little crowded at the moment and they need to be nice and clean at the end of term.  We encourage the children to bring to school a plastic bag to take home any extra work or clothes that may be learking in the back of their locker.  There will be a locker clean out and inspection on Wednesday afternoon. (Kerri and Anne will be inspecting our lockers on Friday).

Visual Art News- Term 3

In term 3 all students will be exploring the work of Australian artist John Wolseley. The NGV Australia is currently showing a wonderful exhibition of Wolseley's work and it would fantastic if students are able to visit the exhibition in the holidays so they are familiar with his work and are able to view it close up. (The intricacies of his line work  and mark making do get lost in photographs and reproductions.)

 Many thanks,

Hannah Rother-Gelder

Visual Art teacher

Action Required - Morning Drop Off.

A quick reminder that when dropping your child off in the morning please enter through the front door of the red brick building. All neighbourhoods have specific entry points to ensure a consistent flow of students through each building. There have been some concerns of year 1 students entering through the prep courtyard and interrupting prep routines.Thank you for your continued support.

The Year 1 Team

Action Required - Parent/Student/Teacher Conferences

The Parent/Student/Teacher Conferences will be held next Thursday the 25th of June from 12pm to 7pm. The conferences times can be booked through Compass. Please ensure that you have book an appointment. If you are experiences any difficulties please contact Julie at the office and she will assist you with booking a time to see your home group teacher.

Pirate day Friday

Friday the 19^th of June is pirate day Friday. We would like everybody to dress up as a pirate and bring in a gold coin donation even parents and teachers if they want to. Pirate day Friday raises awareness and money for childhood brain cancer research. We chose to support pirate day Friday because more children die in Australia from childhood brain cancer than any other disease. On Friday all students will bring in a gold coin donation and then will get a white-eye patch to decorate on the day. We hope to see you all dressed up as pirates this Friday.

What’s Happening in Week 10

Inquiry learning intention: 

"How message can be relayed and received through different forms of expression" We are exploring how stories can be expressed. The whole year one neighbourhood is involved in a collaboration to create a movie. Currently we are developing storyboards and scripts.

Numeracy learning intentions: 
Children are developing their skills in understanding, problem solving and reasoning. Children will be exploring mathematics in stories and representing some of their own.

Literacy learning experiences: 

·      Narrative Writing – children are writing their own stories based on their experiences

·      Big Books that the children would have read or will be reading (Weeks 10-11)

o   Big Science - Plants We Eat

o   What on Earth

·      Reading Response – Connect, Extend, Challenge – Big Book ‘How Plants Grow’

·      Guided Reading

·      Handwriting and Word Study – the letter ‘v’

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.

Seed Project

As part of our inquiry we have been exploring How messages can be relayed in different ways. The children have been creating a whole neighbourhood story which we are developing into a movie. The children have been writing imaginative and personal stories. 

We are also looking at in-cooperating stories about the natural world and our focus will be on growing seeds. Next term the children may wish to write a story about a seed. In the next three weeks the children will be involved in observing and documenting how seeds grow.

Through the 'Seed Project' we will be exploring:-

·         The nature of living things

·         Sequencing the life pattern of plants

·         Building and extending student science capacity by introducing new words.

We started by reading the story The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle.

 We asked the children to tell us:-  How plants grow? and What do they need to grow? Their responses can be found in our neighbourhood.

The children started the process of growing seeds in our neighbourhood.

We needed a dish, cotton wool, seeds and water to start the process.

The children documented their observations

We are also conducting controlled experiments.

Please come in and have a look at our seeds.

Well-being in the Year One Neighbourhood

Over the past 5 weeks the children have been participating in weekly mediation session during well-being time. The meditation session are run through the Smiling Mind Education program. 

These session aim to develop the follow areas:

·  To provide  a preemptive and proactive tool to enhance mental health and well-being

·  To arm students with the skills to better manage stress and build resilience

·  To encourage participants to feel calm, clear and content.

If you would further information about the Smiling Mind Education Program, please refer to: http://smilingmind.com.au/