Welcome back to Term 2. I hope you have had a very restful and relaxing holiday and enjoyed some of this stunning weather! After two weeks off, I'm sure the children will be ready to get back into it!
This term we have a focus on Mini beasts in Science, Aboriginal Culture and places of significance in our local environment in our HASS and Art units. We will also be looking at ANZAC day and how the importance of this day is recognised in our history.
We will also be looking at the narrative writing structure, the report writing structure and using the Talk 4 Writing Program to help the children learn these writing concepts. In Maths, we will be exploring the concepts of money, skip counting, the relationship between addition and subtraction, time and chance of events occurring.
We will also send home a news roster for this term, however, news groups have not changed. News will begin on Monday week 2.
Casuals for Catholic Day
A reminder that this Friday the 3rd of May is our Casuals for Catholics day where the children may wear free dress for a gold coin donation. This donation will be going towards helping families within the Bunbury diocese. Hopefully some of the children will be sporting their football colours for a big win this weekend...GO the Dockers...and I suppose... the Eagles too.
Targeting Mental maths book
The children are very excited to be starting their Targeting Mental Math book NEXT week (week 2) which was purchased at the beginning of the year.
Mental maths such as addition and subtraction, counting on, sequencing of numbers and number recognition are some of the concepts that we have covered in class. These will be reinforced in our Targeting Mental Maths book that will help your child gain confidence and apply mathematical concepts in a fun and supportive way. Please be aware that book is seen as a revision of concepts learnt in pre-primary, so it should be very achievable for them to complete at home.
In supporting our Math program in class, we would like for your child to complete one unit over one week. When completing questions with your child, we would ask that you support them by reading questions if necessary and marking the questions to give your child instant feedback on how they went and writing their score at the bottom of the page.
An example of one unit
Please do not spend more than 10 minutes at a time completing these activities and make it a part of your child's reading and sight word routine.
At the end of the week, the books will be collected by myself and checked to make sure your child understands the concepts covered. We ask that your child does not complete more than one unit a week as to ensure we can review these concepts in class if necessary.
Unit One will be due at the end of week 2 (Friday 10th May)
If you have any questions or concerns, please email me.
UR STRONG Friendology 101 JR
This is the wonderful friendship and social emotional program that we will be continuing this term to support the children in helping them make better friends and strengthen and foster healthy relationships.
Within the program the children may be starting to use the language of UR Strong: Friendology including: 'Friendship fire', 'Talk it out', 'Quick comebacks', 'Mean on purpose', 'healthy and unhealthy friendships' and the 'Friend-o-cycle'. We will be providing some information to parents on the blog as we complete the lessons of the program.
Parent Roster
As we often have double parent help across the two year one classes, Mrs. Birch and myself have decided that we will have one central parent roster for BOTH classes that will be located outside on the pin up board. Parent roster will start in week 2 and will run from 8.45-11.00am. I ask that you only put one name in each of the spaces and you only put your name down once as there were some parents who missed out last term.
If you have any questions please email me.
Thank you for your ongoing support
Miss Prowse
