Dear Parents,
Tomorrow is our beach day and the Year One children will be leaving after recess to start their day. The schedule will go as follows:
8.50-9.40: School assembly
9.40-10.00: The children will leave for the Boat Ramp
10.00-10.15: Morning tea at the Boat ramp
10.20 - 11.50: Rotations of sand play, rock pool exploration, water play (Supervised by Smith's Beach Surf Life Saving) and playground.
11.50 - 12.05: Children return back to OLC for lunch
12.05-3.05: School activities
Your child will need to bring to school:
- Their Recess an water bottle in a PLASTIC BAG with their name on it
- Their school bag with only their lunch in it when they return from the beach
- Thongs to wear on their feet (they can wear these for the entire day)
- Change of clean undies to get changed into after.
- A wide brimmed hat or their school hat
- Come to school with sunscreen on (we will have some available for application duirng the day)
- Wear a rashie or collared t-shirt which must be worn in the water
If you have any questions about the beach day, please email me.
Many thanks
Miss Prowse
Year 1P
Thursday 7 December 2017
Monday 4 December 2017
Last Week of Year One!
OH MY GOODNESS!
I can't believe we are at the end! I have absolutely loved having every single on of your children in my class and I will miss them so much next year! I can safely say that I have learnt so much from your children and it has been an absolute privilege to have taught them. They have gone from strength to strength and they amaze me every day with their learning, more often than not, teaching me a thing or two.
I would like to say a huge thank you to all the parents this year, from washing tea towels, cutting up pieces of card for an activity, hot days on excursions and marking spelling tests, you have made such a difference this year and I am so thankful that you have been there to support your child (and the class) on their learning journey. Your commitment to listening to your child read reading, calling out tricky sight words and double taking on what is being asked in the Think Mentals, you have provided your children with a wonderful foundation for future years of learning, and they will be reaping the benefits. A special thank you to our wonderful parent reps Sarah Breheny and Alice Huxtable who did a wonderful job this year.
A lot of work has been put in by our fabulous education assistants Mrs. Hughes, Mrs. Annert, Mrs. Beatty, Mrs. Derickx and Mrs. Peacock who has helped the children throughout the year in more ways I can list. It has also been such a great dynamic working with Miss Rundle as we were able to work cohesively to ensure the best learning was occurring across the Year One co-hort.
Please pop in and see me when you can as I have really enjoyed getting to know all of you!
A few reminders for our final week together:
Just a little more parent help required...
We would love some parent helpers to assist us with end of term cleaning of toys and chairs this Wednesday morning straight after drop off. Many hands make light work! If you are able to help, please email me ASAP. Thanks in anticipation for your help.
Sight Words
A collection of the first 200 sight words are on the children's desk mats which will go home this week. Some extra practice over the holidays to consolidate reading and spelling of these words would be very beneficial.
Returns
We require all PLD packs, overdue library books and home readers back this week before the year is out!
Plastic bags
We will start sending home some books throughout the week, to avoid the children lugging too much home on Friday. Donations of plastic bags will help us to pack things into the students' bags. Portfolio files will go home on Friday with some of your children's precious work samples from throughout the year, along with an end of year report.
Merry Christmas and God bless you and your families over the Christmas holidays and Thank you again for such an outstanding year! No doubt I will bump into at some point!
Miss Prowse
I can't believe we are at the end! I have absolutely loved having every single on of your children in my class and I will miss them so much next year! I can safely say that I have learnt so much from your children and it has been an absolute privilege to have taught them. They have gone from strength to strength and they amaze me every day with their learning, more often than not, teaching me a thing or two.
I would like to say a huge thank you to all the parents this year, from washing tea towels, cutting up pieces of card for an activity, hot days on excursions and marking spelling tests, you have made such a difference this year and I am so thankful that you have been there to support your child (and the class) on their learning journey. Your commitment to listening to your child read reading, calling out tricky sight words and double taking on what is being asked in the Think Mentals, you have provided your children with a wonderful foundation for future years of learning, and they will be reaping the benefits. A special thank you to our wonderful parent reps Sarah Breheny and Alice Huxtable who did a wonderful job this year.
A lot of work has been put in by our fabulous education assistants Mrs. Hughes, Mrs. Annert, Mrs. Beatty, Mrs. Derickx and Mrs. Peacock who has helped the children throughout the year in more ways I can list. It has also been such a great dynamic working with Miss Rundle as we were able to work cohesively to ensure the best learning was occurring across the Year One co-hort.
