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 hat for school.
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. Please ensure students eat breakfast before they arrive at school. Lunchboxes should include fruit or vegetables and lunch to fuel students for learning throughout the day.

This week:

Literacy-Phonics - This week we revised our Stage 6 sounds from the Little Learners Love Literacy sequence. Students practiced these previously taught sounds through our whole class Daily Review and in small reading groups. 

Literacy- Writing - This week we read and wrote responses to  "A Year on Our Farm" by Penny Matthews and Andrew Mclean.  This book pairs well with our integrated topic geography as it talks about different places. It also shows the  environmental changes of seasons as well as the social, emotional and physical growth of a family that live a very different life on a farm.

At Home: Ask your children about their learning. Discuss how your homelife is different compared to life on the farm. 

Mathematics - This week, we reviewed and learned about collections, how to organise them to make them easy to count. 

Integrated Studies - This week, students learned about geography by exploring different places. They learned about natural and built places and enjoyed comparing life on a farm to their own homes, as well as discovering how farms change across the season.

Religious Education - This week, we focused the importance of prayer in Mark 1:35 and our communities connection with Jerusalem.

Social & Emotional Learning - In social and emotional learning, students learned about our school-wide expectations of Safety, Respect, and Learning, and we talked about what these look like in our classroom and around the school. We also discussed our routines and the consequence cycle.

AUSLAN - This week we worked on the signs as below.

Next week

Reading - We will be learning the long vowel sound ai/ay. 

Writing - We will reading "All through the Year" by Jane Godwin.

Mathematics- We will continue to count collections but will use bundling sticks instead to build our understanding of place value. Looking at how many tens and ones in a number. 

Religious Education - We are exploring the importance of Ash Wednesday within the liturgical calendar.

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
• Tuesday 17 February - Shrove Tuesday
• Wednesday 18 February - Ash Wednesday   Start of Lent
• Thursday 19 February - Open Afternoon & Family Catch‑Up   4:30pm – 6:30pm
• 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