Room 15 News

Hi everyone,
Just a friendly reminder that we have nature play next week, please bring gumboots and raincoat to school (if you have them). We will keep them here for the week. We will be starting 9am most mornings. For this reason we will not be listening to reading or sight words for this week.

Maths – for the next two weeks we will be doing length in measurement.

Jolly Grammar – words that end in ‘y’ that make an e sound and initial blends eg bl, fr, st

Thanks to everyone who have brought in a photo of a grandparent or special person. We are using these as part of our learning in Inquiry.

Lastly I just wanted to let you know that I will be taking family carers leave and report writing days from Thursday 1st June until and including the 9th. Adriana Scaffidi will be taking the class for that time. My husband is having an operation and will need care at home. Thanks for your understanding!

Also Max in our class has misplaced his school jacket. Could you please check that it hasn’t accidentally gone to a different home.

Have a good weekend,
Gabby & Suzy

Hi everyone,
Hope all you mums had a great Mother’s Day and that your children spoiled you all!!

Here is what is happening in our learning over the next couple of weeks.

Literacy – we continue with our focus on narratives by using picture books and well known fairy tales.
Sight words – a book will be coming home soon for your child to practice writing sight words at home.

Maths – we will spend the next two weeks on skip counting, with focus on 2, 5 and 10 eg 2,4,6,8,10. It will be great to get your children to practice with you.

Health – we will be looking at healthy eating over the term.

Inquiry

This term all the year 1 classes will be working together with Simone with a focus on Geography, History and Science inspired by the author Jeannie Baker who is well known for her picture books that feature collage. Last week we made a collage of ourselves. We looked at different books and came up with our own “I wonder” questions. We will be working in small groups, doing various activities and rotating groups with all teachers to experience many different learning inquiries. Below are photos of the collages we made.

To help with our learnings, we would like children to bring in a paper copy (not an original) of a photo of a grandparent as a baby and at their current age if possible. We will use these photos as part of our history inquiry. It would great if this photo was of one of the grandparents your child invites for special persons day in week 9.

Cheers
Gabby & Suzy

Welcome back to term 2! We hope your children enjoyed the break. It was fabulous to see how well the children quickly settled into routine and were ready for learning.

Here is some information about things that are happening over the next few weeks and during the term.

Maths – we will be spending two weeks on “rainbow facts”. That is understanding and knowing multiples to 10 eg 6 + 4 = 10
Literacy – reading comprehension and narrative

Our focus this term will also be Geography (more on that later).

This week we are sharing something we did in the holidays. Children can bring in something if they like, or simply an oral talk. Other sharing topics will come out later in the term.

We have also moved children’s sharing days forward by one. This means that if your child’s reader was placed in the Monday box during term 1, now it will be on Tuesday and so on.

We are looking forward to another successful term of learning.

Cheers
Gabby & Suzy