Please pop in and see me when you can as I have really enjoyed getting to know all of you!
A few reminders for our final week together:
Just a little more parent help required...
We would love some parent helpers to assist us with end of term cleaning of toys and chairs this Wednesday morning straight after drop off. Many hands make light work! If you are able to help, please email me ASAP. Thanks in anticipation for your help.
Sight Words
A collection of the first 200 sight words are on the children's desk mats which will go home this week. Some extra practice over the holidays to consolidate reading and spelling of these words would be very beneficial.
Returns
We require all PLD packs, overdue library books and home readers back this week before the year is out!
Plastic bags
We will start sending home some books throughout the week, to avoid the children lugging too much home on Friday. Donations of plastic bags will help us to pack things into the students' bags. Portfolio files will go home on Friday with some of your children's precious work samples from throughout the year, along with an end of year report.
Merry Christmas and God bless you and your families over the Christmas holidays and Thank you again for such an outstanding year! No doubt I will bump into at some point!
Miss Prowse
Thursday 30 November 2017
End of Year Events
Boardies Day
Tomorrow the children are invited to come to school in their 'boardies' for a gold coin donation, as per the information in the newsletter.
Boat Ramp Beach Fun Day
Stay tuned for more newsletter information on our whole school end of year fun day at The Dunsborough Boat Ramp. Let's hope we have a nice sunny day for it next Friday! We are leaving school to take the bus down to Old Dunsborough at around 10am and aiming to return to school by 12:30pm.
Awards Night
Our end of year awards night and Christmas carols will be held next Wednesday at 5:30pm in the hall. There will be two special awards presented to students in each class on this evening. We encourage attendance of all students for this highlight of the year.
Sight Words/Readers
There will be no sight words or readers going home in the final week of school. Please ensure that the children have brought back their books and sight words by next Monday to allow enough time to return to the library.
Spelling
Below is a link to the phonics patterns that we have covered in the spelling groups this term. It may be a good idea to practise these focus sounds with your child over the holidays, as the children will continue with this spelling program in Year Two.
Spelling Review
Tomorrow the children are invited to come to school in their 'boardies' for a gold coin donation, as per the information in the newsletter.
Boat Ramp Beach Fun Day
Stay tuned for more newsletter information on our whole school end of year fun day at The Dunsborough Boat Ramp. Let's hope we have a nice sunny day for it next Friday! We are leaving school to take the bus down to Old Dunsborough at around 10am and aiming to return to school by 12:30pm.
Awards Night
Our end of year awards night and Christmas carols will be held next Wednesday at 5:30pm in the hall. There will be two special awards presented to students in each class on this evening. We encourage attendance of all students for this highlight of the year.
Sight Words/Readers
There will be no sight words or readers going home in the final week of school. Please ensure that the children have brought back their books and sight words by next Monday to allow enough time to return to the library.
Spelling
Below is a link to the phonics patterns that we have covered in the spelling groups this term. It may be a good idea to practise these focus sounds with your child over the holidays, as the children will continue with this spelling program in Year Two.
Spelling Review
Wednesday 29 November 2017
Our learning in Term Four
As you may have seen, the Year Ones have been very busy in their learning this term, I just wanted to share with you some of the amazing learning that goes on in the Year One classroom!
In English, we have loved learning about all different types of fairytales and we especially loved reading different versions of stories and explored what happened when parts of the stories we loved were changed.
The children explored stories such as The Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding hood, Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella. The children loved drawing their story map of Little Red Riding hood going to her Grandma's house and this created a wonderful prompt which helped with oral storytelling.
The children made text-to-self connections with the story of Cinderella. We imagined what it would be like to have a Fairy God mother and wrote about what we would wish for. The children got very creative and drew their own Fairy God mother to match their writing. Their interpretations of what encompassed a Fairy God mother (and their wishes) was a great way to finish our unit.
The children were so inspired when they read these stories, that they wrote their own Fairy tale narratives. They planned, edited and illustrated their own books and absolutely loved putting a twist on some of the stories that we read and making them into their own. We would love for you to come in and read them and tell us how clever we are!
In Science we have been learning about chemical change and how materials can change when we heat and cool them. The children loved making spaghetti pictures with squishy, sticky, slimy cooked spaghetti and loved building towers with long, hard and straight uncooked spaghetti! We explored what happens when chocolate is melted (yum) and what happened when different materials like olive oil, yoghurt and water were frozen.
