Prep/ One Guy and Thomas

I was terrific to meet up with so many parents over the past two weeks, about their child's progress in Parent Teacher Chats. Thank you to those parents who met with us, to celebrate all of the students' achievements.

Students loved learning about how bees pollinate our food and that without bees we would not have the food we eat today.

In Literacy we have learnt about the long sound vowels can make in words. We learnt about long i in words such as hi, high, kite, pie and my. We learnt about homophones, adding ing to words and the doubling rule for words such as hopping. We also learnt about oa words such as coast and the prefix un as in unhappy. We are continuing to learn about our heart words every day too.

In Numeracy we have continued our learning around partitioning, with some students partitioning numbers to 120! We have learnt how to skip count by 2s, 5s and 10s in readiness for our next unit of work on making equal groups ( multiplication) and sharing equally ( division).

In Humanities we have continued learning about the histoy of toys. We loved learning about the history of Lego in readiness for our excusion next week.

In Auslan we learnt how to sign Our National Anthem.

In Digital Technologies we learnt about communicating with digital systems. We learnt that people communicate with different people and for different reasons, such as video calls to family or friends on the other side of the world.

Prep One Guy Student achievers

Congratulations to the following students who were voted in by their classmates for showing our school values of resilience, respect and responsibility. We are so proud of you.

Week 1 : Renowned River

Week 2: Lovely Lilly

Week 3: Charming Chandler

Well done to Levi and Daxton who are leading our Reading nights competition, having read over 125 nights so far this year. Amazing effort!

Prep One Thomas Student chievers:

week 1:Aiden

Week 2: Jaxon

Week 3: Carlee

Week 4: Hudson N

How to help your child in their literacy journey:

Regularly talking and interacting with your child extends their language and listening skills and helps grow their confidence with language. Visiting people and places can also provide a world of new vocabulary. Discussion during outings can enrich your child’s understanding of the world. Outings might include going to the local farmers market, park, zoo, shopping centre, museums, libraries and art galleries.

Encourage your child to make up stories, such as telling a story about their favourite toy, another family member, a pet, a favourite fictional character from a book or television program, a famous person, different work professions, such as astronauts, fire fighters, nurses and teachers, an imaginary world with imaginary characters or an imaginary animal that can speak.

Legoland Excursion - Thursday 13th August

📢📢 A REMINDER to all Parents and Carers

On Thursday 13th August.....

Students will need:

Full school uniform (socks must be worn for soft play area)
A named plastic bag with a disposable lunch, snack and water bottle.
PLEASE do not bring their School Bag.

Students must be at school by 9 am sharp for roll call as the bus can not wait.

Mrs Murphy & Mrs Monson - Grade 1/2

Honey Bees Pollinator Incursion 🐝🐝🐝

Prep - 2 were super lucky to be part of the Pollination Virtual Excursion. Students learnt all about Pollination and did an experiement, into how bees collect Pollen.

Literacy 📚📚

1/2 students have been exploring a range of poetic forms, including rhyming poems and haiku. They listened to and discussed poems, identifying rhythm, rhyme, imagery and the main idea, while exploring how poets use descriptive language and the five senses to create vivid pictures in the reader's mind. Students wrote and edited their own rhyming and haiku poems, applying their understanding of rhyme patterns, syllables, descriptive vocabulary, common and proper nouns, capital letters and punctuation.

Maths ➕➖🟰

Everything Fractions!! Students in 1/2 have been learning all about fractions over the last 2 weeks. We have learnt about: Whole, Halves, Quarters and Eighths. Students have learnt what the numerator is and what the denominator means. Students understand that fractions need to be equal parts to be able to make a fraction.

Students of the Week 🤩🤩

Term 3

Mrs Murphy's Class

Week 1: Taz

Week 2: Jackson S

Week 3: Ivy

Week 4: Bodhi

Mrs Monson's Class

Week 1: Nellie

Week 2: Lexi

Week 3: Heath

Week 4: Esme

Legoland Excursion - Thursday 13th August

📢📢 A REMINDER to all Parents and Carers

On Thursday 13th August.....

Students will need:

Full school uniform (socks must be worn for soft play area)
A named plastic bag with a disposable lunch, snack and water bottle.
PLEASE do not bring their School Bag.

Students must be at school by 9 am sharp for roll call as the bus can not wait.

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