Year 1K OLC

 Dear Parents, Well here we are, the last term and boy is it just whizzing by now!  It has been a big week practising for our opportunity to lead the Grandparents Day assembly as our prayer assembly tomorrow at 2.15.   No costumes or dress up requirements needed this time. Please also note that the all of the classrooms will be open from the end of lunch at 1.45 for grandparents and parents to pop in however our class will need to leave quite soon just after 2.00pm for us to prepare for the afternoon prayer assembly in the hall. Our learning concepts will follow on into next week so please check out the previous blog to see some of the topics we are focusing on in 1K.  Please also feel free to email me if you would like to organise a chat before or after school one day about you child in regards to anything at all.  Anyone going to the  Busselton show may also see 5 1K student art in the OLC artwork on display as each class has several examples on disp...

 Dear Parents, After some lovely extra time off with family time up north, I was straight back into it last week and can't thank Mrs Sorgiovanni enough for her teaching over the last couple of weeks.  The students have grown so much over only a month and I am so proud of such confident, responsible and kind students we have in 1C.  Knowing we have such amazing students and teachers at OLC makes working here a blessing and not too rough to get back into things after a month of sunshine and exploring all over our state.  Well here we go into Week Three of the last term of Year 1!  We weclome Arlo S. this week too to join our 1K team so please make him and his parents feel welcome. Some big news too is that on Friday our class offered last minute to lead the Grandparents Day assembly as our prayer assembly.  We only have the week to prepare and rehearse but as we all know, 1K have amazing performance skills and we are sure to succeed and impress when we lead t...

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 ...