Year 1 Update – Wk 9
Wednesday 5th October – Dress Casual Day in aid of Hong Kong Community Chest
Thank you to all of you who attended the Parent Teacher meetings this week. It was lovely to be able to meet you all again and discuss how your children have settled into life at BHS.
This week has once again been a busy week in Year 1! The students have been preparing for their UOI summative task by choosing work that shows their learning from our current UOI. Next week they will be reflecting on their work from our “Who We Are” unit with their Year 5 buddies. They will be discussing ways in which they are similar and different to their buddies using a Venn Diagram and will be celebrating areas of strength at school and areas that they would like improve on.Throughout the year, the children will spend a lot of time reflecting on their learning, celebrating their successes and thinking of areas of their learning where they can improve.
Hong Kong Community Chest Dress Casual Day
On Wednesday 5th October we are inviting all BHS students to come to school dressed in their casual clothes and bring a donation of $20 or more in aid of HK Community Chest. Thank you for supporting this worthy cause.
Sibling Rivalry Parenting Workshop – Maria Marchant
‘How to help your children live together so that you can live happily too!’
October 18th from 6.30 – 8.00pm in the BHS hall
Winter Uniform
The winter uniform pre-order form will be distributed before the half term break. The BHS uniform shop will close between October 18th and 28th to process new student and Year 1 pre-orders, then Years 2-6. Please Take note of the sizing guide displayed outside the Uniform Shop.
Central Idea: People have abilities and interests who form who they are.
Next week we will be tying up our Who We Are unit with the children sharing their learning with their Year 5 buddies. The children will be choosing work for their portfolios and will be writing a reflection tag explaining why they have chosen particular pieces of work.
We will be starting our next UOI after the mid term break.
How the World Works
Central Idea: People play different roles in the communities they belong to.
Next week we will be exploring the concept of addition by asking the children to find different ways of making a number from 1-10. For example: 2+3=5, 1+4=5, 0+5=5. The children will explore this idea through practical games and activities.
This week the children have been continuing to build confidence in their own ability to be a writer. It is crucial that at this early stage the children have a real belief in their ability to write and see themselves as authors. Through our Writer’s Workshop approach we encourage the children to think about what they want to write, say their sentence aloud, write their sentence using their phonic and camera word knowledge and then check their sentence by reading it back to themselves or a partner. We have been very pleased with the positive attitude that the children are beginning to have towards their own writing.
This week we will continue to focus on using the Unit 1 phonemes to blend and segment words.
Phonemes: s m p t g a o c
Camera Words: I are the she was to
At school, as part of our language rotations all the children read to an adult at least once a week, usually twice.
1F – Casey Kwok
1L – Hailey Tsang
1W – Irena Chung
SMT Award – Sean Sham
