Week 2 Information

Dear Parents,

We have had a fantastic start to the term...the weather has been glorious and the students have come back focused and ready to work hard for our last term together.

Just a few notices for this week. 

Homework
Targeting Mental Maths: We are currently working on unit 19. We will continue to complete one unit per week next term, however if your child is a keen Mathematician they are able to pop onto Mathletics using their login in their Reading file. 

Reading: We will continue to send readers home every two days (on Monday and Wednesday) for nightly reading this term.

Change to Assembly Time for Term 4 

Just a reminder that we are trialing a new time for Assembly this term, beginning at 2.20pm. 

Grandparents Day 
One of our favourite days of the year! All grandparents are warmly invited to come and visit on Monday 28th October, please let them know if you haven't already! Further details will follow in the newsletter.

There is no assembly this week as the Bishop will be here to open and bless our new Year 5 and 6 building. You are most welcome to join us at 1.30pm for the ceremony. 

Wheelie, Walkie, Waste Free Wednesday's 

This wonderful initiative begins this Wednesday and will run for Week's 2 through to 5. There is a class challenge and I would love for our class to be the best in the school and see how many students we can get wheeling or walking. If we are the winners, we get to go for a class excursion anywhere in the Busselton region, a great prize indeed! If you are unable to wheel or walk, please make sure your child is coming with as much nude food (no packaging) as possible.

Have a lovely rest of your week! 

Miss Prowse 

Welcome back to Term 4!

Welcome back to another busy term in Year 1P...I absolutely can't believe it is our last term together...I am devastated! I have loved watching our little loves develop and mature as the year has progressed and I am so very proud of all of their hard work. I will be sad to say goodbye to them at the end of the year for sure!

Just a few things for this term...

Next week we welcome Mrs. Susan Radisich, a third year prac student from ECU who will be joining us for 5 weeks. She will be gradually increasing her teaching load through small group work and whole class teaching as the weeks progress under my supervision and this is a great opportunity for her to work with students and develop her teaching skills. Please come in and say hi! 

Year 1 Prayer Assembly 
Our assembly WAS scheduled for Week 2, but due to the new Year 5 and 6 buildings being open by Bishop Hollahan that afternoon, we will have to postpone to another date, please keep an eye on the blog for more information. 

Homework

Targeting Mental Maths: We will continue to complete one unit per week next term, however if your child is a keen Mathematician they are able to pop onto Mathletics using their login in their Reading file. 

Reading: We will continue to send readers home every two days for nightly reading this term.

Sight Words: The children will be tested early on in the term and we will continue to send home personal sight word lists throughout Term 4. Please watch the blog later this week for some important info about sight words when your child reaches past stage three words.

News

A copy of the News roster/groups will be given out this week. Another copy will be outside the classroom just in case :)

Change to Assembly Time for Term 4 

Just a reminder that we are trialing a new time for Assembly this term, beginning at 2.20pm. 

Grandparents Day 
One of our favourite days of the year! All grandparents are warmly invited to come and visit on Monday 28th October, please let them know if you haven't already! Further details will follow in the newsletter.

There is no assembly this week as the Year 6 students will have just returned from their Camp and many students will be making an early start off to Family Camp for the weekend!

Wheelie, Walkie, Waste Free Wednesday's 

These kick off next week and will run for Week's 2 through to 5. There is a class challenge and I would love for our class to be the best in the school and see how many students we can get wheeling or walking. If you are unable to wheel or walk, please make sure your child is coming with as much nude food (no packaging) as possible

A bit about our learning this term...

This term we will begin by focusing on the concept of Fairytales which will be mainly integrated into our English block in the morning. We will be looking at a variety of texts and using an array of comprehension strategies to show our understanding of the text.

Our writing focus will be  Persuasive letter writing and finishing off with a review of Narratives. 

 

Grammar and punctuation will be an important part of our writing program this term. We are learning how to edit and punctuation sentences with a focus on selecting vocabulary that will 'bump up our sentences'. We will revise capital letters, full stops and learning more about exclamation marks, apostrophes, question marks and quotation marks.

