Year 1 

Spotlight on Learning

Dear Families,

Warm regards,

The Jerusalem Community Team 

Important Reminders

1. Term 1 is a SunSmart term and 'No hat, no play', please ensure your child has their school hat everyday.
2. All students are expected to wear full St Thomas’ school uniform — either summer, or PE is fine, but it must be the official school uniform. 
3. Reading daily is a big factor in academic progression. Students should read everyday to a parent or family member to increase their word/sound knowledge.
4. Lunchboxes should include fruit or vegetables and lunch to fuel students for learning throughout the day.

This week:

Award Winners - Awards are handed out to students who show exemplary school values of Safety, Respect and Learning each week during weekly community assembly. If your child receives an award, but is absent on Friday, they will receive their award during the next weekly assembly.

Literacy-Phonics - Students learnt the   - - y (long e) sound and compared it to the other spellings of this sound from last week using ea and ee. They also explored pairs homophones which are words that sound the same but different meanings and spellings. 

Literacy- Writing - We continue reading "Season's" by Aunty Munya Andrews. This non-fiction text shares knowledge about the seasons as determined by the Bardi people of the Kimberly region in Western Australia. Students learn new vocabulary and indigenous words like "gooril" which means turtle in the Bardi language.

 Students listen to the book and write a response to the text. 

At Home: Discuss what students have learnt from this information text. What changes do they notice over time as the weather changes in your local environment? Do you see different animals or plants and what do trees look like in different seasons.

Mathematics - This week, we learnt about the concept of "renaming" also known as non standard partitioning. This is the skill of understanding that a number can be represented in different ways. For example 45 could be 5 tens and 5 ones or 3 tens and 15 ones. 

Students showed great learning in challenging their thinking around the "renaming" of numbers. Learning about how a number could be represented like 36 could be 3 tens and 6 ones or 2 tens and 16 ones.  

At home:  Have a go at finding different objects at home, grouping them into tens and ones. 

Integrated Studies - Students are learning about the Boonwurrung seasons. Students explored nature on a short walk through the school grounds. They noticed things like the change in weather, the leaves on the trees and different animals around the area.

At Home: Go on a short nature walk and encourage your child to describe what they see, hear or feel. 

Religious Education - We discussed the story of Jonah and his message from God. 

Social & Emotional Learning - In SEL, our Year 1 students are learning to recognise different feelings and understand what situations might cause those feelings. Through class discussions, stories, and activities, they are building their emotional awareness and learning new words to describe how they feel.

At Home: Discuss self-regulation strategies and what children can use to support their learning.

AUSLAN - This week we tested student knowledge through AUSLAN games and teacher observations.

Next week

Reading - We learn a new sound "igh" and "ie".

Writing - We are reading the book "Somebody's Land" by Adam Goodes and writing a response to this book.

Mathematics-  We are focusing on addition, working on partitioning numbers to 20. 

Religious Education - We begin to learn about Holy week and Caritas.

Social Emotional Learning - We are focusing on how different experiences/situations cause different emotions.

Integrated Studies - We are learning about First Nation's people connecting to Country.

Ways to engage with the newsletter:

• Read the weekly book with your child at home (there is often a read aloud on you tube). Talk about what the book's most important ideas are.

• Ask your child to retell the story using their own words.

• Talk about who the characters are, where the story is happening.

• Use the spelling words provided to make up sentences at home or simply a 5 word mini dictation.

• Take the idea around Mathematics and ask students to repeat an activity they did at school, with you.

   

Important Dates

• TERM 1 Key Dates
• Monday 9 March - Public Holiday — School Closed

• Thursday 2 April - Holy Thursday — Last Day of Term 1

   

  TERM 2 Key Dates

• Tuesday 21 April — First Day for Students

Contact Us @ Jerusalem

jerusalem@cranbourneeast.catholic.edu.auOR

The Jerusalem Team