Welcome back to Term Three!

Welcome back to term three!

Welcome back to Term three! I hope you all had a lovely holiday and the students are feeling refreshed and renewed after their two week break!

What's On This Term?

This term we are looking at a variety of topics and basing these concepts around the children's interests and ideas. We will be asking the children what they would like to learn about  in regards to these topics with a question box at the back of our room. The children always come up with some great ideas to guide their own learning!

Our writing focus this term will look at Procedures as well as Information Reports. Our Maths focus this term will be money, 2D and 3D shapes, measurement, addition and subtraction word problems, fractions, revision of skip counting (2's, 5's, 10's), place value revision and odd and even numbers.

In our HASS subject we will have a focus on things from the past and how children's daily lives differ from those of their parent's or grandparent's childhoods. At the end of the term we are planning a special excursion to explore life in the olden days first hand.

In Science we will be exploring how materials can be used for different purposes and how they can change by either heating or cooling them. Get read for some super fun experiments this term!

In Visual Arts we will be learning about colour (primary colours and how they mix to form secondary colours). We will experiment with some colour mixing and have a go at creating artworks using complementary colours.

Targeting Mental Maths

Please continue to work with your child on each unit, giving them instant feedback by marking their work when they have finished is a wonderful way work with your child to see how they are going with their maths understanding. Please highlight or circle any questions that your child may have found a little tricky and I can write this down to review with them at a later date.

Mission Markets 

Our annual OLC Mission Markets-  celebrating Our Lady of the Cape Feast Day-  are fast approaching (Thursday 15^th August - Week 4). This year, both the Year One class will be running a popcorn stall. We will be asking for donations of bags of pop corn soon so keep an eye on the blog for details.  

Dates for Your Diary:
OLC Quiz Night: Sat 3rd August
Book Week Dress up : 23rd August
Jumps: 5th September
Year One Family Mass: Sat 7th of September
Photo Day: 12th and 13th of September
Throws: 17th September
Athletics Carnival: 19th September

If you have any questions or queries, please don't hesitate to email me.

I'm looking forward to a wonderful term!

Miss Prowse

Assembly Pictures

What a wonderful assembly! The children did such an amazing job of learning their lines, singing the songs and the costumes were outstanding! Thank you to all of those parents who put so much time into making your children look great!

Here are some pictures from the day!

Miss Prowse

Star Citizen for Appreciation

Congratulations to Lexi who was our Star Citizen for Appreciation. You are a super star Lexi!

Miss Prowse

Information for our Assembly

Good morning parents,

Just a quick reminder about our assembly tomorrow. If they children could come to school in their costumes, that would be very much appreciated. If the children could bring their sports uniform in a seperate bag to get changed into after the assembly, that would also be very helpful.

Bug Catchers

What a wonderful way to wrap our Science unit on mini-beasts! Thank you so much to all of our parent helpers, we would not have been able to get it done without you! More pictures and info to come!

Sickness

There have been a few children that have gone home sick with colds, vomiting or fevers. We are being very vigilant at school about washing hands, but if your child is sick the Health Departments requires a 24 hour quarantine period to prevent spread of germs. Hopefully we will hang in there for two more days!

Thank you for your ongoing support

Miss Prowse

PLD Spelling Review

It's that time of the year again where we are testing the children's spelling sounds to see what they have learnt since the beginning of the term. This Wednesday the children will be having their end of term spelling review. If you would like to practise some sound with your children, the table of sounds are below. Your child should know what group they are in, otherwise please email me if they are unsure.

If you have any questions, please let me know :)

Miss Prowse 

Cross Country Stars!

Despite being a wild, wet and windy day, I was so proud of all the children who participated in our Cross Country last Thursday! We all showed such amazing adversity even when faced with an 'extra lap' for the boys and some slippery conditions for the girls!

Congratulations to Jett, Keenan and Jobe for the boys amazing effort and to Sienna and Kate for the holding up the girls! You all did an amazing job!

Miss Prowse

Week 9 Merit Award winner

Congratulations to Ayva who was our week 9 Merit Award winner last week! You are a Year One Super Star!

Miss Prowse