Room 15 News

This looks to be a busy week and we look forward to sharing your child’s learning with you in our interviews this week.

What’s happening this week in our learning…
Maths – double numbers eg double 1 is 2
Literacy – recount writing, short vowel sounds, reading strategies, sight words and alphabetical order.
Health – We will look at the concept of personal space and explore what it means to be a ‘space invader’.
Science – the children explored hot and cold foods.

This week’s sharing is free choice. This is the last sharing topic for the term.

For the last two weeks of term we will be doing money in maths, with a focus on coin recognition. We ask that all children bring in a snap lock bag of each coin in double amounts, eg 2 5c, 2 10c, 2 20c etc. We will use these coins to help us in our maths learning over the year. The money will be returned to you at some stage during the year. Could the money please be bought in by the end of this week, no later than Monday.

Enterprise Day will be held in week 11, Wednesday 12th April at 12:30 – 2:00. The year 1 classes will be hosting a popcorn stand. We are looking for any popcorn makers that we can borrow for the day. More info about this day will be coming soon.

We were also wondering if any of you would be interested in being our class rep for the year? Please let us know…

Gabby & Suzy

Hi everyone,
A couple of reminders for this week…
* thanks to all who have booked in an interview time for next week, please do so as this is a great opportunity for us to catch up about your child’s learning.
* Its Harmony Day tomorrow. Children can wear something orange to school. Please note that this is not a casual day.
* Head lice is going around at the moment. Please return bottom slip of head lice note back to us.

We have been very busy over the last couple of weeks in our Maths, learning about subitizing. Children have made cards to share with you at home. We are now moving on to number sense activities over the next couple of weeks.

Literacy – we are continuing on with looking at the recount structure, nouns, ng and ar sounds.

Health – social skills, looking at how to read other people’s feelings and body language.

Kind regards,
Gabby & Suzy

Hi everyone,
Here’s a couple of things happening in our class over the last week and this one…

Literacy
* th, ng sound.
* forming sentences using capital letters and full stops, alphabetical order
* structure of a recount, focusing on the ‘where’ and ‘who’.
* revisiting reading strategy of ‘eagle eye’ and looking at ‘lips the fish’ , and ‘stretchy snake’ (as per bookmark)

Maths
* subitising (ask your children what this means). We have also made our own pack of subitising cards for children to use at home (coming soon).

Health
*social skills, with a focus on making friends and being a good friend.

Science
* using pasta to explore chemical changes

This week I will not be at school Thursday and Friday due to family reasons, Adriana Scaffidi will be relieving.

Next week we have sharing – numbers are everywhere, bring something that has numbers (monday group please bring your sharing on tuesday, we will catch you up during the week).

Enjoy the long weekend,
Gabby & Suzy