In Geography and Technology we were given the task of creating and designing our own classrooms. The children were given success criteria of making sure every child had somewhere to sit, having clear pathways between the furniture and having dedicated learning areas where they must clearly label the learning that occurs. They have absolutely loved this task and I can safely say, that we have some future interior designers in our midst!
In Maths we have been looking at multiplication and how numbers can be separated into groups and arrays. The children used their imagination and created their own array cities where they had to design arrays of squares which would represent the windows in their array buildings. Many of the children challenged themselves and even created arrays of 6 rows of 5. They have really enjoyed exploring the concept of multiplication through Art.
Phew! I think that is it, although
In English, we have loved learning about all different types of fairytales and we especially loved reading different versions of stories and explored what happened when parts of the stories we loved were changed.
The children explored stories such as The Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding hood, Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella. The children loved drawing their story map of Little Red Riding hood going to her Grandma's house and this created a wonderful prompt which helped with oral storytelling.
The children made text-to-self connections with the story of Cinderella. We imagined what it would be like to have a Fairy God mother and wrote about what we would wish for. The children got very creative and drew their own Fairy God mother to match their writing. Their interpretations of what encompassed a Fairy God mother (and their wishes) was a great way to finish our unit.
The children were so inspired when they read these stories, that they wrote their own Fairy tale narratives. They planned, edited and illustrated their own books and absolutely loved putting a twist on some of the stories that we read and making them into their own. We would love for you to come in and read them and tell us how clever we are!
In Science we have been learning about chemical change and how materials can change when we heat and cool them. The children loved making spaghetti pictures with squishy, sticky, slimy cooked spaghetti and loved building towers with long, hard and straight uncooked spaghetti! We explored what happens when chocolate is melted (yum) and what happened when different materials like olive oil, yoghurt and water were frozen.
In Geography and Technology we were given the task of creating and designing our own classrooms. The children were given success criteria of making sure every child had somewhere to sit, having clear pathways between the furniture and having dedicated learning areas where they must clearly label the learning that occurs. They have absolutely loved this task and I can safely say, that we have some future interior designers in our midst!
In Maths we have been looking at multiplication and how numbers can be separated into groups and arrays. The children used their imagination and created their own array cities where they had to design arrays of squares which would represent the windows in their array buildings. Many of the children challenged themselves and even created arrays of 6 rows of 5. They have really enjoyed exploring the concept of multiplication through Art.
Phew! I think that is it, although
Sunday 26 November 2017
Week 7 Merit Awards
Congratulations to our week 7 Merit Award winners Hudson and Matilda! You are both Year One super stars!
Miss Prowse
Miss Prowse
Tuesday 21 November 2017
Week 7 Info
Our Silkworms
Have you seen the action going on in our silkworm tank? Our cocoons have hatched and the silkworms have re-emerged as moths! The Year Ones have been observing the silkworms mating and laying eggs. We have been learning about the lifespan of the moths and how to preserve the eggs for hatching next year. Ask your kids about what they know about these quirky creatures, they are very interesting indeed! Many thanks to Elsie and her family for donating the silkworms to the Year Ones. They have generated lots of inquiry and excitement within our classroom.
Vinnies Christmas Appeal
There is a box in the classroom for donations to the Vinnies Christmas Appeal. Some ideas for donations include: tins, pasta, rice, biscuits, crackers, sauces, jams, condiments, (basically any non-perishable good food, which can be used beyond Christmas). Thank you to those of you who have already contributed some generous donations to those who require our support at this special time of the year, which can be a difficult time for some families.
Think Mentals
The Think Mentals books are due in on Friday 1st December. The children should have completed Unit 24 by the end of next week. This will be the last Maths homework for the year. Thank you for working with your children to complete their Mental Maths homework this year. For those of you who may have some catching up to do, please endeavour to do what you can with your child. The remaining activities in the book may be good revision over the Christmas holidays before the children start Year 2.
Have a wonderful week!
Miss Prowse
Have you seen the action going on in our silkworm tank? Our cocoons have hatched and the silkworms have re-emerged as moths! The Year Ones have been observing the silkworms mating and laying eggs. We have been learning about the lifespan of the moths and how to preserve the eggs for hatching next year. Ask your kids about what they know about these quirky creatures, they are very interesting indeed! Many thanks to Elsie and her family for donating the silkworms to the Year Ones. They have generated lots of inquiry and excitement within our classroom.
