Term 3 weeks 7 and 8

Term 3 weeks 7 and 8

Congratulations to our Year 1 Public Speaking Semi Finalists

Our Beautiful Princesses... Dress ups for Ball House charity for Anglicare 

Working Hard in Year 1

Working with Bee Boots in ICT

Communication Games in our Grammar lessons

Term 3 Weeks 7-8

Happy Fathers’ Day

 

Dad… You’re a Legend because… Loving Quotes from Year 1

He helps me a lot, and he plays with me.

He tickles me so much and we read stories together. I love my dad.

He loves me and he is kind and he helps other people.

He is clever and he helps me with everything.

He cares about me. He loves me.

He always takes me to fun places and we do fun things together.

My dad is the best dad in the world!

We wish all our Fathers a very Happy Fathers’ Day

Last week there was a certain buzz around the school as we celebrated Father’s Day. The tell tale signs have been the excitement of purchasing something from the Fathers’ Day stall, the pride from the cards that have been written and the drawings that have been created about fathers. We hope you had an enjoyable Fathers’ Day.

Thank you for your cooperation and support.

Mrs Lena Cooper and Mrs Alison Larkin

Father’s Day Stall

A huge thank you to all the mums who manned our Father’s Day Stall this week so that the girls could carefully choose that special gift for their dads. We want to wish all our dads a wonderful Father’s Day and we're sure you will love your presents!

Stage 1 Public Speaking Assembly

Students enjoyed listening to the presentations by our Stage 1 Public Speaking finalists. Congratulations to all finalists for their fine efforts. Stage 1 also performed a song they learned from chapel, 'Superchef'. Public Speaking has been a valuable experience in developing student's ability to articulate ideas clearly and consistently. We have enjoyed listening to all the speeches and seeing students develop their public speaking skills. 

Photos

Teachers are regularly posting photos of excursions and various activities the girls participate in. These photos are just snapshots and don’t always include a picture of each student. We request that you please don’t email the teachers asking for photos of your child, as they don’t always have one. Unfortunately time restraints do not always allow the opportunity to photograph every student.

Book Week & Book Fair

We celebrated Book Week last week with performances by Meerkat Productions. It was wonderful to see excited faces on the girls as they left the book fair with their new books under their arms. Thank you to all who purchased books. Over $7000 was spent which means we will be able to donate approx. $700 of books to the Anglicare Toys ‘n Tucker Christmas Appeal. Thank you to Mrs Jamieson for organising these events.

Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards

On Friday the Children’s Book Council of Australia announced the Book of the Year Awards. Margaret Hamilton, deputy chair of the awards said, “One of the greatest joys of life is sharing a book with a child. Sharing a tablet with a child just doesn’t have it.” I couldn’t agree more, as this is something I experience every day!

The Children’s Book Council of Australia has announced the awards for 2017

And the winners are…

The Book of the Year: Younger Readers 

“Rockhopping” (Trace Bella)

Honour Books: 

“Dragonfly Song” (Wendy Orr)

“Jimmy Cook Discovers Third Grade” (Kate and Jol Temple)

Book of the Year: Early Childhood

“Go Home, Cheeky Animals” (Johanna Bell)

Honour Books:

“Nannie Loves” (Kylie Dunstan)

“Gary” (Leila Rudge) (my personal choice).

Picture Book of the Year 

“Home in the Rain” (Bob Graham)….his seventh award in this category!

Honour Books:

“Mechanica” (Lance Bekchin)

“The Patchwork Bike” (Van T. Rudd)

Eve Pownall Award for Information Books:

“Amazing Animals of Australia’s National Parks” (Gina Newton)

Honour Books:

“A-Z of Endangered Animals” (Jennifer Cossins)

“The Gigantic Book of Genes” (Lorna Hendry)

Crichton Award for Debut Illustrator:

Van T. Rudd for “The Patchwork Bike”

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

       

We all know how difficult cohabitation can be…even when it involves our nearest and dearest. Gabrielle Tozer explores this subject in “Peas and Quiet”, where two friends (peas), Pip and Pop, share a peapod. Their problems include Pip’s singing and Pop’s snoring, sound familiar? Pip moves out, and at first Pop enjoys the extra space and peace, but soon loneliness takes over and she is so relieved when Pip returns. This is obviously one that adults as well as children, will be able to relate to. This is a terrific book for the littlies to explore friendship and to learn to allow for differences.

Ashley Spires has written another heart warming story about Lou, “The Thing Lou Couldn’t Do”. Although Lou has always been an intrepid adventurer, when her friend suggests building a pirate ship in a tree, Lou comes up with a million and one reasons for not joining in THIS adventure. She has never climbed a tree before! Lou, of course, faces her fears and all ends well. This is another great story where the characters demonstrate the dispositions we encourage at school.

Stop! Think! Do!

In the playground, students have been reminded to ‘Stop, Think, Do.’ They have been watching out for emotions and then using a traffic light system to remind them to: 1 – stop when something happens, 2 – think about the options, and then 3 – act on the best one; and then repeat as necessary. Parents, look out for times where your children might be stopping before reacting, especially if they feel mistreated or they see something unfair. You might notice something different, and be able to support them, in how they stop, think and do!

Student Health

Throughout this term many girls have come down with flu symptoms and gastro bugs. It is the season! If your daughter does become infected, we ask that you give her at least 24 hours at home after the symptoms have disappeared before she returns to school. Returning too early has meant that we have very weak and tired girls in the classroom and some are having ‘accidents’ before their tummies have returned to normal. We are keen to minimise the spread of these infections and it is also best to let your daughters return to full health first.

Healthy Snippets

Turn off the TV and get active How much time does your child spend in front of a screen? Whether it’s the TV, computer or hand-held games. Australian guidelines recommend that kids spend no more than 2 hours each day in front of the screen. Aim to prioritise being physically active first and save the screen time for later. Give it a go, you might be surprised to find that reducing the screen time also improves your communication with your child. For more information on reducing screen time and getting active visit www.healthykids.nsw.gov.au

Weeks 7 and 8 in Year 1:

Mathematics- 2D shapes, 3D objects, Position, Directions, Missing Numbers and Number Patterns.

Writing- We continued work on our unit on Belonging. Students read ‘Mutt Dog’ by Stephen Michael King and ‘Four Feet Two Sandals’ by Karen Lyn Williams.

Grammar- Questions, Commands and Correct Words

PDHPE- Term 3 unit ‘Staying Safe’

Reading- We completed guided reading activities in class.

Topic Talks- Students spoke about their ideal weather.

Visual Arts- Year 1 created Kandinsky artwork.

Science- Students are learning about the new unit ‘Up, Down and All Around.’ We are investigating the changes in Seasons and the Weather.

HSIE- Term 1 topic ‘Seasons.’