Friday, May 30, 2014
Disco next week
Parents, we will have a school disco next week on Friday. Please read the notice that was sent home today with your child. A poster is in the window of our classroom too.
Painting with cardboard
We learnt how to scrape paint onto our paper using a piece of cardboard. We are using this experience as a practice for painting our World War 1 commemorative poppies.
Crazy Hat & Hair
We came with the most amazing hair and costumes today. We enjoyed having our hair done up by our mums! Sammi from our class was the joint winner of the title of 'The Craziest Hair'. Congratulations, Sammi!
Drum Rolls...
Kingston received a certificate at assembly today for being hardworking, conscientious and focused in his work in class. He has been a good participant in class activities. Well done, Kingston!
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Math Time
Today we learnt to order numbers 11- 20. We took turns to practice our numbers on iPads, making the number worm, matching the numbers and words to the ladybird and reading the numbers on the board.
Ice cream containers needed
Next week we want to make a mini worm farm but we need some plastic ice cream containers. Do you have any you could give us please?
Sharing our news
Arnav loves tow trucks and is eager to share that passion. Kerisha told us how she made a painted rainbow and added glitter before it dried. Kaylah explained how she designed an aeroplane from Lego.
Brain Break
We had a brain break and earned minutes to make our class GoNoodle avatar grow larger! We worked so hard that we reached level 2!
Checking our work
We are learning to write Casey Shapes the right size. Some of us need practice at starting at the right place. We did a little practice today.
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Bowling in the classroom!
We practiced recognising numbers today in a fun way. We played ten pin bowling and had to identify the number of the bottle we knocked over!
Lovely handwriting
These three lovelies did amazing handwriting this morning. They kept all the Casey Shapes the right size!
Best work
These two ladies completed our letter s tasks so beautifully. We thought we should show you how tidy their work is!
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
More Treasures
Our friends brought interesting treasures to share with us. Sydney drew a picture remembering her great-great-great grandfather who died during the war. Harry shared the line and circle patterns he made. Corin told us about the movie cards he collected and Bella the groovy monkey she brought to class. Arnav brought another truck drawing with a vehicle that had a flat tyre hidden in it. Kaylah shared her colourful 'I Love School' drawing. Alex showed us the spider he found in his garden and Claire brought apple food scraps for the worms. They are so interesting. We loved to hear about our friends' treasures.
Crazy Hat/Hair Day
Don't forget to plan your crazy hat/hair for this Friday. Set aside your mufti clothes and a gold coin! If you do, you will help raise money for a bigger swimming pool for our school.
First iPad experience
Some children were super excited today to play on our new iPads! Liam was especially happy because it was his first time to use an iPad!
Cutting & Pasting
Cutting skills are very important in Year 1. We do at least one cut and paste activity each day. Today we had to count the 'shoes' on some centipedes then cut the right number out to match.
Brain Break
We had a 'brain break' today and learnt some relaxation and refocusing techniques. The instructions were to move our heads slowly from side to side while we sat up straight and tall.
Casey Shapes
We revised the names of some Casey Shapes when making a repeating pattern. Can you name the shapes we used?
Monday, May 26, 2014
Fun with our IPads
Some more children had their turn with the IPads today. We are using them at Math time, so we can only play games that help us learn numbers.
And now there are 30!
Today our class grew by two! We now have 30 children in Room 19. Welcome to our two newest ladies - Sammi and Rowan.
See
The word we focused on today in our poem was 'see'.
Miss Bland drew eyes on the word 'see' because we need eyes to see! Hopefully it will help us remember our new Sight Word too!
Thinking about /s/ words
The sound of the week is /s/ in Room 19 this week. We already know a lot of words that start with /s/.
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