Jerusalem Community

Dear Families,

We were blessed with beautiful weather for our excursion to Moonlit Sanctuary on Monday! The students thoroughly enjoyed exploring the sanctuary and discovering a wide variety of Australian wildlife. One of the biggest surprises of the day was learning that koala joeys eat their mother’s poo to help develop the gut bacteria they need to digest eucalyptus leaves! This certainly caused a few disgusted reactions!

The rest of the week was busy as we reflected on our excursion and wrapped up our learning about place value. In Integrated Studies, students began creating their own felt puppets in preparation for their upcoming classroom puppet shows. The performances will be based on the birth of Jesus, bringing together creativity, storytelling and our learning about the Christmas story.

We look forward to another wonderful week of learning next week. Have a lovely weekend!

Kind regards,

The Year 1 Team

Next  Week :

Religious Education: We continue to learn about Jesus's journey from a child to the first steps in his mission. We learn about all the important people in his life and how different events are portrayed in the Bible. We learn about the relevance of these messages to us now.

Writing:  Next week, we are going to be reading the story "Come down cat" by Soyna Hartnett. We will be having a look at the adjectives and adverbs used in the story. 

Reading: Next week in Reading, students will explore spelling patterns, learning when to drop the ‘e’ and add ‘ing’ and when to double the final consonant. They will also investigate synonyms and antonyms, learning about words with similar and opposite meanings.

Mathematics:  We will learn more about addition and subtraction. We will continue to do purposeful practice to help increase our fluency in math.

Integrated Curriculum: We will continue to develop our felt puppets, add features, or details and practice our plays about Jesus's life.

Social Emotional learning: Next week, we are learning about Day for Daniel. Teaching students about what to do if they are in an unsafe situation.

Auslan:  Students will learn more about Unit 7 and 8 which includes colours and animals.

What you can do at home

• Listen to your child read regularly and encourage them to use their decoding strategies when they come to an unfamiliar word.

• After reading, ask your child to retell what happened, share their favourite part, or explain how a character was feeling.

• Re-reading familiar texts is a great way to build confidence, fluency and expression.

• Notice numbers in everyday places and ask questions like, “What do they know?”, “How do you know?” or "Are you sure?"

• A curious question to ask this week could be: What do you notice about the world around you?

Important Classroom Reminders:

• Fidget Toys

  We kindly ask that students do not bring fidget toys to school unless their use is a planned adjustment in consultation with Allied Health Professionals. 

  Students who bring fidget toys without an approved adjustment will be asked to place them in their school bag for the remainder of the day to take home. 

  We appreciate your support in encouraging your child to leave fidget toys at home.

• Spare clothes/change of clothes

  Please pack spare clothes with a pair of socks and underwear to be placed in the front zip pocket of your child's school bag in case of a toileting accident or i they get muddy during recess and play time. 

• Please ensure that you are labelling all your child's belongings.

Important Dates to Remember:

• Fri 30th October- World Teacher's Day - Add a note of thanks here
• Monday, 2nd November - School Closure
• Tuesday, 3rd November - Cup Day Public Holiday
• Monday, 30th November - F-2 Athletics Day
• Tuesday, 1st December - Christmas Carols
• Friday, 11th December - Last day of Formal Classes

Enjoy your weekend,

The Jerusalem Team

Contact us @ Jerusalem

jerusalem@cranbourneeast.catholic.edu.au(all teachers) or