See you all then!
Miss Prowse
Year 1P
Thursday, 29 October 2015
Boardies Day Tomorrow
Just a reminder that it will be boardies day tomorrow! Please come in your best boardies for a gold coin donation which will go towards the surf life saving clubs in the South West.
See you all then!
Miss Prowse
See you all then!
Miss Prowse
Board Bean Picking in the Food Garden!
Today the Year One students participated in the final activity of our OLC Food Garden. We were very excited to see how our little seeds had transformed into HUGE broad bean plants that now had their own pods hanging off them!
As a class, we looked at the broad bean life cycle and ordered some pictures to reflect on what our seeds started as and how over the months they have grown to now give us seeds for planting in next years crop! Mrs. Van Es and Mrs. Kerr had some wonderful facts about broad beans and how they are one of the oldest plants in the world! We were amazed!
We divided ourselves into two groups - one team to pick the beans from the plants and another to split the beans to get the beans from the pods.
The children were so engaged in picking the produce that they had grown themselves! Cooper showed us how to split the beans as he had done it on his Nona's farm before.
We found some very big beans...almost as big as Jye's head!
We found a few slimy friends in our garden too!
The children loved opening the beans and counting how many beans they had inside. We found one with seven beans inside!
After we picked all the beans from our plants, we went back inside and had a taste of the broad beans...some people even had some for their sip and crunch!
To follow on from our bean activity - we integrated this into our literacy session by creating a packet of 'magic' beans just like the beans from Jack and the Beanstalk. The children loved designing their packet, they began engaging in conversation about where their magic beans would lead to! It was a great link to our study of fairy tales!
We found out some wonderful facts about how to care for our broad beans below:
What time of year do I sow my broad beans?
March to June
Where should I sow my broad beans?
In a sunny location, sheltered from strong winds
How deep should I sow my broad beans?
5cm deep
How far apart should I sow my broad beans?
15 -20cm apart
When can I eat my broad beans?
Young pods 5 to 7.5cm long can be harvested and eaten whole, or leave until the pods are full size and shell pods for the seeds.
A BIG thank you to Alisa Allison for co-ordinating the fabulous OLC Food Garden and to Mrs. Kerr and Mrs. Van Es for all your wonderful help today!
All the children had a great day of learning from our wonderful food garden!
Miss Prowse
As a class, we looked at the broad bean life cycle and ordered some pictures to reflect on what our seeds started as and how over the months they have grown to now give us seeds for planting in next years crop! Mrs. Van Es and Mrs. Kerr had some wonderful facts about broad beans and how they are one of the oldest plants in the world! We were amazed!
We divided ourselves into two groups - one team to pick the beans from the plants and another to split the beans to get the beans from the pods.
The children were so engaged in picking the produce that they had grown themselves! Cooper showed us how to split the beans as he had done it on his Nona's farm before.
We found some very big beans...almost as big as Jye's head!
We found a few slimy friends in our garden too!
The children loved opening the beans and counting how many beans they had inside. We found one with seven beans inside!
After we picked all the beans from our plants, we went back inside and had a taste of the broad beans...some people even had some for their sip and crunch!
To follow on from our bean activity - we integrated this into our literacy session by creating a packet of 'magic' beans just like the beans from Jack and the Beanstalk. The children loved designing their packet, they began engaging in conversation about where their magic beans would lead to! It was a great link to our study of fairy tales!
We found out some wonderful facts about how to care for our broad beans below:
What time of year do I sow my broad beans?
March to June
Where should I sow my broad beans?
In a sunny location, sheltered from strong winds
How deep should I sow my broad beans?
5cm deep
How far apart should I sow my broad beans?
15 -20cm apart
When can I eat my broad beans?
Young pods 5 to 7.5cm long can be harvested and eaten whole, or leave until the pods are full size and shell pods for the seeds.
A BIG thank you to Alisa Allison for co-ordinating the fabulous OLC Food Garden and to Mrs. Kerr and Mrs. Van Es for all your wonderful help today!
All the children had a great day of learning from our wonderful food garden!
Miss Prowse
Week 2 Merit Award winners
Sorry for the late post!
A huge congratulations to Oliver Darlington and Ella Foy for their wonderful efforts in receiving a Merit Award last week! Keep up the great work superstars!
Miss Prowse
A huge congratulations to Oliver Darlington and Ella Foy for their wonderful efforts in receiving a Merit Award last week! Keep up the great work superstars!
Miss Prowse
Thursday, 22 October 2015
Save the date....Year One Prayer Assembly
Good afternoon parents,
This is just a note to let you know that the Year One children will be holding a prayer assembly next Friday the 30th of October and we would love it if you were able to make it!
Hope to see you there!
Miss Prowse
This is just a note to let you know that the Year One children will be holding a prayer assembly next Friday the 30th of October and we would love it if you were able to make it!
Hope to see you there!
Miss Prowse
Wednesday, 21 October 2015
Spaghetti Science!
This term in Science we are learning about materials and how different objects can be physically changed through actions such as bending, stretching and twisting. Today we investigated the material properties of something that was slimy, sticky, bendy, curly and squishy! It was...... cooked spaghetti!
