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 2 (pages 7-9) 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
Year 1P
Thursday, 26 May 2016
Assembly and Sight Words
Good evening parents,
This is just one last reminder that our assembly is tomorrow and it begins at 9.05am. We are extremely excited and had a great practise today! I would ask that the children come to school in their costume tomorrow and also come with their sports uniform in their bag to change into after assembly. We can't wait to show you what we have been learning about!
Each child in Year One is required to learn the first 100 Diana Rigg sight words by the end of Year. Every 3 weeks the children will be retested to see if they have mastered both reading and spelling the sight word rings that they keep in their reading file. Out of the 25 sight words on each ring, the children are allowed to get no more than 2 wrong (both reading and spelling) before they receive the next set.
This is an example of the assessment sheet we complete at school.
Little Johnny then receives the note below with a copy of his written words with the words he spelt incorrectly. This can then be used as a starting point to practise at home.
Please let me know if there are any questions or queries and email me at prowse.monique@cathednet.wa.edu.au
Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow!
Miss Prowse
This is just one last reminder that our assembly is tomorrow and it begins at 9.05am. We are extremely excited and had a great practise today! I would ask that the children come to school in their costume tomorrow and also come with their sports uniform in their bag to change into after assembly. We can't wait to show you what we have been learning about!
Sight Words
I would just like to write a quick note to let you know about the sight words as some parents have been a bit confused with the sight word assessment sheets.Each child in Year One is required to learn the first 100 Diana Rigg sight words by the end of Year. Every 3 weeks the children will be retested to see if they have mastered both reading and spelling the sight word rings that they keep in their reading file. Out of the 25 sight words on each ring, the children are allowed to get no more than 2 wrong (both reading and spelling) before they receive the next set.
This is an example of the assessment sheet we complete at school.
As you can see, 'Little Johnny' has spelt three words wrong therefore he has not passed the sight word assessment.
Little Johnny then receives the note below with a copy of his written words with the words he spelt incorrectly. This can then be used as a starting point to practise at home.
Please let me know if there are any questions or queries and email me at prowse.monique@cathednet.wa.edu.au
Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow!
Miss Prowse
Monday, 23 May 2016
Week 4 Merit Award Winner
Congratulations to Luca who was this weeks merit award winner. You are a Year 1P superstar Luca, well done!
Miss Prowse
Year 1P Performance Assembly
Good evening parents,
This is just a quick reminder to tell you that our performance assembly will be this Friday the 27th of May at 9:00am.
For those who are readers in the play, please copy and paste the following link to have at look at our assembly script.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16i1V3trdMXbhHCWYW0XpbwQ0sgiZxFft4BvjqoRfenM/edit?usp=sharing
See you tomorrow
Miss Prowse
This is just a quick reminder to tell you that our performance assembly will be this Friday the 27th of May at 9:00am.
For those who are readers in the play, please copy and paste the following link to have at look at our assembly script.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16i1V3trdMXbhHCWYW0XpbwQ0sgiZxFft4BvjqoRfenM/edit?usp=sharing
See you tomorrow
Miss Prowse
Year 1P gets foodie!
Throughout Term Two, the Year One students will be participating in the OLC food garden project. On Thursday, we were very lucky to have Mrs. Kerr and Mrs. Mc Ginley to come in and help get our hands dirty by planting some broad bean seeds. To start our project, we had a discussion about what our seeds needed to grow and what we needed to do to take care of them. The children came up with water, sunshine, shade, soil and of course love to keep our little plants going!
We also looked at the life cycle of a broad bean and spoke about the part of the life cycle that we would be starting today.
We then went outside and used our newspaper planters, (Mrs. Drmota, Mr. Rogan and Mrs. Kerr again) put on our gardening gloves and we filled them with soil. We then got one of our heritage broad bean seeds and planted them into our soil. It was a bit tricky for some of the children in our class as the pots were very delicate!
After planting our seeds, we came inside and completed an activity which broke the broad bean life cycle into 6 stages. The children were very clever completed the activity with ease.