Vinnies Christmas Appeal
There is a box in the classroom for donations to the Vinnies Christmas Appeal. Some ideas for donations include: tins, pasta, rice, biscuits, crackers, sauces, jams, condiments, (basically any non-perishable good food, which can be used beyond Christmas). Thank you to those of you who have already contributed some generous donations to those who require our support at this special time of the year, which can be a difficult time for some families.
Think Mentals
The Think Mentals books are due in on Friday 1st December. The children should have completed Unit 24 by the end of next week. This will be the last Maths homework for the year. Thank you for working with your children to complete their Mental Maths homework this year. For those of you who may have some catching up to do, please endeavour to do what you can with your child. The remaining activities in the book may be good revision over the Christmas holidays before the children start Year 2.
Have a wonderful week!
Miss Prowse
Saturday 18 November 2017
Week 6 Merit award winners
Congratulations to Eva and Olivia who were this weeks Merit Award winners. You are Both Year One super stars!
Miss Prowse
Miss Prowse
Sunday 12 November 2017
Week 6 information
Good afternoon parents,
I can't believe it is week 6 already! Only four glorious weeks left with your beautiful children - I'm not sure if I can hold it together :(
A few messages for this week...
I can't believe it is week 6 already! Only four glorious weeks left with your beautiful children - I'm not sure if I can hold it together :(
A few messages for this week...
Chicken Pox
There has been a reported case of the chicken pox in Year One. As there has only been one isolated case reported, we can not send out an official letter to parents just yet. Please visit your local GP if you have any concerns ASAP.
Washing of tea towels
It has been a busy term and we have been using a lot of tea towels in our wet area. I was just wondering if there was any parents that wouldn't mind taking home a bag of tea towels to wash? I will have a few bags at pick up today and tomorrow if you can help out - Thank you in advance!
OLC Christmas Concert and Awards Night
The annual OLC Christmas concert will be happening on Wednesday the 6th of December. This is not compulsory to attend but I know from personal experience that the children thoroughly enjoy the night!
Boardies Day
Boardies Day for Smith's Beach surf life saving club will be happening on Friday December 1st. The children are encouraged to come in their boardies and faction shirt and bring a gold coin donation to support a great community run club.
Orientation Day for Year Two
The children will be visiting their new Year Two class on Friday 1st of December and spend an hour with their new teacher experiencing a morning in their new class. I'm sure they will be very excited to meet their new teachers!
I think that is all for now...have a lovely afternoon.
Miss Prowse
Washing of tea towels
It has been a busy term and we have been using a lot of tea towels in our wet area. I was just wondering if there was any parents that wouldn't mind taking home a bag of tea towels to wash? I will have a few bags at pick up today and tomorrow if you can help out - Thank you in advance!
OLC Christmas Concert and Awards Night
The annual OLC Christmas concert will be happening on Wednesday the 6th of December. This is not compulsory to attend but I know from personal experience that the children thoroughly enjoy the night!
Boardies Day
Boardies Day for Smith's Beach surf life saving club will be happening on Friday December 1st. The children are encouraged to come in their boardies and faction shirt and bring a gold coin donation to support a great community run club.
Orientation Day for Year Two
The children will be visiting their new Year Two class on Friday 1st of December and spend an hour with their new teacher experiencing a morning in their new class. I'm sure they will be very excited to meet their new teachers!
I think that is all for now...have a lovely afternoon.
Miss Prowse
Star Citizen for Excellence
Congratulations to our Star Citizen for Excellence Emerson. You are a Year One super star!
Miss Prowse
Wednesday 8 November 2017
A post from Mrs. Harte
Dear Parents,
This week in Maths we have been learning all about capacity and volume. Students started their discovery of capacity with helping Goldilocks match three different sized cups to the three bears by measuring how many pom poms could fit into each cup. They learnt that the one with the most amount of pom poms must belong to papa bear, the one with the least amount of pom poms must belong to baby bear and therefore the middle sized one must be Mumma bears. On Wednesday the students got some hands on experience with capacity and volume with the Capacity Capers relay game. Students were put into teams and they had to transport 1000 millilitres of water from one tub to another using a sponge. We measured the volume of how much water was in the 2nd bucket to see which team had the most left. Students had a great time and sorry about the multicoloured hands.
