Have a great spring break!

Reminder: 2.30 pm finish for the last day of term 3

We hope that you all have a safe and relaxing break.  Take care and we look forward to see you soon.

Team One Neighbourhood

Attention Required: Thank you and Reminders

THANK YOU
Firstly we would like to thank all the people who brought in tissue boxes and shoe boxes. You have helped our noses and our inquiry :)

REMINDERS
Secondly a reminder that the green forms for LIFE EDUCATION VAN notices need to be brought in ASAP as this incursion will happen in week 1 of Term 4.

Also if you could have your children bring in a plastic/calico/shopping bag on Thursday to help with taking work home from the Term.

           


Thank you,
Year 1 Team

New Lunch Order Price List

LUNCH ORDERS Updated Menu – Eff 5th OCT, 2015					North Carlton Food                   577 Lygon Street,                   CARLTON NORTH 3054
hot food
Gourmet Beef Sausage Roll	$3.90		Roasted  Vegetable Pastie				$5.30
Spinach & Ricotta Roll	$4.00		Shepherd’s Pie				$5.30
Aussie Pure Beef Pie	$5.30		Thai Chicken Pie				$5.30
Moroccan Lamb Pie	$5.30		Chicken & Mushroom Pie				$5.30
Butter Chicken Pie	$5.30		Roast Lamb & Vegetable Pie				$5.30
Steamed Shanghai Pork Bun	$2.50		Large South Melbourne Dim Sim				$2.00
Hot Dog (with cheese – 50c extra)	$3.30		Sauce Sachet				20c
SANDWICHES (ROLLS 70c EXTRA)
Salad (Lettuce, Beetroot, Tomato, Carrot & Cheese)							$4.20
Leg Ham (or Salami) with Cheese, Tomato & Lettuce							$4.20
Chicken salad roll							$5.50
Salmon							$5.50
Egg, Cheese, Carrot							$4.20
Tuna & Lettuce							$4.20
Vegemite Sandwich							$1.30
Extra – Mustard, vegemite etc							60c
CROISSANTS
Ham, Cheese & Tomato		$4.70		Tomato & Cheese		$4.30
Ham & Cheese		$4.50		Jam		$4.00
CAKES, SNACKS AND DRINKS
Vanilla Slice, Custard Tart, Lamington, Hedgehog		$3.40		Yoghurt (175g 99% fat free – strawberry, peach, fruit)			$2.20
Large Muffin		$2.90		Big M – 300ml (Strawberry, Banana, Chocolate)			$2.80
Cake – Carrot or Banana		$2.80		250ml tetra-pak Juice (Apple, orange, Multi-V)			$2.80
Donut		$1.90		Primas			$1.50

Shoe boxes needed

Dear parents / carers,

We are currently working on mapping in mathematics and during Inquiry Learning we are asking the children to do one of three things:

1. Create a neighbourhood 3D map
2. Create a 3D diorama of their bedroom
3. Create a 3D diorama for a doll's or super hero's bedroom


We are in desperate need of shoe boxes.  If you have a spare shoe box at home could you please send it to school.

Thank you
Year one team

ATTENTION REQUIRED: Life Education Van Notice

Dear Parents/Carers,

The Life Education program offers students a fun and engaging way to explore a range of well being issues such as health and personal safety and making responsible choices. The notices have been sent home today (Friday 11th September). This incursion will run on the 1st week of Term 4. Please bring your signed form back and hand it to your home group teacher as soon as possible.

Thank You,
Year 1 Team

What’s Happening in Week 10

Inquiry learning experiences: 

"How messages can be conveyed through stories" 

Students can engage in the following provocations:

• ·       Cultural Stories – Listening Posts, re-telling stories (through creating comic strips, picture books, story books) and recording and creating their own listening post, engaging in readers theatre plays, creating masks and costumes to embody the characters within the plays.
• ·       The Seed Story – Writing stories about seeds, researching science facts about plants and creating botanical drawings.
• ·        World Stories - Students are beginning to write reports on different countries they are interested in. As a group, the children developed a list of questions they would like answered about their countries, such as ‘How do you say ‘hello’ in my country’s language? What are some famous animals from my country?

