We are 100 Days Smarter!

On Tuesday we had a wonderful time celebrating the 100th day of school for the year. The children participated in a variety of fun 'One Hundred' activities including writing about what they have learnt in the last 100 days, what they wish they had 100 of and what they would like to do in 100 days. They drew pictures of what they look like now and what they think they will look like when they are 100 years old. The children also had a great time building cup towers with 100 cups, writing numbers with chalk on the bricks to 100, writing 100 rhyming words, constructing with 100 pieces of Lego and identifying odd and even numbers to 100. After the activities we had a delicious shared lunch with the other Year One class. A huge thanks to all of our wonderful Mums, Dads and Grandparents for contributing a plate to the lunch. We had an absolutely fantastic day wearing our special '100 day' crowns and celebrating being '100 days smarter!'

Math Magicians

We have begun the term consolidating our understanding of place value from Term 2. We have looked at '4 ways to make a number', writing the number, identifying how many hundreds, tens or ones, making the number and writing the number in expanded form. We have also played 'Place Value War' a hands on card where the children have to identify who has the largest number and on Friday we played the board games 'Tricertops Race' and 'Zoo Race' where the children were in pairs and compared numbers in written, expanded and MAB form (blocks). We also learnt a new song about place value this week, which the children love singing at the start of a Mathematics session. I have attached the link for the song and a game that we play on the interactive whiteboard. Check out some of the photos from us playing and learning more about place value. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5W47G-h7myY

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/placevalue/fruit_shoot_place_value.htm

We are 100 days smarter!

Good evening parents,

This Tuesday the 26th of July, the Year One students will be 100 days smarter! To celebrate this wonderful milestone, we will be holding a shared lunch for both Year One classes. 

We would really appreciate if the boys could bring a small plate of savoury food and the girls bring a small plate of sweet food. As this is a shared lunch, the children will only be required to bring their recess and sip and crunch.

Please ensure there are no nuts in the food that is brought in as we have children in our classes with allergies.

Throughout the day, the children will be focusing on a variety of hundred day activities integrating into our Literacy, Maths and Art subject areas.

The children (and the teachers) are looking forward to celebrating this wonderful occasion!

Thank you

Miss Lissiman

Think Mental Math Books

Good evening parents,

Today the children's Think Mentals books went home for homework and the children were very excited to get their beloved Maths books back!

This term, we will begin completing one unit per week. However I will only be collecting the books every two weeks for marking. I have chosen to collect the books every two weeks as I know that there are some week nights that the children have other commitments or family events that prevent them from completing particular days so I thought completing two units over two weeks might alleviate some of the pressure to get everything in on time.

Therefore this week (week 1) and next week (week 2) the children are required to complete both Unit 5 and 6 (pages 16-20).

The book will be due in on Friday 29th of July, but I will send a reminder in before this date.

If you have any questions or queries, please don't hesitate to email me.

Miss Lissiman

Welcome to Term 3!

Welcome back to Term 3!

It has been a very cold start to the term, however the children have come back ready and raring to go and I love their enthusiasm!

This term we are looking at a variety of topics with an integrated look at the Olympics over the next three weeks.

Our writing focus this term will look at different types of Poetry and Narrative structure which will also incorporate Dream Time Stories.

Our Math focus this term will be Place value (up to three digit numbers), Money, 2D and 3D shapes, Measurement (capacity and length), addition and subtraction, skip counting (2's, 5's, 10's), basic fractions and odd and even numbers.

In our HASS subjects we will have a focus on things from past and how children's daily lives differ from those of their parent's or Grandparent's childhoods.

We will also be looking at a variety of Dream Time Stories and comparing these stories to our modern day activity of story telling.

In Science we will be exploring how we can observe changes in the sky and landscape and how this can affect our ability to care for natural, managed and constructed features.

Some important dates in Term 3: 

100 Days of school celebration Tuesday 26th July (more information to follow)

Year 1 family mass - Saturday 30th July (week 2) 6:00pm

Australian Wildlife incursion (more information to follow) - Monday 8th August (week 4)

Mission Markets - Friday 12th August (week 4)

Pupil Free Day - Friday 19th August (week 5)

Year 1L Performance Assembly - Friday 2nd September (week 7)

Learning Journeys - Monday 19th September (week 10)

OLC Sports carnival - Thursday 22nd September (week 10)


The children will have a very busy term ahead, but an exciting one!

Miss Lissiman

Term Two

What a busy term of learning we had in Term Two! From learning how to write procedures, to cooking, to mini-beasts, to telling the time and learning more about place value of numbers, to gardening, to having our Grandparents in our class for Grandparent's Day, to Cross Country and everything in between! Check out some of the photos from our terrific term!