I would also like to say that Friday will be my last day at OLC. I have had the most amazing time and will miss seeing the children's smiling faces everyday. I would like to say a big thank you to all the wonderful students in 1P for being so well behaved and such amazing learners and also a huge thank you to Miss Prowse for letting me take over her class and being such an exceptional teacher to learn from. Hopefully I will see you all again soon.
From Mrs Harte
Monday 6 November 2017
Week 4 Merit Award winners
Congratulations to Kai and Timothy who were this week's Merit Award winners. You are both Year One super stars!
Miss Prowse
Miss Prowse
Wednesday 1 November 2017
A Post from Mrs. Harte
Dear Parents,
I have now been part of 1P for 2 and a half weeks now and we have been having so much fun. I have enjoyed working with every student in the class and they all have been so well behaved and accepted me with open arms.
We have been doing some amazing learning over the past couple of weeks in 1P. In Maths we have been learning all about Data collecting and displaying the data in different graphs, along with some pretty tasty data collection about Jelly beans. In Science we have been learning all about Chemical science and how heat can change materials such as spaghetti. We had a lot of fun making some pretty crazy spaghetti drawings with cooked spaghetti, which the children came up with some awesome ideas. (Personally I think my idea of Mr Wilkie's office filled with spaghetti was pretty cool!!!) We also got to make some spaghetti towers using uncooked spaghetti and marshmallows. I believe the winning group made a tower that stood 49cm tall!!!
I can't wait to see what the next 2 and a half weeks has installed and the great learning and fun we are going to have. Thank you for a great first couple of weeks.
Mrs Tanya Harte
Week 3 Merit Award winners
Congratulations to our Week 3 Merit Award winner Maisey Coyle! You are a Year One super star!
Miss Prowse
Miss Prowse
Monday 30 October 2017
Would You Like A Pet Silkworm?
Over the last few weeks 1R and 1P have been looking after silk worms. They have loved feeding the silkworms and watching them grow. As the silk worms have grown they have become too big and we need to re-home a few. If your child would like to take a silkworm home to have as a pet, they can bring in a jar or shoe box to school. All they need to look after the silkworms is a container preferably a cardboard box and lots of mulberry leaves. This website has lots of information on how to look after silkworms.
Silkworm Information
Silkworm Information
Sunday 22 October 2017
Data Delight!
This week the children in Year 1P have been learning how to read, analyse and interpret data. When we first began out unit, we looked at our learning intentions and success criteria. This helped us to understand what data was and how we know we are successful when we represent, analyse and interpret it. Here is an example of our learning.
We then talked about ways we can gather data and we found the best way was to ask questions to find an answer. After this discussion we got down to the fun stuff...analysing data from an m&m packet. The children had to first estimate how many m&m' s were in the packet and then they used tally marks to represent the colours of each of the m&m's. The children then had to represent their tallies in a bar graph and give it a title, labels on the side and bottom and then analyse their data by answering questions.
The children loved this activity and found it extra delicious! Here are some photos of their findings.
We then talked about ways we can gather data and we found the best way was to ask questions to find an answer. After this discussion we got down to the fun stuff...analysing data from an m&m packet. The children had to first estimate how many m&m' s were in the packet and then they used tally marks to represent the colours of each of the m&m's. The children then had to represent their tallies in a bar graph and give it a title, labels on the side and bottom and then analyse their data by answering questions.
The children loved this activity and found it extra delicious! Here are some photos of their findings.
The children have also looked at random data and how they can analyse it in a picture graph. The children were asked to roll a dice with different coloured cars on it. The aim of the game was to see which coloured car would win the race to the end. It was interesting for us to find that no one's picture graph was the same! Here are some pictures of us playing our data race game :)
We have loved learning about Data!
Miss Prowse
Week 2 Merit Award Winner
Congratulations to Flynn Rogan our Week 2 Merit award winner! You are a Year One super star Flynn!
Miss Prowse
Miss Prowse
Thursday 19 October 2017
Fairytales and math learning come together!
So far this term the Year One children have been exploring the writing and story structure of fairytales. So far, we have looked at the stories of Little Red Riding hood and Jack and the beanstalk.
We have also been learning about data in Maths and how we can ask a question and then we can collect information about that question. Today these two concepts came together and we were able to formulate a question - 'What is your favourite fairy tale?'. The children have been exposed to both picturegraphs and bar graphs so together as a class, we came up with the best way to represent our data.