Numeracy learning experiences: 
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.

We have been focusing on consolidating different ways to make 10 and 20 (e.g. 5 + 5 = 10, so does 8+2) and consolidating counting on from the higher number (e.g. 10, 11, 12, 13…)

Literacy learning experiences: 

• ·        Guided Reading
• ·        Literature Study – Cultural stories: Focus Aesop fables
• ·        Independent Literature Study – Engaging in Reading Response experiences
• ·        Shared Reading– Procedural Texts – Engaging in writing independent procedural text
• ·        Writing Target – Creative Solutions in Storytelling

Week Ahead

Monday 
Inquiry (9-11am & 12-2pm - Parent helpers welcome)
Visual Art (All home groups)

Tuesday
Inquiry (9-11am & 12-2pm - Parent helpers welcome)

Wednesday
Inquiry (9-11am & 12-2pm - Parent helpers welcome)

Thursday
Inquiry (12-2pm - Parent helpers welcome)

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

Friday 
Inquiry (9-11am - 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 they are to be picked up from the Year One Neighbourhood.

Creating a Mural – The seed story

As part of our focus on how Messages can be relayed and received through different forms of expression, we are exploring how stories can be expressed through pictures. We started with the quote ‘A picture tells a thousand words’ by Arthur Brisbane 1911.  As part of the children’s investigations into seeds, we are creating murals to tell ‘The Seed Story’.  The children started by making observational drawings of natural objects using coloured pencils, leaf rubbings using pastels, leaf drawings using black pens and painting natural objects using water colour.  The children also collected natural objects, created a classification chart and another chart the children researched facts about natural objects.  We used a combination of all the learning experiences to create a mural.  The mural tells the cycle of the seed, the seasons and includes all the research from the facts chart.

  

What’s Happening in Week 9

Inquiry learning experiences: 

"How messages can be conveyed through stories" 

Students can engage in the following provocations:

•        Cultural Stories – Listening Posts, re-telling stories (through creating comic strips, picture books, story books) and recording and creating their own listening post, engaging in readers theatre plays, creating masks and costumes to embody the characters within the plays.
•         The Seed Story – Observation, classification and documentation of natural objects, creating a mural – linking into nature stories, researching science facts about plants and creating botanical drawings.
•         World Stories – Finding places using Google Earth and then writing and drawing about a favourite place which has been found. Then moving towards writing a report on a particular country using factual information.
•        Year 1 Movie – Using Audacity to record your voice practicing the movie script and using mood and emotion to creating music for the movie using Garageband.

Numeracy learning experiences: 
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.
•         Counting On – using ten frames to count on from a particular number (e.g. 3 and 5 more make 8) and specifically using them to count on from larger numbers (e.g. 9 and 3 more is 12).
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Literacy learning experiences: 

•         Guided Reading
•         Literature Study – Cultural stories: Focus Aesop fables
•         Independent Literature Study – Engaging in Reading Response experiences
•         Shared Reading – Procedural Text ‘How to make a Mask’
•         Writing Target – Logical Problems in Storytelling
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Week Ahead

Monday 
Inquiry (9-11am & 12-2pm - Parent helpers welcome)
Visual Art (All home groups)

Tuesday
Inquiry (9-11am & 12-2pm - Parent helpers welcome)

Wednesday
Inquiry (9-11am & 12-2pm - Parent helpers welcome)

Thursday
Inquiry (12-2pm - Parent helpers welcome)

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

Friday 
Inquiry (9-11am - 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.

Tissues Please!

Spring is here but Winter refuses to leave.

We have had many children absent because of the unfortunate weather.  Colds and running noses are the order of the day and we are running low on tissue boxes.  We would appreciate if families could donating a tissue box to cover us for the remaining of the year. 

Thank you

Year one team

Book Week Costumes! Books Light Up Our World!

It was delightful to see the children turn up as a book character during Book Week. They enjoyed listening to many stories throughout the week and sharing a book with another child from year one and two. Here are some photos...