Good evening parents,
Thank you for all of those people who made sure their children handed in and completed the first unit of their Think Mental Math books on Friday. If for some reason they did not get to me by last Friday, could you please hand them in ASAP.
It was great to see all of the children's math understanding represented in their Think Mental's Math book. Some children also completed the second unit with great eagerness. However I would like to ensure the concepts are taught adequately in class so please refrain from letting your child complete more than the set amount.
It's not very often the teacher has to ask children to stop doing homework :)
This next fortnight (Weeks 4 and 5) the children are required to complete Unit 2 ONLY. It will be due back to class on Friday 27th of May.
In conjunction with the Think Mental Math books, the children are also encouraged to complete:
- Reading every night - to help their fluency and comprehension
- Sight words - to be able to both read and spell them
- Mathletics tasks - set according to the concept we are learning
- Reading Eggs activities - set in relation to their reading level and spelling group
We are learning lots in Year One and we thank you for your ongoing support!
Miss Prowse
Year 1P
Sunday, 15 May 2016
Thursday, 12 May 2016
Week 3 Merit Award Winners
Congratulations to Azzurra, Jaz and Georgie for being this weeks Merit Award winners. You are all year one super stars!
Miss Prowse
Miss Prowse
Think Mental Math Books Due
Dear Parents,
This is just a friendly reminder that the children's Think Mental Math books are due in tomorrow.
Thank you to all those people who have handed in their books early.
Please make sure your child has completed unit 1 (pages 4-6) and it has been marked with a positive comment to say how proud you are!
The children have been very excited to complete their Math 'home work' and we are looking forward to seeing how they went!
See you tomorrow
Miss Prowse
This is just a friendly reminder that the children's Think Mental Math books are due in tomorrow.
Thank you to all those people who have handed in their books early.
Please make sure your child has completed unit 1 (pages 4-6) and it has been marked with a positive comment to say how proud you are!
The children have been very excited to complete their Math 'home work' and we are looking forward to seeing how they went!
See you tomorrow
Miss Prowse
Sunday, 8 May 2016
Camp Fun Run
On Friday afternoon, the whole school participated in the Camp Fun Run! We were extremely excited to get started and had our water bottles at the ready. We were lucky that the rain held out for us and we were able to have a wonderful run.
We each had a stamp chart which we got stamped after every lap and we couldn't imagine that some people would reach 34 laps! We grooved along to some great music and at the end got a wonderful icy pole from the P and F.
A big thank you to Sally Gray, Peter McClenaughan and Jodie Spencer who were our expert stampers during the event.
We had a wonderful time raising money for our Year Six students.
If you have not already, could you please bring in your Fun Run money and form. If you have misplaced your form, please head into the office to grab another one.
Thank you for your ongoing support
Miss Prowse
We each had a stamp chart which we got stamped after every lap and we couldn't imagine that some people would reach 34 laps! We grooved along to some great music and at the end got a wonderful icy pole from the P and F.
A big thank you to Sally Gray, Peter McClenaughan and Jodie Spencer who were our expert stampers during the event.
We had a wonderful time raising money for our Year Six students.
If you have not already, could you please bring in your Fun Run money and form. If you have misplaced your form, please head into the office to grab another one.
Thank you for your ongoing support
Miss Prowse
Week 2 Merit Award Winners
Congratulations to Holly K and Jasper for being this week Merit Award winners! Keep up the outstanding work and well done to these two super stars!
Miss Prowse
Miss Prowse
Monday, 2 May 2016
Important information for Term 2
Dear Parents,
Just a few quick reminders of some important dates throughout Term 2.
The Camp Fun Run is this Friday. It begins at 1.30pm and will go for approximately 45mins-1 hour. If there are any parents that would like to help volunteer on the day stickering/stamping children from our class as they complete the laps, could you please let me know ASAP via email or in person.
Pupil Free Day is in week 5 (Monday the 23rd of May) as we have a Staff Professional Development day.
Year 1P Performance Assembly will be moved from week 4 due to the Year 5/6 children being on camp so will now be scheduled for Friday 27th May. Please put this date in your diaries as we would love to show you some of the learning we have been doing this year.
The Public Holiday WA Day will be on Monday Week 7 (June 6th) so there will be no school on this day also.
Grandparents day will be on Wednesday the 29th of June. We would love to see as many Grandparents at school as possible as it is always a very special time for them to share with their grandchildren. More information will be given closer to the date but please write this date down in your diary!
The parent roster has gone up outside our classroom this week and we would love to see you for our Literacy block!
We are also trying to get our Food Garden up and running however, it needs a de-clutter and a clean up so if any parents have a green thumb that would like to help out, we would love to have you on board. Please email me or see me personally if you are able to help out with this wonderful community project!
Thank you for your ongoing support.
Miss Prowse
Just a few quick reminders of some important dates throughout Term 2.
The Camp Fun Run is this Friday. It begins at 1.30pm and will go for approximately 45mins-1 hour. If there are any parents that would like to help volunteer on the day stickering/stamping children from our class as they complete the laps, could you please let me know ASAP via email or in person.
Pupil Free Day is in week 5 (Monday the 23rd of May) as we have a Staff Professional Development day.
Year 1P Performance Assembly will be moved from week 4 due to the Year 5/6 children being on camp so will now be scheduled for Friday 27th May. Please put this date in your diaries as we would love to show you some of the learning we have been doing this year.
The Public Holiday WA Day will be on Monday Week 7 (June 6th) so there will be no school on this day also.
Grandparents day will be on Wednesday the 29th of June. We would love to see as many Grandparents at school as possible as it is always a very special time for them to share with their grandchildren. More information will be given closer to the date but please write this date down in your diary!
The parent roster has gone up outside our classroom this week and we would love to see you for our Literacy block!
We are also trying to get our Food Garden up and running however, it needs a de-clutter and a clean up so if any parents have a green thumb that would like to help out, we would love to have you on board. Please email me or see me personally if you are able to help out with this wonderful community project!
Thank you for your ongoing support.
Miss Prowse
Putting numbers in their Place!
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 500!
We explored this concept using online games, songs, manipulative materials and then attempted to consolidate our learning with some Mathletics activities.
Below are some photos of the children exploring numbers using MAB's (Multi-based Arithmic Blocks) and pop stick bundles - the materials you might have used in your time at school!
We had some very clever Mathematicians that loved showing their work!
We even applied our knowledge of place value to some board games which we glued into our Math scrap book.
I have also added links to some of the games we played below and a fun song about ones, tens and hundreds which we loved singing!
I have assigned some Place Value tasks on Mathletics for your child to complete to consolidate some of the learning we are doing in class.
Have a lovely night
Miss Prowse
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 500!
We explored this concept using online games, songs, manipulative materials and then attempted to consolidate our learning with some Mathletics activities.
Below are some photos of the children exploring numbers using MAB's (Multi-based Arithmic Blocks) and pop stick bundles - the materials you might have used in your time at school!
We had some very clever Mathematicians that loved showing their work!
We even applied our knowledge of place value to some board games which we glued into our Math scrap book.
I have also added links to some of the games we played below and a fun song about ones, tens and hundreds which we loved singing!
Place Value Fruit Shoot Game
Splat Square
Place Value Song
I have assigned some Place Value tasks on Mathletics for your child to complete to consolidate some of the learning we are doing in class.
Have a lovely night
Miss Prowse
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