The Year 1P Face book page is also below should you wish to join.
Have a great Sunday night!
Miss Prowse
Year 1P
Sunday, 25 February 2018
Parent contact list and Face Book Page
Our lovely class reps have put a list for parents to fill out your details outside the classroom (on the information board) so if you could please fill this is as soon as possible, that would be wonderful.
The Year 1P Face book page is also below should you wish to join.
Have a great Sunday night!
Miss Prowse
The Year 1P Face book page is also below should you wish to join.
Have a great Sunday night!
Miss Prowse
Good Vibes in Science and our STEM project for Term One
Good Vibes experiment
As apart of our investigation into light and sound the year one children investigated how we can hear and feel sound. We investigated different things that can make sound eg. a hammer, a guitar and a splash. We then talked about how all these things can make vibrations which cause invisible sound waves to travel through the air.
As scientists, we decided to go one step further and see how these vibrations and sound waves could be seen by the human eye....using hundreds and thousands.
We made a drum like surface using a bowl and some cling wrap and then we predicted what we thought would happen if we hummed near the bowl and put some hundreds and thousands on top of the cling wrap. We had three predictions to choose from: nothing would happen, the hundreds and thousands would change colour or the hundreds and thousands would move and vibrate. It was very interesting to gather some of the students predictions.
We then got into groups of three and conducted our experiment and found that the hundreds and thousands could dance when we hummed near the bowl. The children loved finding out about vibrations and sound waves and were interested in finding out how sound reaches our ears.
If you'd like to view or conduct the experiment at home, please click on the link below for the video.
Seeing sound experiment
STEM Project (Friday Week 7)
Over the next two weeks the children will be presented with a problem that they have to solve duirng our Science time, please have a read of the brief below which I will be presenting to the children this week.
I have posted this project a little bit early so you can start collecting materials for your child's design (all help would be appreciated!). I will also be posting up a time for parents who would like to come in and help construct the sun chimes with the students.
Below are some of the examples that I will be showing them:
Thank you for your ongoing support!
Miss Prowse
As apart of our investigation into light and sound the year one children investigated how we can hear and feel sound. We investigated different things that can make sound eg. a hammer, a guitar and a splash. We then talked about how all these things can make vibrations which cause invisible sound waves to travel through the air.
As scientists, we decided to go one step further and see how these vibrations and sound waves could be seen by the human eye....using hundreds and thousands.
We made a drum like surface using a bowl and some cling wrap and then we predicted what we thought would happen if we hummed near the bowl and put some hundreds and thousands on top of the cling wrap. We had three predictions to choose from: nothing would happen, the hundreds and thousands would change colour or the hundreds and thousands would move and vibrate. It was very interesting to gather some of the students predictions.
We then got into groups of three and conducted our experiment and found that the hundreds and thousands could dance when we hummed near the bowl. The children loved finding out about vibrations and sound waves and were interested in finding out how sound reaches our ears.
If you'd like to view or conduct the experiment at home, please click on the link below for the video.
Seeing sound experiment
STEM Project (Friday Week 7)
Over the next two weeks the children will be presented with a problem that they have to solve duirng our Science time, please have a read of the brief below which I will be presenting to the children this week.
I have posted this project a little bit early so you can start collecting materials for your child's design (all help would be appreciated!). I will also be posting up a time for parents who would like to come in and help construct the sun chimes with the students.
Below are some of the examples that I will be showing them:
Thank you for your ongoing support!
Miss Prowse
OLC Opening Mass
On Friday morning the children from Years 1-6 walked down to Our Lady of the Souther Cross church to participate in our opening Mass to begin the school year. The theme of the Mass was love and how we can be more like Jesus through our actions. All of the children participated respectfully and reverently throughout the Mass with the help of our Year Five buddies. Here are some photos of the children with their buddies.
The church was filled with music for our final song OLC which everyone loved joining in the actions to.
Miss Prowse
Monday, 19 February 2018
A Full Week In Year One!
Wow, we have completed our first full week in the classroom! Lots happening in Year One with the commencement of Maths and Reading groups, as well as Art and Science when the children swap teachers on Friday mornings. Our ‘Play Projects’ are up and running on a Friday afternoon when we have a choice in our learning and an opportunity to use our creative licences. The children were having fun in some nature play with sticks and twine, imaginary play with our Kimochi Dolls and constructing from boxes as well as LEGO and Mobilo alongside the Pre-Primaries and Kindies. What a great buzz of learning happening in ECC! Some of our Play Projects are on display in the classroom for you to take a look at.
Here are some of the photos from the STEM circuits activity that was happening in Year 1P. James made a working circuit with a propellor...I can see a budding engineer!
Math Rotations
In class we have been focussing on numbers and number formation up to 100. We have been split into multi ability groups and have looked and worked with at different strategies for achieving the success criteria. We looked at how we can add numbers using manipulative materials, how we can form numbers correctly and how we can use a number line for skipping and jumping numbers. We have some very clever mathematicians in our class!
Homework
We begin today! Sight words, along with a home reader and you child’s Mathletics and Reading Eggs passwords will go home this week. We encourage the children to bring their homework folder to and from school every day and place it in the tub with the red or blue dot (depending on what coloured sticker they have on the front of their folder). Your child’s reading books will be exchanged by the EA’s on either a Mon/Wed or Tue/Thu basis.
Class Reps
Many thanks to our class rep volunteers for 2018 - Julia Thompson, Charlene Blechynden and Bec Hoar. As our P&F reps reiterated at Parent Night ‘many hands make light work’! Our reps have placed a family details sheet on the parent info board. You are invited to fill out your details to make it easier for our reps to contact you regarding any upcoming social gatherings or important information. Thanks ladies!
