Year 1K OLC

Dear Parents, What a wonderful week so far with lots of learning and fun.  Today we will finish the week with the OLC's Got Talent Show on after an early lunch break.  The children all looked so wonderful yesterday thank you for sending them to school reading and looking very f i n e ! We have had a great time this week so far, having two Year 5 Challenge Academy students coming to teach us about bees, making some bee craft, learning to draw still-life pictures with Mrs Sorgiovanni, reversible and irreversible changes in science and learning about the three persons of God as our Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.   In Initialit reading we have been learning about reading with fluency, verbs and using the suffix 'ed' to show it has already happened.  In reading groups we have been working on sounding out loud tricky words, chunking longer words into syllables and asking someone if we don't know what a word means and can't imagine anything.  We know how imp...

 Dear Parents, What a performance on Friday!!! I am so proud of how well they performed with confidence, getting through some excited nerves and beaming smiles throughout! Thank you to the parents who helped their child pick out the perfect 'dad costume' -  they definitely all looked the part. I hope the dads all had a wonderful day today with their families and enjoyed a little bit of sunshine too as an extra gift. Congratulations to Yara for being our merit award recipient last week for her personal growth in the area of subtraction.  She has worked hard to improve her personal skills to solve subtraction number sentences using some of the strategies we have been learning to help us solve some of these problems.  Well done Yara, you are a maths magician!  School Photos This Thursday 9th of September our school photos will be taking place. Please ensure your child comes to school ready wearing the  full winter uniform , including trousers, grey socks and t...

Dear parents, I hope you all enjoyed the extra long OLC weekend - it was a lovely break and gave us all time to recuperate after a big week including the sports carnival and open classrooms afternoon. Assembly This Friday is the big one! Our grand performance!  The assembly will start at 2.10pm but if any parents could pop in just before at about 1.45 straight after lunch to help us get dressed that would be wonderful.  Please send your child's costume to school in a clearly marked plastic bag/swimming bag so we can get changed into it straight after lunch.  Students will need to wear their normal sports uniform for the first part of the day.  I can't wait to see them all dressed up as their dads.  It was interesting to hear what clothes they wanted to wear and many were very keen to adorn some facial hair.  A few were a bit worried what they would do if their dad was bald or thinning - obviously really keen to play the full role!   There will be ...

Dear Parents,  Just a few bits of information for tomorrow and next week:  Athletics Carnival Tomorrow is our annual athletics carnival, kicking off around 9.15. You will have received an email from admin with the schedule for the day.  Please also read below other information sent from admin earlier this morning in regards to the day.  I also asked the students to have a bit of a clean out of their school bags this evening as we take them down to the oval for the day to hold their jumpers, lunchboxes and water bottles - and clearly name everything especially food containers, jumpers and hats! Students can bring teddies decorated in team colours but they will be responsible for looking after them for the day.  Students can also have coloured hair/zinc but I ask if you could do this before school at home rather than outside the class.  I'm very excited to join in the fun and looking forward to a great day tomorrow!  Open Evening Tomorrow will also be ou...

  Dear Parents,  Well here we are halfway through Term Three - time flies when you are having fun!  SEESAW  - This is a form of formal reporting that we are implementing over this semester to give you insight to your child's achievement more regularly rather than only the formal report that you will receive at the end of the year.   We now have nearly all families sign up and access their child's journal. Don't forget you can have both parents access your child's Seesaw account and that you can access directly with the Seesaw Family app on your phone, device or computer.  Please let me know  if you need assistance or would like to be emailed the direct link if there is any problems accessing your child's learning journal using the QR code. 1K Assembly -  our performance assembly will be on 3rd September in a fortnight's time and we will be celebrating our dads, grandfathers and special men in our lives as it lands just before Fathers Day and will ...

Dear Parents,  Well here we go into Week 4! I hope you all had a relaxing weekend and managed to get out and about between the clouds and showers or just enjoyed some time at home with friends or family.  In 1K, we have a tradition to give each weekend a rating from 1-10 each Monday in class to and it is always so interesting to hear the individuality of each child's rating and their reasoning why! SEESAW - As per the information sent home a couple of weeks ago in an email from administration, we are now using the Seesaw platform school-wide to use to show you some of the activities that we are completing in class as well as providing insight and feedback to your child and yourselves about how they are going. This is a form of formal reporting that we are implementing over this semester to give you insight to your child's achievement more regularly rather than only the formal report that you will receive at the end of the year.   Over the past two weeks, y our child...

  Good evening families, Welcome back to Term 3! I hope you have all had a beautiful mid-year break and managed to get out and about but also rest after a hectic Term 2. I appreciate all your ongoing support in busy times so thank you once again for being so great last term.   Welcome back this week to those who were lucky enough to have an extended break up north enjoying that extra sunshine. A warm welcome to Zen and the Honeybone family to OLC who joined our class in the last week of last term.  Zen, you have settled in so well and we are so lucky to have you in our 1K team.  A look into what we will be learning for the first half of this term: Literacy:  We are focusing on persuasive texts which is a new type of writing for us this year! This is a piece of writing that will explain our readers and opinion about a topic and we will use reasons with explanations and details to try to convince our readers to feel, think and agree the same belief as us....