Welcome back to term three!
Welcome back to Term three! I hope you all had a lovely holiday and the students are feeling refreshed and renewed after their two week break!
What's On This Term?
This term we are looking at a variety of topics and basing these concepts around the children's interests and ideas. We will be asking the children what they would like to learn about in regards to these topics with a question box at the back of our room. The children always come up with some great ideas to guide their own learning!
Our writing focus this term will look at Procedures as well as Information Reports. Our Maths focus this term will be money, 2D and 3D shapes, measurement, addition and subtraction word problems, fractions, revision of skip counting (2's, 5's, 10's), place value revision and odd and even numbers.
In our HASS subject we will have a focus on things from the past and how children's daily lives differ from those of their parent's or grandparent's childhoods. At the end of the term we are planning a special excursion to explore life in the olden days first hand.
In Science we will be exploring how materials can be used for different purposes and how they can change by either heating or cooling them. Get read for some super fun experiments this term!
In Visual Arts we will be learning about colour (primary colours and how they mix to form secondary colours). We will experiment with some colour mixing and have a go at creating artworks using complementary colours.
Targeting Mental Maths
Please continue to work with your child on each unit, giving them instant feedback by marking their work when they have finished is a wonderful way work with your child to see how they are going with their maths understanding. Please highlight or circle any questions that your child may have found a little tricky and I can write this down to review with them at a later date.
Mission Markets
Our annual OLC Mission Markets- celebrating Our Lady of the Cape Feast Day- are fast approaching (Thursday 15th August - Week 4). This year, both the Year One class will be running a popcorn stall. We will be asking for donations of bags of pop corn soon so keep an eye on the blog for details. Dates for Your Diary:
OLC Quiz Night: Sat 3rd August
Book Week Dress up : 23rd August
Jumps: 5th September
Year One Family Mass: Sat 7th of September
Photo Day: 12th and 13th of September
Throws: 17th September
Athletics Carnival: 19th September
If you have any questions or queries, please don't hesitate to email me.
I'm looking forward to a wonderful term!
Miss Prowse