This related to the Year One Chemical Science outcome of:
Everyday materials can be physically changed in a variety of ways (ACSSU018)
The children were very excited for their investigation about the properties of spaghetti.
We introduced the investigation with a song by Peter Combe - Spaghetti Bolognese (one of my favourites as a child!) and the children got to see how the spaghetti was cooked.
We then got Hannah and Toby to come up the front and using their senses, describe the spaghetti for the class. We came up with some wonderful adjectives to describe our spaghetti!
After all of the children had seen how the spaghetti changed, we then decided to integrate our Art and Science skills together to make a spaghetti hair picture!
Along with our picture, the children had to complete a labelled diagram to show their understanding.
The children loved drawing pictures of themselves and then manipulating the bendy, curly, stretchy, slippery spaghetti to finish off their master piece! The children found out later the the spaghetti didn't need any glue to make it stick to their pictures because the materials that it was made of, stuck to the page!
We loved getting our hands dirty in Science!
Miss Prowse
This related to the Year One Chemical Science outcome of:
Everyday materials can be physically changed in a variety of ways (ACSSU018)
The children were very excited for their investigation about the properties of spaghetti.
We introduced the investigation with a song by Peter Combe - Spaghetti Bolognese (one of my favourites as a child!) and the children got to see how the spaghetti was cooked.
We then got Hannah and Toby to come up the front and using their senses, describe the spaghetti for the class. We came up with some wonderful adjectives to describe our spaghetti!
After all of the children had seen how the spaghetti changed, we then decided to integrate our Art and Science skills together to make a spaghetti hair picture!
The children loved drawing pictures of themselves and then manipulating the bendy, curly, stretchy, slippery spaghetti to finish off their master piece! The children found out later the the spaghetti didn't need any glue to make it stick to their pictures because the materials that it was made of, stuck to the page!
We loved getting our hands dirty in Science!
Miss Prowse
Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Sports Carnival for 2015
On Thursday 24th of September, OLC had it's annual sports carnival. When the children arrived at school, they were ready to run - some fancy face paint made for a great start to our day.
It was a wonderful day with the sun shining down on us just as we started heading down to the oval.
The Year One's were so excited and could not contain our excitement as we went into our faction bays.
We participated in a variety of team games and worked well with the Year Two's to compete for the winning first sticker! I think the face paint made the children run extra fast!
They looked wonderful in their faction shirts and I could see a few lollies being handed out by the faction captains for the best cheering people!
Well done to our runner up champion boy Cooper and our joint champion boys Banjo and Remy!
Also to our runner up champion girls Hannah and Ella and our champion girls Ruby and Saffi!
It was a fantastic day at the sports carnival!
Miss Prowse
It was a wonderful day with the sun shining down on us just as we started heading down to the oval.
The Year One's were so excited and could not contain our excitement as we went into our faction bays.
We participated in a variety of team games and worked well with the Year Two's to compete for the winning first sticker! I think the face paint made the children run extra fast!
They looked wonderful in their faction shirts and I could see a few lollies being handed out by the faction captains for the best cheering people!
Well done to our runner up champion boy Cooper and our joint champion boys Banjo and Remy!
Also to our runner up champion girls Hannah and Ella and our champion girls Ruby and Saffi!
It was a fantastic day at the sports carnival!
Miss Prowse
Welcome to Term Four!
Good afternoon parents,
I cannot believe that we are already in Term 4! I was looking through many of the children's books over the holidays and was astounded at all of the progress that all of your beautiful children have made! I am very reluctant to let them go in another 9 weeks!
This term our writing focus is Narratives and exploring the structure of narratives though the wonderful world of fairy tales. We will be reading a new book each week using a variety of comprehension strategies throughout with the end result being that the children write their own fairytale narrative a their end of year assessment piece. If you have any fairy tale resources you would like to bring in for our unit, we would love to see them!
We will also be exploring the structure of procedures and how they can be used in everyday life. With Mrs. Keast's cooking abilities (not my own) we will be making some delicious treats leading into Christmas!
Thank you for your on going support
Miss Prowse
I cannot believe that we are already in Term 4! I was looking through many of the children's books over the holidays and was astounded at all of the progress that all of your beautiful children have made! I am very reluctant to let them go in another 9 weeks!
This term our writing focus is Narratives and exploring the structure of narratives though the wonderful world of fairy tales. We will be reading a new book each week using a variety of comprehension strategies throughout with the end result being that the children write their own fairytale narrative a their end of year assessment piece. If you have any fairy tale resources you would like to bring in for our unit, we would love to see them!
We will also be exploring the structure of procedures and how they can be used in everyday life. With Mrs. Keast's cooking abilities (not my own) we will be making some delicious treats leading into Christmas!
Absentee Notes
Over the next couple of days, I will be sending home some absentee notes for you to fill in. Throughout the holidays I allocated all of the notes I had from you all which indicate when your child was absent and logged them into the computer. I have a few dates that I did not receive notes for or have been lost in transition. If you could please fill these notes out with either (sick, not well, family matter, holiday etc) that would be extremely helpful for my records.Thank you for your on going support
Miss Prowse
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