7 Sep 2015

Year 1 Weekly Update – Wk 4

Friday 11th September – PTA Bowling evening starting at 6.00pm

Thursday 24th September – BHS CPD Day – School closed

Friday 25th September – BHS CPD Day – School closed

Monday 28th September – Public Holiday – School closed

Wednesday 30th September – Community Chest Dress Casual Day

Tuesday 6th and Thursday 8th October – Parent Consultations. Sign up available on the Gateway for sibling parents only.

PMP started this week! For those parents that have not heard, PMP stands for Perceptual Motor Programme. The class works to develop students’ fine and large motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and control of their bodies. It is a great programme! Thank you very much to the parents who volunteer on these days that make this class possible.

There have been some questions as to whether or not students should come in PE uniform on these days. The answer is YES! Please wear your PE uniforms for both classes. It works out to be three times a week. Thank you!

Here are some bit of housekeeping that we would like to take care of and we need your help:

If you have not been receiving emails from your class teacher, please make sure that your correct email address is updated on the Gateway and check your spam folders.

Ms Jeves would like your child’s library bag to be recognizable to them. You can do this with a bit of ribbon or a small key chain on the zipper.

Be sure to sign the reading journal every day! Remember, if you need to keep the same book for another day or so it is okay. Reading at home should be fun, quick, and easy. Not a lot of work!

Who We Are

Central Idea: People have characteristics, abilities and interests that form who they are.

The central idea for this unit is a complex one, and classes have been reinforcing the idea that we all have similarities and differences and these are okay. In fact, the differences are what make life so great! Life would be boring if we all ate the same foods and sang the same songs. But it’s the similarities that bring us all together as people who live and care for the Earth. We will be looking at this idea a little more next week. Have a chat with your child and see if you can work together to think of some things that all people have or need.

As mentioned in the Meet The Teacher classroom presentations, the focus for Year 1 Maths is concept based. This means that we want students to know what numbers mean and how they work before focusing on equations and written problems. Building familiarity with numbers through physically counting items and mathematically based toys has been shown to strengthen a child’s ability to solve math problems more creatively in the future. So we do a lot of this in Year 1! For example, measurement is our current non-number based unit (we always have a concurrent number unit at the same time) so students next week will be comparing sizes of objects and measuring classroom items and their bodies with blocks.

How is the reading going at home? As mentioned last week, remember to ask your child to retell the story as best they can after reading. If this is difficult, remind them as you read that they should be putting a picture in your head and thinking about the words. If your child is just beginning, remember they can focus on just a few sounds while you do the reading. Here are the first group of phonemes again:

s m c t g p a o

Remember, the reading level is not what is important at this time. Understanding what they read is the focus! If your child has more experience with reading you can take a look at the Camera Word sheet that went home and see if they can read these words quickly and remember how they are spelled.

Happy reading!

1G – Shamu Tharm

1F – Eiffel Lu

1H – Shunji Lam

SLT Behaviour Award – Julian Park (1F)

PTA Bowling Night is here! If you see your child’s teacher please try to introduce yourself and mention your child’s name. Sixty new faces are hard to keep track of! Hope to see you there, and have a great weekend!

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