First the children talked to each other and discussed their fairytales and which ones they liked. The children then received a small piece of paper and we drew a picture of their favourite fairytale, the title and then their name. We collated our data, put it onto our picture graph and reviewed our results. We found out that the 'other fairytales' was the most popular in our class.
We loved formulating questions about our data and then talking about it together.
Miss Prowse
We have also been learning about data in Maths and how we can ask a question and then we can collect information about that question. Today these two concepts came together and we were able to formulate a question - 'What is your favourite fairy tale?'. The children have been exposed to both picturegraphs and bar graphs so together as a class, we came up with the best way to represent our data.
First the children talked to each other and discussed their fairytales and which ones they liked. The children then received a small piece of paper and we drew a picture of their favourite fairytale, the title and then their name. We collated our data, put it onto our picture graph and reviewed our results. We found out that the 'other fairytales' was the most popular in our class.
We loved formulating questions about our data and then talking about it together.
Miss Prowse
Friday 13 October 2017
Prac Student Tanya Harte
Good afternoon parents,
Please read a little bit about our new ECU practicum student who will be starting in our class next week :)
Hello my name is Tanya Harte,
I am a second year Primary Education student at Edith Cowan University. Starting Monday I will be coming into 1P to participate in a Teaching Practicum for 4 weeks. I have lived in Dunsborough for almost 2 years now and love being so close to the beach.
I currently work as a special needs education assistant in Busselton which I absolutely love. My passion is all things Music. I completed a Diploma in music at WA Academy of Performing Arts and my dream is to become a primary school music teacher when I finish my degree. I can play the Piano, Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone and love to sing as well.
Hopefully I will get a chance to have some fun with Music over the next 4 weeks while I'm at Our Lady Of The Cape. I can't wait to meet all of you and the fun we are going to have
Tanya Harte
I Hope you have a lovely weekend and enjoy this sunshine!
Miss Prowse
Please read a little bit about our new ECU practicum student who will be starting in our class next week :)
Hello my name is Tanya Harte,
I am a second year Primary Education student at Edith Cowan University. Starting Monday I will be coming into 1P to participate in a Teaching Practicum for 4 weeks. I have lived in Dunsborough for almost 2 years now and love being so close to the beach.
I currently work as a special needs education assistant in Busselton which I absolutely love. My passion is all things Music. I completed a Diploma in music at WA Academy of Performing Arts and my dream is to become a primary school music teacher when I finish my degree. I can play the Piano, Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone and love to sing as well.
Hopefully I will get a chance to have some fun with Music over the next 4 weeks while I'm at Our Lady Of The Cape. I can't wait to meet all of you and the fun we are going to have
Tanya Harte
I Hope you have a lovely weekend and enjoy this sunshine!
Miss Prowse
Week 1 Merit Awards
Congratulations to this weeks Merit Award winners Miah and Aurelia. You are both Year One super stars!
Miss Prowse
Miss Prowse
Monday 9 October 2017
Term Four Update
Good Afternoon Parents,
I hope you all had a lovely holiday with your children over the past two weeks. We certainly had some exciting holiday news to share with each other this morning!
Here are a few things to not as we commence Term Four of Year One.
I hope you all had a lovely holiday with your children over the past two weeks. We certainly had some exciting holiday news to share with each other this morning!
Here are a few things to not as we commence Term Four of Year One.
Think Mentals/Homework
Next Friday 20th October units 17 and 18 are due to be completed in the Think Mentals book. Sight words and home readers are continuing as a part of our homework program in Term Four. Please remember to note each text that your child reads in their reading logs to avoid the same readers going home multiple times.
Please see below for a timetable of when Think Mentals are due:
Next Friday 20th October units 17 and 18 are due to be completed in the Think Mentals book. Sight words and home readers are continuing as a part of our homework program in Term Four. Please remember to note each text that your child reads in their reading logs to avoid the same readers going home multiple times.
Please see below for a timetable of when Think Mentals are due:
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Think Mentals Due Date
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Week
2
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Units
17 and 18
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Friday
20th October
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Week
4
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Units
19 and 20
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Friday
3rd November
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Week
6
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Units
21 and 22
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Friday
17th November
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Week
8
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Units
23 and 24
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Friday
1st December
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Calendar Orders
Our Calendar Art is in a display file by the classroom door. If you would like to purchase your child's artwork orders need to be in by this Friday 13th October.
Prac Student
Next week we will have Mrs. Tanya Harte commencing her four week teaching prac in our classroom. The Year Ones already had a visit from Mrs. Harte last term. Stay tuned for more information about Mrs. Harte on our upcoming blog posts.