Watch this space to see how our beans are going!
Miss Prowse
We also looked at the life cycle of a broad bean and spoke about the part of the life cycle that we would be starting today.
We then went outside and used our newspaper planters, (Mrs. Drmota, Mr. Rogan and Mrs. Kerr again) put on our gardening gloves and we filled them with soil. We then got one of our heritage broad bean seeds and planted them into our soil. It was a bit tricky for some of the children in our class as the pots were very delicate!
After planting our seeds, we came inside and completed an activity which broke the broad bean life cycle into 6 stages. The children were very clever completed the activity with ease.
Watch this space to see how our beans are going!
Miss Prowse
Monday, 16 May 2016
Food Garden Volunteers
Good afternoon parents,
We are looking to start our Food Garden bean plants this week and would love if any parents could come in and help make the newspaper pots to plant our bean seeds into. We would also require some assistance to put the seeds into the soil.
We will require a few parents on Wednesday morning (18th May) from 8.50am - 9.15 am to help construct the newspaper pots in the wet area.
Thursday will be our planting day. If you could assist with this from 9.05am - 9.30 am approx. that would be very helpful. Some hands might get dirty - but we have soap :)
If you are able to assist with either Wednesday or Thursday morning, after drop off, please email me.
We are looking forward to growing some delicious broad beans!
Miss Prowse
We are looking to start our Food Garden bean plants this week and would love if any parents could come in and help make the newspaper pots to plant our bean seeds into. We would also require some assistance to put the seeds into the soil.
We will require a few parents on Wednesday morning (18th May) from 8.50am - 9.15 am to help construct the newspaper pots in the wet area.
Thursday will be our planting day. If you could assist with this from 9.05am - 9.30 am approx. that would be very helpful. Some hands might get dirty - but we have soap :)
If you are able to assist with either Wednesday or Thursday morning, after drop off, please email me.
We are looking forward to growing some delicious broad beans!
Miss Prowse
Sunday, 15 May 2016
Mini Beasts are taking over Year 1P
We have had a very bug-tastic week this week in Year 1P!
We have been learning about mini beasts in Science and on Tuesday we went on a Insect Safari!
We worked in teams of 3 and in each team we had a Communications Officer (the person who communicates with the teacher), a Safari Sargent (the person who directs the team) and a Bug patrol and digger (the person who gets their hands dirty and looks in the bushes and dirt for bugs!). We had to carefully look for insects around our school and look at the environments in which they live.
Here are some pictures of our Safari!
As well as looking at mini beasts in Science, we have also been exploring non-fiction texts within our Literacy session. We have learnt about different text features within a non fiction text which include contents pages, titles, headings and labelled diagrams.
We have read books about Caterpillars and Butterflies and have used the information to create our own explosion charts, KWL charts and Caterpillar reports. We even had some time to create some caterpillar art!
I have been blown away with some of the writing that the children have been producing and I am so proud of the comprehension strategies that they have been implementing in their work.
We are very clever scientists in Year One!
Miss Prowse
We have been learning about mini beasts in Science and on Tuesday we went on a Insect Safari!
We worked in teams of 3 and in each team we had a Communications Officer (the person who communicates with the teacher), a Safari Sargent (the person who directs the team) and a Bug patrol and digger (the person who gets their hands dirty and looks in the bushes and dirt for bugs!). We had to carefully look for insects around our school and look at the environments in which they live.
Here are some pictures of our Safari!
As well as looking at mini beasts in Science, we have also been exploring non-fiction texts within our Literacy session. We have learnt about different text features within a non fiction text which include contents pages, titles, headings and labelled diagrams.
We have read books about Caterpillars and Butterflies and have used the information to create our own explosion charts, KWL charts and Caterpillar reports. We even had some time to create some caterpillar art!
I have been blown away with some of the writing that the children have been producing and I am so proud of the comprehension strategies that they have been implementing in their work.
We are very clever scientists in Year One!
Miss Prowse
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