Prep,1 & 2 Classroom News 2
Prep News
St Patrick’s Day
We celebrated St Patrick's day yesterday wearing a touch of green. We loved celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in Prep. We read a story about a Leprechaun and made dancing shamrock men and 2-D shape rainbows. We also did some Irish Dancing as a busy break. Take a look -
The children attended the liturgy. We looked at the history of St Patrick through stories and the students are also excitedly designing and building leprechaun traps!
Literacy
We have very excitedly been exploring and using the MSL approach each day in our class. The children have been working really hard doing their MSL sound packs each morning. (See Principal news). We are building on the knowledge and training Kate Stroud has undertaken, to implement this in our morning routine.
Maths
In Maths we are loving our warm up game ‘Race to 10’ using dice, counters and tens frames. We are learning to count and add numbers to 10. We began looking at 2D Shapes this week including squares, triangles, circles and rectangles. We were learning to describe shapes, talking about the number of sides and corners, making shapes using craft sticks and playdough and how we can sort different shapes. We made 2D shape rainbows for our Term 1 Math Project.
Bronagh Maloney
bmaloney@shsandringham.catholic.edu.au
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R.E
We enjoyed dressing up in a touch of green for St Patrick's day yesterday.
The children attended the St Patrick’s Day liturgy. We looked at the history of St Patrick through stories and the students are also excitedly designing and building leprechaun traps!
Literacy
We have very excitedly been exploring and using the MSL approach each day in our classes. We are building on the knowledge and training Kate Stroud has undertaken, to implement this in our morning routine. Currently, we are looking at the vowel sounds. Ask your child to show you how we are practicing this in class using hand movements.
The students are enjoying letter writing. Learning about the structure, format and purpose of a letter has enabled the students to have a go at writing to various people including Miss Rafferty in Ireland!
Maths
Shapes - We have been learning about 2D and 3D, properties of shapes, features, models of shapes in preparation to design and use this shape knowledge to make Leprechaun traps!
Our focus on number strategies this past week has been subitising and bridging through ten. Kids have explored this through games, concrete materials targeted focus groups with the teacher. See below for examples of these strategies
Respectful Relationships
Children were introduced to character strengths. We continue to unpack these through stories and role-play. Children worked in groups to plan and rehearse a chosen character strength and a time at school when they have shown this strength. See the image below for the character strengths we will continue to explore this year.
Reminders
- Please make sure your child brings their iPad fully charged each day and has a labelled pair of headphones.
- Can all Year 1's bring a box of tissues and all Year 2's bring a pack of cleaning cloths. Thank you to those who have already done this.
- Take home books come back on a Monday to be changed for the week of reading.
Classroom Contacts
Should you wish to get in touch with your child’s teacher for any reason or you wish to make an appointment to speak with them, please contact them through Seesaw directly. If you prefer you can also use email. You can reach us on these addresses:
sprosser@shsandringham.catholic.edu.au
(for the next 5 weeks) lbiffin@shsandringham.catholic.edu.au
gfahey@shsandringham.catholic.edu.au
jbrown@shsandringham.catholic.edu.au
kharper@shsandringham.catholic.edu.au
kstroud@shsandringham.catholic.edu
The 1/2 team.