Grade 1/2 News

Reminders: 

• Sunscreen: If your child bring's their own sunscreen to school, please send this along with them or check with them if it needs replenishing. 
• Footy Colours Day: Please remember tomorrow is Footy Colours Day. Your child is welcome to wear their favourite team colours and will join in with a football skills clinic during the day. This day is held in support of the Fight Cancer Foundation and students are asked to bring a gold coin along on the day.
• Be Awesome Day: As you would have seen in a recent Compass post our annual 'Be Awesome Day' is fast approaching. All classes across the school will be asking for donations of items, up until Be Awesome Day (Friday 3rd November). Each 1/2 class has given the students an opportunity to have a say in the stall their class will be running. The following stalls have been chosen:
  • 1/2 Murphy: Zooper Doopers (seeking donations of non-frozen 'No Sugar' Zooper Doopers)
  • 1/2 Crawford: Lob A Choc (various chocolate blocks and bars, GF/DF/V chocolate)
  • 1/2 Todeschini/Arthur: Plants (no donations required - thank you)
  • 1/2 Patrao-Hurley: Lucky Dip (small toys, fidgets, treats, stationery, books, jewellery, stamps and stickers)
  • 1/2 Rodda/Brewer: Lolly Bags (seeking donations of lollies, chocolates suitable for lolly bags. Small bags to create lolly bags with).

What we have been up to...

Melbourne Zoo

I really liked that the seal was playing with the class. The seal was pretending to bite our fingers. I also liked watching the active Meerkats and putting our heads in the looking bubbles. – Emma 1/2 Todeschini

I like how the monkeys were making a funny sound. It sounded kind of like a siren. They were swinging around the trees going a little crazy. - Louie 1/2 Todeschini

The zoo is amazing, there were a lot of funny animals. - Lewis 1/2 Murphy

When we all got to the zoo the first thing we saw were the dingoes, but my favourite animal was the platypus. - Charlotte 1/2 Murphy

The seals put on a show for us, which was funny. - Ava 1/2 Murphy

In the butterfly room all the butterflies were twirling and shimmering and we were super still. - Darby 1/2 Murphy

Last week we were lucky enough to go to the Melbourne Zoo! My favourite animal was the dingo. When we got to the Dingo Enclosure, I wanted a photo with the dingo so I got Mr Crawford to take one. – Flynn 1/2 Crawford

When we went to the Melbourne Zoo last week I had a great time and my favourite animal was the Otters. My favourite part of the Zoo to explore was the Trail of the Elephants. I loved this part because I love elephants and I hadn’t seen them for a while. – Ivy 1/2 Crawford

I really liked the trip to the Melbourne Zoo and I especially liked the Elephant Trail and the Lion Gorge. My favourite animals were the Elephants, Lions and Dingoes. I loved the Lion Gorge because I like big cats and the Elephants Trail was awesome because they have really cool horns! – Victoria 1/2 Crawford

Learning in Term 4 - Week 1 and 2

Mathematics: In week 1, during Mathematics lessons students will be exploring Place Value including it's use during addition and subtraction. In week 2, students will focus on skip counting patterns and their connection to multiplication.

English: During Reading sessions we will be focusing on the book 'The Word Collector'. Students will practise predicting, learning new vocabulary, comparing and contrasting and exploring sentence level meaning.

Students will be refining their ability to write engaging recounts and during this process there will be a large focus on using correct boundary punctuation.

Topic: We will begin to immerse students in our topic 'Through the Generations', beginning our focus on what is has changed over the course of our families lives.