Year 1K OLC

 Welcome to the last week of the first term of Year 1!  What a whirlwind term we have had.  Last Friday was a wonderful day where we celebrated our achievement in our InitiaLit structured literacy program and our work on writing dictation by writing four amazing sentences and then a paragraph about our teddies.  We loved having them come and visit and they even enjoyed having a crunch and sip session after reading and a play out in the nature playground! We begin each day with our explicit reading and spelling learning on the mat before breaking off to our differentiated reading and spelling groups.  I am so proud of how persistent and focused the children are everyday towards learning and how far they have come in their reading and writing we do each day in 1K.  Please feel free to come in and have a look in our writing book or integrated learning scrapbook anytime to see all the work we have done!  Last week was the introduction to our writing unit learning about narrative stories wh

Hello parents, I hope you had a lovely weekend! As my own children's summer sport season is winding down (cricket is done and a couple of basketball finals to go) there was the chance to go to the beach and enjoy the amazing ocean on our doorstep. I hope you all had a relaxing weekend, as I can safely say that all members of 1K, including the teachers, finished swimming week with very tired bodies and brains.  I was so proud of the way they tried so hard with the double lessons all week and remembered to show our school values while we were there.    If you haven't heard, we got back late from the pool on Wednesday afternoon to find out we had been pranked by 3Mac!  The kids couldn't believe that somehow 3Mac turned our image on our smartboard around, wrote on our whiteboard and moved all of our chairs.  So we decided while they were away on Friday we would have a little fun too swapping and mixing up their trays.  Look at the sheer delight/cheekiness on some of these faces

Hello parents! This is the big week - swimming week! Get ready for some excited and soon to be very tired kids all week!  Some reminder details in addition to those I shared last week's blog post include: Swimming Lessons Swimming commences Week 7 (Monday March 15 th  to Friday 19 th  March). The children may wear their sports uniform from the entire week with their bathers under their uniform. The boys often like to wear their boardies under their school school shorts so that they are ready to go. If your girls have difficulty going to the toilet in their bathers, please teach them an easy way/method depending on their bathers type or if this is difficult, we can get them changed at recess if they would prefer. If your child is wearing a rashie, please bring it separately, as they can be hot under their uniform and this is an easy change at school.  They will need to wear sneakers and socks to school each day and pack thongs in their swimming bag ready to swap over just after rec

Dear Parents,  I hope you had a fabulous long weekend enjoying the beautiful weather and spending time with family. I am feeling much better today after quite a few awful bedridden days and had a wonderful day back with everyone today.   Learning  We've been busy mathematicians continuing to collect data each day by reading a question, classifying, sorting and tallying our information.  It can be confirmed that we have found out that most of us would prefer to be invisible rather than have flying carpets and that a vanilla sponge cake is more popular than carrot or banana bread!  Our daily maths lessons have been focusing on the concept that numbers can be composed and decomposed, in other words each total number can be made up of parts.  We are learning that this is what addition is and that we can count the total number from the start, count on from the big number and we are learning that our friends of ten (and twenty) facts and doubles addition facts can help us to be even fast