Mental Mental Books

Dear Parents,

The children are very excited to be starting their Think Mentals Math book this week which was purchased at the beginning of the year.

Mental maths such as addition and subtraction, counting on, sequencing of numbers and number recognition are some of the concepts that we have covered in class. These will be reinforced in our Think Mentals book that will help your child gain confidence and apply mathematical concepts in a fun and supportive way.

In supporting our Math program in class, we would like for your child to complete one unit over a fortnightly period. When completing questions with your child, we would ask that you support them by reading questions if necessary and marking the questions to give your child instant feedback on how they went and writing their score at the bottom of the page.

An example of one unit

We encourage you to use a combination of visual and manipulative tools such as number lines, hundreds charts or counters to help your child complete these tasks.

Please do not spend more than 10 minutes at a time completing these activities and make it apart of your child's reading and sight word routine.

At the end of the fortnight, the books will be collected by myself and checked to make sure your child understands the concepts covered. We ask that your child does not complete more than one unit a fortnight as to ensure we can review these concepts in class if necessary.

Unit One will be due at the end of week 3 (Friday 13th May)

If you have any questions or concerns, please email me.

Miss Lissiman

Welcome Back to Term 2

Dear Parents

Welcome back to Term 2, I hope you had a restful and enjoyable break with your beautiful children.  This term we will be learning about Mini-Beasts, researching and writing reports on a mini-beast. In Technology the children will be designing and creating a suitable environment for their mini-beast. 

We will be learning more about place value and numbers to and beyond 100, telling the time to the half hour, chance events, skip counting, addition and subtraction. 

This week we will be focusing on ANZAC Day, what it means, why we celebrate it and why it's important to us. It would be great if your child has any special photos or war memorabilia to bring in to share with the class for news. 

We hope you enjoyed the writing packs that the children took home over the holidays (please ask if your child did not receive one at the end of term). 

Reading will recommence this week, please continue to support your child in reading on a daily basis both their book and sight words. Remember that your child needs to be accurately reading and spelling their sight words before they can move onto new words. 

Please have a brief discussion about the holidays with your child in the morning on the way to school. This will greatly assist with their writing tomorrow morning. 

Remember to have an early night tonight and I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow.

Miss Lissiman :) 

Parent Interviews

Dear Parents

There are still a couple of time slots available if you haven't made an interview time for next week. If those remaining times are not suitable, please let me know and we organise an alternative day and time. I look forward to meeting with you all.

Have a great weekend!

Miss Lissiman

Week 9

We have been extremely busy over the last few weeks with Easter celebrations and the 20th Anniversary of the school. Come in during the last week of Term 1 and check out some of the amazing work that we have been doing lately.