Welcome to Week 5!
The Year One children have had a wonderful start to the school year. They have settled into the class routines and enjoyed participating in specialist classes. In our classroom, the children are learning how to work collaboratively in groups and each week are learning new and exciting things about their peers.
Parent Information Evening
Thank you to all the parents for attending the Parent Information Evening. I hope you gained a better understanding of our routines, classroom management, my expectations and school policies. If you were unable to attend and wish to discuss the information in person with me, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Special Activities
Drop Everything and Talk
During class we are been focusing on our speaking and listening skills. Every week we focus on building our confidence in a group environment with the whole school initiative of Drop Everything and Talk.
3 About Me
This week we will be completing our first independent speaking and listening task with an oral presentation to our class. On Wednesday we will be sending home a ‘3 About Me’ bag. We would like to ask parents to help their children choose 3 objects from home that they can use to describe themselves to the class. When they are choosing their objects please make sure:
1. All 3 objects fit inside this bag.
2. All 3 objects are appropriate for school and not very valuable.
3. All 3 objects are important to them.
After they have chosen their objects, they may wish to decorate the bag. Please bring the bag and the objects to school to share with the class.
Learning Outcomes
In the classroom, children are continuing to focus on their learning outcomes for Term 1 and build upon their knowledge. At present we are learning to:
English
- Identify constant digraphs, which are two letters coming together to make one sound.
- Identify nouns and name examples
- Use full stops, capital letters and question marks appropriately.
- Recognise words beginning with sh, ch and th.
- Understand the meaning of words in sentences.
- Write letters with the correct formation and size.
Mathematics
- Accurately use the five counting principles.
- Read, write and order numbers to 100.
- Subitise collections up to 15.
- Orally count starting from 0 by 2’s, 5’s, 10’s to 100.
- Read the word numerals for 1 to 10.
- Read and understand basic facts to 10 (addition).
- Represent and solve simple addition word problems to 10 using concrete materials, illustrations, counting on and counting back, partitioning and rearranging parts.
Geography
- Understand our place in the world and identify the Country, State and City in which we live.
Science
- Understanding the different seasons and identify weather patterns associated with these seasons.
Health
- Hold an adult’s hand when walking near traffic and while crossing the road.
- Identify the steps for crossing the road:
1. STOP at least one step back from the kerb or edge of the road.
2. LOOK in all directions for approaching traffic (left, right, front and back).
3. LISTEN in all directions for sounds of approaching traffic.
4. THINK before deciding if it is safe to cross.
- Recognise safe places to cross the road (straight stretches of road, away from corners and roundabouts, not on a hill, and at a crosswalk or traffic signals with pedestrian lights).
Technology
- Identify the different components of computers/ laptops and their uses.
- Identify how to turn on the computer/ laptop and log in.
- Recognise software such as Microsoft Office and how to open a word document.
Thank you
Thank you very much for your wonderful support over the last few weeks. If you have any
questions or would like to chat, please come and see me.
Kind regards
Mrs Beste
