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News from Room 9 - F/1L. (Nicole Lowe)

Literacy: Writers and Authors keep a Writer’s Notebook.

Our Writer’s Notebook is a collection or record of our memories, people/places/things/activities that we love. We then use our writer’s Notebook to inspire our ideas for writing.

Many of the children in our room made some holiday entries into their Writer’s Notebook. Here are some photos of our writing this week.

Numeracy: This week we have been revising number lines. We have worked on identifying numbers that are represented on a number line and placing numbers on a prepared number line.

We have started learning about money. We have set up a Pizza Shop in our classroom to help us learn more about money.

Over the term we will be learning to recognise, describe and order Australian coins according to their value.

Here are some snaps of our Maths this week.

Wilson Corner

This term we will be looking at the virtues and actions which lead to empathy. Empathy has been identified as an essential character trait for a socially and emotionally intelligent member of society. The first two virtues are friendliness and resilience.

VIRTUE – FRIENDLINESS

ACTIONS

The habit of being interested in others.
The habit of sharing your time, ideas, feelings, belongings and yourself with others.
The habit of saying and doing things to lessen the labour of others. (helpfulness)

We will:

Not deliberately hurt other people’s bodies or feelings;
Take care of property and the environment;
Be friendly even to those who aren’t our friends;
Remember that what we do can sometimes hurt others, so we must act safely;
Listen beyond what is said to how it is said.

VIRTUE – persistence/resilience

ACTIONS

The habit of trying again and again without complaint or the need for reward.
The habit of accepting failure as the stepping stone to success and bouncing back.
The habit of seeing problems and difficulties as things you can do something about to make better.

We will:

keep trying even when we make mistakes or fail;
trust our teachers and give things a go even if we don’t like those things or find them hard;
have really good reasons for not giving something a go;
look inside ourselves for the bravery we need.