Observation Survey
Some standardised testing will begin this week and next week in Year One. The Observation Survey gives us valuable information about your child’s reading ability, writing vocabulary and phonics knowledge.
It is completed one on one with the teacher and during this time there will be a relief teacher in Year One.
Kiss and Drop Fridays
There was such an air of independence in our classrooms on Friday morning with both our parents and children making the most of Kiss and Drop morning! The children were as proud as punch to take ownership of their morning and come into the classroom independently. Thank you parents for supporting us with this.
Have a fantastic week!
Miss Prowse
Here are some of the photos from the STEM circuits activity that was happening in Year 1P. James made a working circuit with a propellor...I can see a budding engineer!
Math Rotations
In class we have been focussing on numbers and number formation up to 100. We have been split into multi ability groups and have looked and worked with at different strategies for achieving the success criteria. We looked at how we can add numbers using manipulative materials, how we can form numbers correctly and how we can use a number line for skipping and jumping numbers. We have some very clever mathematicians in our class!
Homework
We begin today! Sight words, along with a home reader and you child’s Mathletics and Reading Eggs passwords will go home this week. We encourage the children to bring their homework folder to and from school every day and place it in the tub with the red or blue dot (depending on what coloured sticker they have on the front of their folder). Your child’s reading books will be exchanged by the EA’s on either a Mon/Wed or Tue/Thu basis.
Class Reps
Many thanks to our class rep volunteers for 2018 - Julia Thompson, Charlene Blechynden and Bec Hoar. As our P&F reps reiterated at Parent Night ‘many hands make light work’! Our reps have placed a family details sheet on the parent info board. You are invited to fill out your details to make it easier for our reps to contact you regarding any upcoming social gatherings or important information. Thanks ladies!
Observation Survey
Some standardised testing will begin this week and next week in Year One. The Observation Survey gives us valuable information about your child’s reading ability, writing vocabulary and phonics knowledge.
It is completed one on one with the teacher and during this time there will be a relief teacher in Year One.
Kiss and Drop Fridays
There was such an air of independence in our classrooms on Friday morning with both our parents and children making the most of Kiss and Drop morning! The children were as proud as punch to take ownership of their morning and come into the classroom independently. Thank you parents for supporting us with this.
Have a fantastic week!
Miss Prowse
Sunday, 18 February 2018
Week 3 Merit Award winners
Congratulations to Max and Elsie who were this weeks Merit Award winners. You are both Year One super stars!
Miss Prowse
Miss Prowse
Investigating Sound and Light in Science!
We have had a fantastic start to our Science inquiry this term and the children have been very interested in learning about how sound and light is formed and how it travels and reaches the human body.
We began our investigation of where sound comes from and where around the school we can hear different sources of sound. We brainstormed what we knew about sound and what questions we had about sound which we found we had a lot - which is always a great start to our inquiry!
We assigned some children to be photographers and some to be sketch artists of what we found, I quickly learnt that the children had a very good ear for hearing lots of things including birds, Mr. Hogan on the lawnmower, the wind, leaves rustling along the ground and some children even swore they heard a ghost in the undercover area! The children loved sharing their findings on the ipads and we found answers to a few of our questions while we were exploring the school.
In our second lesson we talked about light and sources of light, the children loved finding light and dark places around the school and saw that the sun cast shadows on the bricks. The girls were quick to point this out! We found the lightest place was on the oval and the darkest place was in the hall behind the curtains, where no light could come in. We then went inside the classroom and experimented with refracting light. We used torches and found that when we used a glass and some water, we could make rainbows! The children took great delight in investigating different types of prisms and experimenting with light that could bend.
We are looking forward to discovering how sound waves reach our ears and how light enters our eye. Keep an eye on the blog for information about our STEM project of constructing a sun chime.
Miss Prowse
We began our investigation of where sound comes from and where around the school we can hear different sources of sound. We brainstormed what we knew about sound and what questions we had about sound which we found we had a lot - which is always a great start to our inquiry!
We assigned some children to be photographers and some to be sketch artists of what we found, I quickly learnt that the children had a very good ear for hearing lots of things including birds, Mr. Hogan on the lawnmower, the wind, leaves rustling along the ground and some children even swore they heard a ghost in the undercover area! The children loved sharing their findings on the ipads and we found answers to a few of our questions while we were exploring the school.
In our second lesson we talked about light and sources of light, the children loved finding light and dark places around the school and saw that the sun cast shadows on the bricks. The girls were quick to point this out! We found the lightest place was on the oval and the darkest place was in the hall behind the curtains, where no light could come in. We then went inside the classroom and experimented with refracting light. We used torches and found that when we used a glass and some water, we could make rainbows! The children took great delight in investigating different types of prisms and experimenting with light that could bend.
We are looking forward to discovering how sound waves reach our ears and how light enters our eye. Keep an eye on the blog for information about our STEM project of constructing a sun chime.
Miss Prowse
Tuesday, 13 February 2018
Parent Night Info
Thank you to all those parents who could make it last night. We hope that we have provided you with the information to make your child's time in Year One, one to remember!
If you weren't able to make it, please click on the link below which has our parent night slide show attached and if you require any further information, please email me. I will also send home your parent night pack with information for the coming year.
If you could please bring back the Early Childhood survey and the parent/Grandparent survey by Monday 18th of Feburary, that would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you and have a lovely night.
Miss Prowse
Year One Parent Night Slide Show
If you weren't able to make it, please click on the link below which has our parent night slide show attached and if you require any further information, please email me. I will also send home your parent night pack with information for the coming year.
If you could please bring back the Early Childhood survey and the parent/Grandparent survey by Monday 18th of Feburary, that would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you and have a lovely night.
Miss Prowse
Year One Parent Night Slide Show
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