Our Math focus will be a revision of Addition and Subtraction strategies with a focus on using these to solve word problems. We will also be looking at data, place value, location and transformation, odd and even numbers, skip counting and patterning.

In HASS we will be looking at how we can change spaces within places and how they can be rearranged to suit different purposes and how we can care for these places. We will also be looking at the seasons of Australia and how they are connected to our Noognar seasons created by the Aboriginal People. 

In our Science unit we will be looking at the outcome of changes that occur in the sky and landscape and how these features help us with weather patterns and how things can change within our environment.

Phew...I think that's it! 

See you all soon! 
Miss Prowse

Our Spiny Leaf bugs need a home for the holidays!

If there is anyone in the class who will be based in Dunsborough over the holidays and would like a few visitors, we are looking for someone to care for Leaf girl and Stick girl (and friends).

They are very low maintenance and just require some new gum leaves every few days and a spray with the water spray bottle in the class. If you're feeling up to it, please email me and you can take them home in their tank after school tomorrow :)

Thank you

Miss Prowse

Practicum Teacher - Ms. Susan Radisich

Tomorrow we will have a visit from Ms. Susan Radisich who will be conducting her third year teaching practicum in our class from next term.

We are very lucky to have Susan in our class for 5 weeks beginning Monday 21st of October to Friday 21st of November and we are looking forward to sharing our classroom environment with her.

If you see her tomorrow, please give her a big OLC welcome.

Miss Prowse

More photos from Wonnerup House

Thank you Shannon Peterson for the delightful photographs taken at our Year One excursion to Wonnerup House. 

Thanks again to all the wonderful mums and dads that came along to help out on the day. 

2019 Sports Carnival

On Tuesday 24th of September, OLC held their annual faction carnival.  It was an absolutely beautiful spring day and the children came to school extremely excited to start the carnival!

The children looked outstanding in their coloured zinc, face paint and  coloured hairspray! The excitement continued as the children went into their faction bays and loved joining in with the older children cheering for the team.

I'm not sure, but I think the motivation of lollies from the faction captains might have made the children cheer extra hard. The running races were a great indication of just how fast our year ones are! They would definitely leave me behind in the 50m sprint!

The team games were a hit and I think one of the favourites of the day had to be 'stone, bridge, tree' and the flag relay!

Congratulations to our runner up champion boy Keenan and our champion boy Jobe and our runner up champion girls Kate and Zoe H and champion girl Ayva.

A big thank you to all the parents who helped with the event coordination, the set up and pack up and a HUGE thank you to Mrs. Sinclair for the wonderful day she put together.


Miss Prowse

Wonnerup house Excursion 2019

On Friday the 20th of September, the Year One children went on an excursion to Wonnerup house. The children were very excited to be in their 'Olden Day' clothes and loved comparing the clothing from the Olden Days to today. We hopped on the bus and although there were a lot of 'are we there yet?' questions, the children were excited to be going to visit 'the old place where you had to go work on the farm instead of go to school' - as quoted by one of the children.

We started the excursion with a 15 minute video about the history of Wonnerup House to which we found out that the whole community burnt down and had to be rebuilt! We also learnt about the Layman Family who lived at Wonnerup House amongst the beautiful Tuart Forest that surrounds the property.

We then set off in our groups with our wonderful parent helpers and started to explore the amazing grounds. We visited The Main House, The Black Smith shop, The Stables and The Dairy Kitchen . The children loved learning about all the olden day items like the wash board, the chamber pot, the Grandfather clock and many more!

One of the favourite places of the day was the old school house. I must say, I didn't mind getting into character! The children explored the old classroom and also the house where the teacher used to live. She must have had a LOT of hobbies to fill in her time!

We would like to thank our parent helpers from both Year One classes who made the day possible by meeting us at Wonnerup House and showing the children around the property. This excursion would not have been possible without you!

Miss Prowse