Mrs Guy - Prep / 1 and Miss Thomas - Prep/1

Welcome back to school everyone. We hope you had a wonderful time on the holidays with your beautiful children.

During our first week in Literacy we revised all letters of the alphabet and their most common sounds. We revised blending these sounds and making words to read and write. We continued working on making sentences verbally to ensure they make sense and writing these sentences with uppercase letters to begin, spaces between words and ending punctuation. We revised the heart words that have been sent home. We learnt about Earth Day and how to help our planet by turning off lights and powerpoints that are not needed, turning off taps while brushing our teeth, having quick showers to conserve water and reducing , reusing and recycling plus planting trees. We learnt about ANZAC Day; a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand commemorating the 1915 Gallipoli landing. We learnt that it honors the "ANZAC spirit"—courage, mateship, and sacrifice—of all armed forces personnel who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations.

During the second week of Term Two we moved on to learning about double letters. We learnt to read and write words such as dull, fuss, puff, buzz, butter and ladder. We have been learning new heart words and these will be sent home after we learn them at school for you to help your child remember these words which can not be worked out by giving most common sounds to match letters. We also learnt about Environmental print. We walked around our school and found signs, number plates, hopscotch and posters, teaching students we read a lot more than books.

We loved the colour fun run very much. Thank you to Parents and Friends for organising such a terrific fund raiser. We hope to raise enough money for new technology to use in classrooms.

Well done to everyone for showing enormous amounts or resilience, working your way through the different physical education stations and competing with such good sportsmanship in our Athletics Sports Day.

A reminder that our annual Mother's/ Special Person's Day morning tea will be help in the junior rooms from 9.00am-10.30am on Monday 4th May. Please ensure your child has a special person to spoil while we celebrate Mothers/ Special Person's Day with some pampering and morning tea.

We wish all our beautiful Mums a wonderful Mothers Day next Sunday. We hope you are all spoilt!

CONGRATULATIONS to Miss Thomas who graduated from University as a teacher. Prep/ One Thomas are very luck to have such a wonderful teacher guide them this year. Bunyip Primary School are super duper proud of you Grace. We love having you as part of our team.

Please remember to encourage your child to read their take home reader/s every night. Please sign their diary to count as nights read for our class competition of most nights read. Please encourage your child to learn to read their heart words which are sent home after we have learnt them at school. If your child finds reading these words easy, they can work on spelling these words.

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HELP NEEDED

If you are free from 3.00pm-3.25pm on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, we need parent helpers to help with Reading Circles. This involves listening to individual students read their take home reader and writing in their new text/s. If you have a current Working With children's check and would like to help please come into Prep/ One Guy and Thomas.

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In Numeracy, during the first week we revised all of our Number curriculum including matching words to numerals, counting forwards and backwards, saying which numbers are larger or smaller, making numbers with base ten manipulatives and representing numbers in different ways by breaking for example 20 into 10 and 10, 18 and 2, 16 and 4.

During our second week we began learning about addition using strategies such as adding using fingers, counters, number lines, ten frames, friends of 10, holding the larger number in our head and counting on plus drawing items then counting how many all together and understanding that 3+5 =8 and 5+3=8.

Prep/ One Guy Term 2 Student achievers

In Term 2, students nominate who they think has shown our school values of respect- treating others the way they would like to be treated, responsibility- doing the right thing and being trustworthy or resilience- the power to bounce back in the previous week. They nominate five students and then with closed eyed, they vote for who they think is deserving of this position. That student if then the Student Of The Week and gets to do all the special jobs around the school, has their own special chair and desk for the week and gets to take Lucky, our class teddy home for one week. The class then writes about this student and we complie their pages into a book for the Student Of The Week to keep forever.

Week 1: Dazzling Daxton

Week 2: Charismatic Cole

A huge congratulations to our student achievers; we are so proud of you for showing our school values of respect, responsibility and resilience. Certificates will be held at school and presented at assembly each fortnight.

This week's Literacy tip for parents:

Let your child see you reading and writing in everyday life – reading for pleasure, sharing a story with your child, using a recipe, making a shopping list, writing a birthday card or reading street signs. This teaches them that reading and writing are useful skills in today’s world.

Student Achievers in Prep/ One Thomas

Week 1: Marlee

Week 2: Audrey

We are very proud of your efforts, showing our school values of respect, responsibility and resilience. Certificates will be held at school and presented at assembly each fortnight. Keep up the great work!

Mrs Murphy - Grade 1/2 & Mrs Monson - Grade 1/2

We have had so much fun since we have returned for Term 2; we have already enjoyed the colour fun run and raised money for needed resources. We have enjoyed school athletics, and an Awesome win to Anderson House by 1 point.💙 Well Done to all houses, it was great to see such school spirit. ❤️💛💚💙

Colour Run and Athletics

Literacy

We have been learning all about Persuasive Writing. The students enjoyed the book Dear Broccoli, where Broccoli was trying to persuade Frank to eat him. Broccoli gave lots of evidence and arguments throughout the book to persuade Frank.

Maths

In Maths, we have been learning about Addition and Subtraction and what our symbols mean. ➕ ➖ 🟰. Students are starting to learn new strategies for adding and subtracting numbers.

Student Teacher 🧮🧮

We have Miss Hayley in 1/2 M for 5 weeks. Hayley is from Deaking University and is doing her 2nd placement with the 1/2's.

Mother's Day Celebrations 💐💐

On Monday, 4th May, we will be celebrating in the Prep-2 classes from 9 am to 10 - 10:30 am. If you cannot attend, they can bring another special person with them.

On Tuesday, 5th May, we have Mother's Day Breakfast from 7:30 am in the hall. 🥐🥐. Please remember you need to purchase tickets from Compass, and they are FREE.

On Wednesday, 6th May, we have our Mother's Day stall on. Please send your child with $5 - $10 and a bag they can put their gift into.

Students of the Week 🤩🤩

Term 2

Mrs Murphy's Class

Week 1: Taz

Week 2: Tori

Mrs Monson's Class

Week 1: Savannah and Xavie

Week 2: Ryker and Ellie

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