Keeping Safe lesson - Parts of the body

Good afternoon parents,

This Wednesday the children will be taking part in the Keeping Safe lesson about body parts. We will be reading a story called 'Everyone has a bottom' and emphasising the fact that all parts of their body are private. I understand that the children may laugh and giggle when we talk about the anatomical names, but this is important for every child to know.

Recent research shows that knowing the anatomically correct language terms enhances children’s body image, self-confidence, and openness. 

This is in conjunction with the Child Protection Curriculum which has been mandated in all schools in Western Australia.

Please find the lesson outline below and a link for the outline of the book if you feel you need to discuss this with your child after Wednesday.

Everyone has a bottom

If you have any questions or concerns, please email me. 

Thank you 

Miss Prowse 

Week 7 Merit Award winners

Congratulations to our week 7 merit award winners Jax, Zack and Violet! You are all Year One super stars!

Miss Prowse

Sight word review and end year results

Dear Parents,

Over the last few weeks of school, we will be consolidating the first 100 (and next 100 if your child is up to it) sight words. We have noticed that many children are not applying these learnt sight words in their writing correctly. We will be consolidating the sight word program from week 7 onwards and we will be sending home a copy of the words your child is not using correctly in their writing or has not retained.

We would encourage that you practise writing these in sentences over the holidays so your child can be best prepared to apply them into their writing.

Next year, depending on the number of words your child has retained, in Year Two, they may be starting on a different level of sight words. This is to ensure they are spelling the most common sight words correctly in context, so they can have continued success in their reading and writing.

We thank you for your ongoing support

Miss Prowse and Mrs Sherborne

We are Math Magicians!

In Maths we have been learning about patterning and skip counting and have been revising how to count in 2's, 5's and 10's. We have also been focusing on the collection and presentation of data as a graph.


Last week we had great fun using the iPads to take pictures of patterns around the classroom and make collages of the patterns we found!

Here are some photos of us having a great time exploring what patterns we could find!

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Gilpin

Bunnings comes to OLC

We were lucky enough to have the lovely Breeanna from Bunnings, Busselton to come and visit us today to make some wonderful Christmas craft for our end of year gift. The children absolutely loved piecing their gift together like a puzzle and attaching the various parts with the wood glue. It was lovely to see so many of the Year Ones using their team work skills to help one another balance their objects to piece their craft together. Job well done!

Breeanna also said there is a FREE Christmas workshop on the 5th of December from 5-7pm for the kids to come along and take part in some wonderful Christmas fun! If you are interested in attending, please contact Bunnings Busselton to reserve your spot!

A BIG thanks to Breeanna for coming out to OLC!

Miss Prowse

Castles Have Been Created!

Last Friday we were lucky enough to have so many parent helpers to assist us with constructing our Castles during Art. The children created cones with decorative paper to top their turrets, used scissors to cut 'battlement' edges into their castles, attached materials with PVA, masking tape and created drawbridges from string and cardboard. Some interesting features on our castles included a range of different sized towers, dungeons, portcullises, turrets and one castle even had a moat filled with pretend water. It was fantastic to see the Year Ones put their creative hats on to construct their own unique and inventive structures.

Thank you to all Year One parents for helping your children gather and collect various recycled materials from home. We had so many toilet rolls, shoeboxes, containers and other items that we put to good use. A big thanks to our wonderful parent helpers from Year 1S and Year 1P for making this activity possible.

Mrs Sherborne and Mrs Hanmer

STEM activity - A chair for Baby Bear

In Science we have been learning about how everyday materials can be changed in a variety of ways. We have explored that materials can be warmed, cooled, bent, stretched and twisted.

We have been planning our STEM project of making a chair for Baby Bear as Goldilocks broke his last one! We have been asked to design a new chair made only with newspaper and sticky tape.

We needed to work out:
- How we can change newspaper into the shape of a chair
- What actions we need to take to change the shape of the paper eg. roll, cut, fold, scrunch
- How the chair can hold the weight of a small bear.

The children loved working in teams of three to create their design.

This Friday we will be creating our chairs so we are asking for any newspaper that you have to be brought in for our creations! 

Thank you

Miss Prowse and Miss Gilpin

Star Citizen for Excellence

Congratulations to Lakey for being our first Star Citizen for Excellence! You are a true star citizen Lakey!

Miss Prowse

Year 1P Prayer Assembly

The children of Year 1P participated in their prayer assembly today and did a wonderful job of explaining the meaning of Advent and how we can prepare for Christmas and the coming of Jesus.

The children did a wonderful job of writing their own prayers of ways they can be kind and loving both at school and at home. We finished with an old favourite 'This little light of mine' and boy did they shine!

Thank you to the parents who practised parts with their children, we appreciate it :)

Miss Prowse and Miss Gilpin

Week 4 Merit award winners

Congratulations to Oscar and Maddy who were this weeks merit award winners. You are both Year One superstars!

Miss Prowse

Castle Construction

Next Friday 9th November we will be creating our very own castles during our Art lesson. We are still seeking recycled materials that will be useful for our castle construction. Here are some items that may be of use to us:

• Shoe boxes/other cardboard boxes
• Lace/interesting fabrics
• Paper towel rolls
• Decorative paper
• Cardboard coffee trays
• Pop sticks/toothpicks
• Anything else that you can think of!

If your child has items that they would like to use exclusively for their own castle please place these items in a carry bag with your child's name on it and bring into school over the next week.

We have plenty of turrets and decorations that the children will be able to add to their castles while they are constructing them at school. 

If you have any hot glue guns at home we would love to borrow them! We are also seeking some empty sauce bottles with 'squeezy' lids that we can use for PVA glue.
Here are a few ideas that we will look at in Art tomorrow.

  

Session times are from: 
10am-11am (1S)
11:30am-12:30pm (1P)
If you can assist with our Castle construction we would much appreciate the help during these sessions next Friday. Please email me on amy.sherborne@cewa.edu.au or come and let me know in the classroom if you can assist.

Thank you
Mrs Sherborne