Grandparents Day 2018

Grandparents Day was a huge success for Year 1P we had so many wonderful grandparents come in to celebrate this wonderful OLC tradition. The day started with a beautiful prayer service dedicated to our beautiful Grandparents. The slide show that Mrs. Meyer put together was absolutely stunning and I can definitely vouch for some tears eyes in the crowd - including my own! The Grandparents then enjoyed a delicious morning tea and came into the classroom to participate in some activities.

The children loved showing their work to their Grandparents, painting a picture with them, playing some Maths and sight words games and creating a pic collage of photos of them.  The smiles from both children and grandparents alike were a wonderful sight to see!

A great morning was had by all, below are some pictures from the day.

Thank you to those who provided some delicious morning tea and thank you again to the outstanding Grandparents!

Miss Prowse

Week 8 Merit Award winner

Congratulations to Scarlett who was this weeks Merit Award winner.

You are a Year One super star!

Miss Prowse

Year One Bug Catchers

Year One Bug Catchers: A Technology Design Project

On Friday morning after assembly, Year 1S and Year 1P tackled the challenge of creating their very own bug catchers. After weeks of planning and designing their own creations, the children were delighted to be able to finally put their ideas into action! We are very thankful for all of our hands on parent helpers who gave up part of their Friday to sticky tape, hot glue and assist with refining the Year 1's designs. The project would not have happened without you!

After lunch, the Year 1's set off on an expedition into the bush to find as many bugs as they could. We came across a number of bees, spiders ants, snails and a few VERY LARGE bull ant. We discussed how we need to be safe when hunting for bugs, as well as how we also have the option of setting our bugs free after viewing them in our bug catchers. We hope you all had a lovely weekend exploring, hunting and collecting bugs!

Thank you again for all of the donations of items. As always, the parents are so supportive of our teaching and learning program!

Miss Prowse

Week 8 Information

Dear Parents, 

The last two weeks of term are proving to be very busy and full of events! There was lots of important information in Friday's newsletter, so please take note of what's happening prior to the holidays.

Cross Country
A reminder that the children are asked to wear their coloured faction T-shirts for Cross Country on Thursday morning. Please refer to the newsletter and the email sent out today for further information on our whole school Cross Country event.

Refugee Rice Day
Many thanks to the parent helpers who have volunteered to cook and serve lunch on Refugee Rice Day. The children who are having rice are asked to bring in an empty lunch container from home to save on waste.

Bug Catchers
We have planned to make our bug Catchers this Friday between 11.20-12.30. The children have been busy collecting items as outlined in last week's blog post. We are still looking for parent helpers to make this activity possible and are happy to move the activity to straight after assembly if that would suit more people. Be prepared for lots cutting, gluing and taping!

Grandparents Day
A reminder that all of our lovely grandparents and great grandparents are invited to school next Monday for our annual 'Grandparents Day'. Please return the RSVP slips for Grandparents Day by the end of this week. Mrs Meyer is also putting together a slide show of our grandparents. Please email through your pictures to her on amie.meyer@cewa.edu.au .

Disco
Our school disco will be held in the hall this Friday evening. If you would like to purchase tickets, please refer to the flyer in the newsletter.

Have a great week!

Miss Prowse

Materials and helpers for bug catchers

Good evening parents,

Thank you for all those people who have brought in some materials for their bug catchers.

We are asking the children to bring in any materials that might be useful for the construction of their own design. Please talk to your child at home about what they would like to collect and bring into school by Friday 22nd June. Any materials that are specifically collected for your child’s own design should be placed in a plastic bag with their name on it. Any materials to be shared can be placed in a bag labelled shared materials.

Some useful materials may include:

• Clean empty jars or containers with lids
• PVC pipe/clear tubing
• Clear plastic milk bottles/juice containers
• Mesh/netting
• Pipe cleaners/string
• Rocks/stones
• Anything else you can think of!

We also require some helpers from 11.20 - 12.30 so if you were able to help construct our bug catchers, we would be very appreciative. Please email me if you can. 

Thank you for your ongoing support 

Miss Prowse 

Place Value fun in Year One!

During Math time last week, the Year One children learnt about the concept of Place Value.

This relates to the Year One curriculum outcome of :

Recognise, model, read, write and order numbers to at least 100. Locate these numbers on a number line. (ACMNA013)

The children found out that place value means the value of a digit within a number, for example we found out that the number 64 was made up of 6 tens and 4 ones. We even had some very clever people who made some numbers over 1000!

We explored this concept using online games, songs, manipulative materials and then attempted to consolidate our learning with some Mathmatics activities on the iPad.

Below are some photos of the children exploring numbers using MAB's (Multi-based Arithmic Blocks)  - the materials you might have used in your time at school! We also played some great place value games in our Math books and we loved expanding our numbers!

We have been learning this great place Value song in class (be careful it really gets in your head) and I said to the children that I would put it on the blog so they could show you.