Rosters
The news roster for Term 4 went home today and our Parent Help Roster is up on the pin up board outside the classroom. Due to Mrs. Harte being here from weeks 2-5 we are not requesting parent help until week 6 of this term.
Please see below for the news roster if yours has gone walk abouts :)
Please see below for the news roster if yours has gone walk abouts :)
Assembly
Year 1R and 1P are coming together to present a Prayer Assembly on Friday 20th October (week 2). By the end of this week, some children will have reading parts to practice in their homework folders. Your assistance with helping at home is much appreciated!
Absentee Notes
Since last term, I have been collating absentee notes (a very fun job) but I may have either missed or not received some notes from people so I will be sending some absentee follow ups home during the week. If you could please sign these and bring them back to school ASAP, that would make my day :)
Have a great first week!
Absentee Notes
Since last term, I have been collating absentee notes (a very fun job) but I may have either missed or not received some notes from people so I will be sending some absentee follow ups home during the week. If you could please sign these and bring them back to school ASAP, that would make my day :)
Have a great first week!
Miss Prowse
Friday 6 October 2017
Star Citizen for Respect
Congratulations to our Star Citizen for Respect Cruz. You are a Year One super star!
Miss Prowse
Miss Prowse
Thursday 21 September 2017
End of Term Three Information
Shoe Boxes
Thank you all for your generous donations with the shoe boxes. They are being picked up this Friday and will be sent off to reach their destination by Christmas. The children had fun putting their items together and boxing their gifts up during our Religion lesson last week.
Think Mentals
This Friday units 15 and 16 are due to be completed in the Think Mentals book. During the week we reviewed the concept of 'near doubles', an important mental calculation strategy that is addressed in the Think Mentals text.
Spelling/Sight Word Revision
Below is the link to the spelling sounds covered in our differentiated spelling groups this term:
Although there is no homework allocated for holidays, it would be a great idea to revise the sounds that your child had been learning in their spelling group across the term. Just ask your child what colour group they are in! The holidays are also a fantastic time to revise sight words, I will make sure that all homework folders go home over the holidays so that your child has their sight words at home.
Calendar Orders
Our Calendar Art is in a display file by the classroom door. If you would like to purchase your child's artwork orders need to be in by Friday 13th October (week 1 of next term).
Prac Student
In week 2 next term we will have Mrs Tanya Harte completing her four week teaching prac in our classroom. The Year Ones have already had a visit from Mrs Harte this week. Stay tuned for more information about Mrs Harte on our upcoming blog posts.
Colouring In Competition
Last week, some colouring in forms went home for the South West Wellness Expo. If your child wishes to enter their colouring into the competition, their entry must be at school by this Friday (tomorrow).
Rosters
The news roster for Term 4 went home today and our Parent Help Roster is up on the pin up board outside the classroom. Due to Mrs Harte being here from weeks 2-5 we are not requesting parent help until week 6 of next term.
Chicken Pox
There has been a reported case of the chicken pox in Year One. As there has only been one case reported, we can not send out an official letter to parents just yet. Please visit your local GP if you have any concerns over the holidays.
Assembly
Year 1P and 1R are coming together to present a Prayer Assembly on Friday 20th October (week 2). There will be no costumes required for this assembly and we will send allocated reading parts home early next term.
Thank you all for another wonderful term in Year One! I hope you enjoy a lovely holiday making the most of the time you have with your families. Bring on the Spring sunshine and warm weather again!
Have a great holiday!
Miss Prowse
Saturday 16 September 2017
Wonnerup House Excursion
On Friday the 15th of September, the Year One class set off on an excursion to Wonnerup house, just outside of Busselton, near the Tuart Forest.
The children were very excited to be in their olden day clothes and loved comparing the clothing from the olden days to today. We hopped on the bus and although there were a lot of 'are we there yet?' questions, the children were excited to be going to visit 'the old place where they had no internet' - as quoted by one of the children.
We started the excursion with a 15 minute video about the history of Wonnerup House to which we found out that the whole community burnt down and had to be rebuilt!
We then set off in our groups with our wonderful parent helpers and started to explore the amazing grounds. We visited The Main House, The Black Smith shop, The Stables, The Dairy Kitchen and finally (and a personal) favourite The old School House. The children loved learning about all the olden day things like the wash board, the chamber pot, the Grandfather clock and many more!
