Teaching and Learning
From Mr Sait P-1
Milo’s Birthday Surprise!
In the P/1 room we are busy working our way through the Milo’s Birthday Surprise story book, learning all about different graphemes (letters) and phonemes (a single sound). We are about half way through our journey and are enjoying learning about the different characters and their sound and then following this up with lots of hands on learning focusing on sounds and early reading concepts each week. Most of the time these activities allow us to practice our hand eye coordination as well through cutting out, tracing etc. along with our early year’s writing skills including listening for the sounds in words and matching these to their letter counterparts. We are looking forward to celebrating Milo’s Birthday next term!
“Milo the monkey calls his friends to invite them to his birthday party, but everybody is busy preparing a surprise for him! Children can search the entertaining illustrations for clues about what birthday surprises are in store for Milo. Each of Milo’s fun friends introduce a new sound and letter.”
From Mr Collins 2-6
New Laptops
The new laptops are here. The senior students are lucky enough to now be using our new Lenovo touch screen netbooks. The possibilities really are endless with this form of technology and the senior kids didn't waste any time working out their capabilities.
Discovery Incursion
On Friday, the Discovery Centre visited our Senior class for an incursion on our online identity. This was an extremely informative session teaching the kids about being safe online and how things posted today can still be there a long time into the future.
Maths - Time
We are in full swing of learning to tell the time in the 2-6 room and have gone right back to basics. Our progression is: o'clock, half past, quarter to and past, 5-minute times, times to the minute, 12 and 24-hour time, timetable reading, duration, and elapsed time. Last Thursday we used Cones to trace circles and design our own clocks with varied versions of numbers on them as a warm-up.
MARC News from Mrs Gentry