If you would like to play some of the Place Value games at home, please click on the links below:

Place Value Fruit Splat

Interactive MAB’s

I hope you have had a lovely weekend and I will see you tomorrow.

Many thanks

Miss Prowse

Week 7 Merit Award winners

Congratulations to Lawson and Maddy who were this weeks Merit Award winners. You are both year one super stars!

Miss Prowse

Week 6 Merit Award winners

Congratulations to Violet and Xavier H who were this weeks Merit Award winners. You are both Year One super stars!

Miss Prowse

Week 7 Information

Bug Catchers

Over the past few weeks we have planned, designed and labelled a model for our very own bug catcher. The next step will be gathering materials that we need and writing a procedure to make our bug catcher. Over the next 2 weeks, we are asking the children to bring in any materials that might be useful for the construction of their own design. Please talk to your child at home about what they would like to collect and bring into school by Friday 22nd June. Any materials that are specifically collected for your child’s own design should be placed in a plastic bag with their name on it. Any materials to be shared can be placed in a bag labelled shared materials.

Some useful materials may include:

 

• Clean empty jars or containers with lids
• PVC pipe/clear tubing
• Clear plastic milk bottles/juice containers
• Mesh/netting
• Pipe cleaners/string
• Rocks/stones
• Anything else you can think of!

See example below:

 

 

 

 

 

We will be putting our designs together from 11:30am – 12:30pm on Friday 22nd June. During this time, we are seeking the expertise of a few parent helpers to assist us with construction. If you would like to come along and help please email me or let me know in the classroom.

Think Mentals

Please note that Unit Four in your child’s Think Mental's book is to be completed by next Friday 22nd June (Week 8). Thank you to parents for marking the work as you go and for giving your children feedback as they work through these tasks. From Term 3 onward we will be completing one unit per week.

Sight Words

Sight words remain as an important part of our homework program in Year One. We aim to test each child regularly on the retention (both reading and spelling) of their sight words. Each time your child is tested, we will send home a sheet that outlines words for revision. Please aim to keep up regular practice with these words. It has been so pleasing to see such improvement in the children's reading levels this term and it is really evident that many of the students are recognising their sight words due to continued practice at home and at school. Thank you for your support with this program.

Have a great week!

Miss Prowse

Week 9 Performance Assembly Information

Please have a read of the note that will be sent home in paper form today 

Have a great weekend!

Miss Prowse 

Friday 8th June, 2018

Dear Parents of Year 1P,

On Friday the 29^th of June (Week 9), the children in year 1P will be having their performance assembly. Within our assembly, we will be showing some of the things we have been learning about in class about Aboriginal Peoples and their culture. This will include us singing some songs and performing the story of ‘How the birds got their colours’.

 We have asked the children what their preferences were for parts and they were pulled out of a hat so everyone had a chance at getting a part they wanted. Below are parts of the children:

Part	Name	Costume
Little Dove	Imogen	Black tights, Black long sleeve shirt
Parrot	Daisy	Rainbow outfit (Red, Green, blue, orange, purple etc.)
Crow	Jax	All black – pants, shirt, socks etc. with a feather boa or black feathered wings
Coloured Birds	Xavier R - Red Maddy - Yellow Alexis - Red Lakey - Yellow Sofia - Blue Stellan - Brown Xavier H - Blue Hayden - Brown	Pants/skirt/dress/top of that colour and a feather boa of that colour to represent feathers ( We are trying to source the feather boas through school, but if you have one, we would love to use it)
Spotty/Stripy Birds	Scarlett – Spotty Elsie - Spotty Jamison - Stripy	Spotty or stripy outfits of any colour
Taba Naba Singers/Performers	Oliver Billie-Rose Violet Hugh	Free dress of Torres Strait Islander colours (blue, green and white)
Readers	James Zeph Max Lily-Eve Lawson Emily	Free dress of Aboriginal Australians or Torres Strait Islander colours

If the children could come to school dressed in their costumes and bring their sports uniform to change into, that would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your ongoing support and if you have any questions, please email me.

Miss Prowse (Year One Teacher)

Mrs Hughes (Education Assistant)

Star Citizen for Appreciation

Congratulations to Sofia for being the Star Citizen for Appreciation! You are a Year One superstar!

Miss Prowse

Tick tock goes the Year One clock!

We have has so much fun learning about time in Year One! We have participated in a variety of hands on activities which help us learn about both digital and analogue clocks. We have especially loved making times on the clock and learning that the big hand points to the minutes and the little hand points to the hours.

The children have played games, used mini clocks to make time and have used the 'telling time' app on the I Pads to explore how we can tell the time.

By the end of Year One, the children are expected to:

• Tell time to the half-hour(ACMMG020):  reading time on analogue and digital clocks and observing the characteristics of half-hour times

 Below are some pictures of the children learning and experimenting with time!

The children have also enjoyed playing on the interactive clock and participated in a variety of time games which you can access below:

Interactive Clock

Clock splat game

Telling the time with AM and PM

We have loved learning about time!

Miss Prowse