The children absolutely loved looking at all the different things that the children in the past had encounter. The cane was one of the more fascinating features and the simple teachers house just metres away from the school was also an interesting facet to look at.... The fact that the teachers house was so close must have meant he or she would have been extremely dedicated to their job - or could run home for lunch easily!
We then had our lunch and participated in a variety of olden day games including cricket, quoits, hoola hooping, skipping and good old fashioned hide and seek. The sun came out throughout the day and some of the Mum's loved sun baking and catching a glimpse of that Spring sun.
It was an absolutely wonderful day and it wouldn't have been possible without the help of our wonderful parents: Kim, Holly, Rebecca and Cath (and James).
The children had a wonderful time learning about children in the 'Olden Days'.
A BIG thank you to everyone who organised costumes too, they loved being brought back into the past :)
Miss Prowse
The children were very excited to be in their olden day clothes and loved comparing the clothing from the olden days to today. We hopped on the bus and although there were a lot of 'are we there yet?' questions, the children were excited to be going to visit 'the old place where they had no internet' - as quoted by one of the children.
We started the excursion with a 15 minute video about the history of Wonnerup House to which we found out that the whole community burnt down and had to be rebuilt!
We then set off in our groups with our wonderful parent helpers and started to explore the amazing grounds. We visited The Main House, The Black Smith shop, The Stables, The Dairy Kitchen and finally (and a personal) favourite The old School House. The children loved learning about all the olden day things like the wash board, the chamber pot, the Grandfather clock and many more!
The children absolutely loved looking at all the different things that the children in the past had encounter. The cane was one of the more fascinating features and the simple teachers house just metres away from the school was also an interesting facet to look at.... The fact that the teachers house was so close must have meant he or she would have been extremely dedicated to their job - or could run home for lunch easily!
We then had our lunch and participated in a variety of olden day games including cricket, quoits, hoola hooping, skipping and good old fashioned hide and seek. The sun came out throughout the day and some of the Mum's loved sun baking and catching a glimpse of that Spring sun.
It was an absolutely wonderful day and it wouldn't have been possible without the help of our wonderful parents: Kim, Holly, Rebecca and Cath (and James).
The children had a wonderful time learning about children in the 'Olden Days'.
A BIG thank you to everyone who organised costumes too, they loved being brought back into the past :)
Miss Prowse
Week 9 Merit Award winner
Congratulations to our Week 9 Merit Award winner Jack! You are a Year One Super Star!
Miss Prowse
Miss Prowse
Week 8 Merit Award winners
Congratulations to Xavier and Kane who were the week 8 Merit Award winners. You are both Year One superstars!
Miss Prowse
Miss Prowse
2017 Faction Sports Carnival!
On Thursday 14th September, OLC held their annual faction carnival. It was an absolutely beautiful spring day and the children came to school extremely excited to start the carnival!
The children looked outstanding in their coloured zinc, face paint and coloured hairspray! The excitement continued as the children went into their faction bays and loved joining in with the older children cheering for the team.
I'm not sure, but I think the motivation of lollies from the faction captains might have made the children cheer extra hard. The running races were a great indication of just how fast our year ones are! They would definitely leave me behind in the 50m sprint!
The team games were a hit and I think one of the favourites of the day had to be 'stone, bridge, tree' and the flag relay!
Congratulations to our runner up champion boy Hudson and our champion boy Kai and our runner up champion girl Piper and champion girl Leila.
A big thank you to all the parents who helped with the event coordination, the set up and pack up and a HUGE thank you to Mrs. Sinclair for the wonderful day she put together.
Have a lovely day!
Miss Prowse
The children looked outstanding in their coloured zinc, face paint and coloured hairspray! The excitement continued as the children went into their faction bays and loved joining in with the older children cheering for the team.
I'm not sure, but I think the motivation of lollies from the faction captains might have made the children cheer extra hard. The running races were a great indication of just how fast our year ones are! They would definitely leave me behind in the 50m sprint!
The team games were a hit and I think one of the favourites of the day had to be 'stone, bridge, tree' and the flag relay!
Congratulations to our runner up champion boy Hudson and our champion boy Kai and our runner up champion girl Piper and champion girl Leila.
A big thank you to all the parents who helped with the event coordination, the set up and pack up and a HUGE thank you to Mrs. Sinclair for the wonderful day she put together.
Have a lovely day!
Miss Prowse
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