Year One 

Spotlight on Learning

Dear Families,

It’s been another great week of learning and growing together in Year One. Our students are back into their routines and are continuing to build on the wonderful progress they’ve made this year. Thank you for your continued support and partnership as we work hand in hand towards finishing Term 4 in high spirits with bigger and brighter hopes for the future. 

Hi Parents and Carers,

Our Jerusalem Community will be hosting a Potted Herb Sale to support the St. Vincent de Paul Society. This event is a wonderful opportunity for students to contribute to our community outreach and learn about stewardship. Please see the attached poster for more information.

Important Reminders

1. Monday 3rd Nov — SCHOOL CLOSURE
2. Tuesday, 4 Nov - Melbourne Cup Day Holiday - No school
3. Term 4 is a SunSmart term and 'No hat, no play', please ensure your child has their hat for school.
4. All students are expected to wear full St Thomas’ school uniform — either summer, winter or PE is fine, but it must be the official school uniform. 

This week:

Literacy-Reading - We read the book 'What's cooking at 10 garden street' to introduce our upcoming community garden activity at Myuna Farm. 

Literacy-Phonics -During Phonics, we looked at the (yoo) ue/u-e sound. 

Mathematics-We continued implementing our Number Fluency practise each day and focused on Measurement - time - ordering, analog to the hour.

Integrated-Health- This week, students collaborated in groups to inquire and discuss any questions they had about our excursion on Friday.

Religious Education - This week, we focused on Stewardship of Creation through the story of Noah’s Ark. Students learned about caring for God’s creation, explored composting, and decorated their own plant pots. Each student planted a seedling to take home, helping raise funds to support people in need.

Social & Emotional Learning - We didn’t have an SEL lesson this week because of our exciting excursion, which provided wonderful opportunities for teamwork and social learning in a different setting! 

Auslan - This week we learnt about how to sign the object first and then describe its features.

Next week

Literacy-Reading - We will learn about the book 'Stuck' by Oliver Jeffers.

Literacy-Phonics - We will have a revision short week. 

Mathematics - We will continue implementing our Number Fluency practise each day and focus on Shapes. 

Integrated - We will introduce Community Projects. 

Religious Education -  Next week, we will not have RE due to school closure.

Social Emotional Learning - We will complete the other three roles that we are yet covered from the 5 Body Safety Rules. We will also look at two different types of secrets: Safe and Unsafe secrets. We will learn that unsafe secrets should not be kept.

Auslan - In Auslan we will have our End-Cycle Assessment.

Ways to engage with the newsletter:

• Read or watch 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 Four:

• Month of the Rosary- October
• Monday 3rd Nov — SCHOOL CLOSURE
• Tuesday, 4 Nov - Melbourne Cup Day Holiday - No school
• Week 7- All week — Kid’s Roar – Protective Behaviours Sessions (F–Year 5)
• Wednesday, 26 Nov - Mass from 9:30am to 10:30am
• Monday, 1 Dec - F-2 Athletics Day @ Casey Fields
• Carols Tuesday 9th Dec 4pm - 7pm
• Friday, 12 Dec - Last Day of Formal Classes

• Monday, 15 Dec - Clean Up Day - No Formal Classes

   

Contact Us @ Jerusalem

jerusalem@cranbourneeast.catholic.edu.auOR

The Jerusalem team