Year 1K OLC

Dear Parents,  I hope you had a lovely weekend!  It was a lovely rainy one apart from standing in the rain watching the kids play sport although I think they loved it!  Rebecca Cool Visit -  On Thursday, we were lucky enough today to have Rebecca Cool come visit the Year Ones and the Year Twos. Rebecca is a WA artist and illustrator who lives in Margaret River. Rebecca has studied at the Claremont School of Fine Art, has her work shown at a number of exhibit and has illustrated a series of books that have won many awards. The children were fortunate enough to listen to Rebecca read the story Isabella's Garden by Glenda Millard. The children learnt about the process Rebecca went through when illustrating the book. She also brought in special original canvas paintings for the children to look at. The children are in the process of making their very own Rebecca Cool style art. We will be painting and collaging our work. What a very COOL day the Year Ones and Twos had!!!! Sun Chimes

 Dear Parents, I hope you had a lovely weekend break! We had a great day and most of us even enjoyed experiencing the storm with thunder, lightning and lots of rain today at school. Sun Chimes -  STEM Project (Wednesday Week 5) Today we finished our  design plans for our sun chimes as a part of our integrated science to create a sun chime as a part of our unit in Science related to what we have been learning about sound and light.   There is only a few days left if your child wanted to bring to school any other materials that you have in your home that they feel would create lovely sound or light and that we may have limited numbers of. Items may include: bottle tops, thin craft wire, buttons, gemstones, old sunglasses, old CDs, unused keys, screws and bolts, old spoons and forks, mirror mosaic tiles etc. If they could bring it to school in a small ziplock bag or similar with their name clearly labelled on it, it would clearly help with the design and construction process over the next

Hello parents,  Some other information in addition to the post I sent earlier this week. Apologies for sending the wrong link in the first text I sent! I hope all is well - the kids have definitely been working hard this week!   Sun Chimes -  STEM Project (Wednesday Week 5) Today we began our integrated science and design technology to design and create a sun chime as a part of our unit in Science related to what we have been learning about sound and light.  The children will work in collaborative teams of three to plan and design a sun chime (a mixture of a wind chime and a sun catcher) - a collaborative piece that creates relaxing sounds and reflects light.  Your child may have come home demanding materials today in their excitement about our project that we introduced and started to plan today but never fear that we have plenty of recycled materials at school.  However, your child is welcome to bring to school any other materials that you have in your home that they feel would creat

Happy Monday and welcome back to another busy week! I hope you all had a lovely Mother's Day and were spoiled with love, gratitude and maybe even some time spent with your feet up!  Much love was spent in class the last couple of weeks with the kids so excited to share the gift and cards made so carefully.  Some gorgeous portraits too of you I must say! x  Our Learning 😍😏🤗🥰 Last week and this week we have really put our mathematician brains to the test and learn all about telling time. This can be a tricky concept, but we are determined to get there, it is expected in Year One that students are able to read o'clock and half past times on an analogue clock and digital clock and be able to write these times as well.  🕤  We are finishing up our narratives writing unit, learning about a story mountain and all of the parts we find within a good story.  We learnt about what real authors to do write a story and have even had our first go of having a story edited, publishing a goo