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:

Award Winners - Awards are handed out to students who show exemplary school values of Safety, Respect and Learning each week during weekly community assembly. If your child receives an award, but is absent on Friday, they will receive their award during the next weekly assembly.

Literacy-Phonics - Students learnt ee and ea sounds this week. 

Literacy- Writing - We are reading "Season's" by Aunty Munya Andrews. This non-fiction text shares knowledge about the seasons as determined by the Bardi people of the Kimberly region in Western Australia. Bardi people have 6 seasons as compared to standard 4 seasons and they are identified through changes in nature, animals, plants and the weather. Some Bardi seasons are short while others are longer. Students listen to the book and write a response to the text. 

At Home: Discuss what students have learnt from this information text. What changes do they notice over time as the weather changes in your local environment? Do you see different animals or plants and what do trees look like in different seasons.

Mathematics - This week, we continued to bundle popsticks into tens and ones. We then compared this with people around us talking about which number was larger or smaller. For example, "I know 78 is smaller than 87 as it has less tens"

At home:  Roll a dice, make a 2 digit number, dicuss how many tens and how many ones. Which number has more tens or ones. 

Integrated Studies - Students are learning how the four seasons calendar is organised by months and dates, while the Boonwurrung six seasons calendar is organised around changes in animals, plants and weather patterns, reflecting the deep knowledge of the Boonwurrung people our local area.

At Home: Go on a short nature walk and encourage your child to describe what they see, hear or feel. 

Religious Education - We observed Ash Wednesday in our community liturgy. Student read and sang with reverance and solemnity showing school values at all times.

Social & Emotional Learning - In SEL, our Year 1 students are learning to recognise different feelings and understand what situations might cause those feelings. Through class discussions, stories, and activities, they are building their emotional awareness and learning new words to describe how they feel.

At Home: Discuss what class self-regulation strategies students use when feeling different emotions.

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

Next week

Reading - Students will continue learning the long vowel sound /e/ with the spelling choice (- -y) as in happy and puppy. 

Writing - We continue to read more of "Seasons", by Aunty Munya Andrews and write responces to a text.

Mathematics-  We will continue to work with making 2 digit numbers. Focusing on using number lines to demonstrate our thinking. 

Religious Education - As part of our Lenten learning, we will be exploring the meaning of almsgiving through small, practical acts of kindness in our classrooms. We will be focusing on how everyday choices can help others and strengthen our sense of community.

Social Emotional Learning - We will continue to learn about different experiences and situations that can trigger different emotions.

Integrated Studies - Students will compare the four seasons calendar with the Boonwurrung six seasons calendar, exploring how each reflects changes in weather, plants and animals in our local area.

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
• 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