Year One - Spotlight on Learning

Dear Families,

Week 2 has been successful with students settling into routines, like roll order lines and following instructions. Students have made great efforts in bringing hats to school which has been wonderful especially due to the heat wave we have been experiencing.

This week we learnt about

Religious Education focus: Students are finding out how they can show kindness to others. We read the Parable of the Good Shepherd which discussed how everyone is important and needs care.

English focus: Students learnt to enhance their writing by focusing on the ‘who’ and ‘what’ sentence writing prompts. Revision of sounds previously taught, specifically ‘sh’. Students added more information to boring sentences making them more complex.

Mathematics focus: Students counted various collections and tried to find find the most efficient strategy to count large groups.

SEL: Students examined different emotions by watching to see if they can recognise happiness, anger, sadness and surprise in others.

Inquiry: Students are learning about the past and present. They are examining pictures from long ago, in recent history and today.

AUSLAN Focus: Students are revisiting simple signs and using them daily at school.

Next week we are learning about...

Religious Education Focus: More about the history of the Bible.

English Focus: Learning the sound "ch" and reading the book called Respect by Aunty Fay Muir and Sue Lawson

Mathematics Focus: We are counting bigger collections and comparing which numbers are bigger or smaller.

Inquiry: We are learning about family and how they can differ.

Auslan Focus: We are learning about greetings.

Week 3
Monday	1B - Physical Education - Students will need to wear PE uniform 1D-Visual Arts, please send in an Art Smock
Tuesday	1C & 1D - Physical Education - Students will need to wear PE uniform
Wednesday	1A - Visual Arts, please send in an Art Smock 1B, 1C & 1D STSS
Thursday	1A - Physical Education - Students will need to wear PE uniform 1B- Visual Arts, please send in an Art Smock

Reminders

All students are required to wear a wide brim hat for recess and lunch time
Students need an art smock for Visual Art
Extra fruit or vegetables for fruit break

Important Dates

Thursday 20th Feb - Open Afternoon and Family Catch-up - 4:45 - 6:45 pm
Wednesday 5th March - Ash Wednesday, beginning of Lent
Friday 7th March - Pupil Free Day - Professional Development day for staff
Monday 10th March -School Closure - Labour Day Public Holiday

Contact Us @ Jerusalem

jerusalem@cranbourneeast.catholic.edu.auOR

Staff Members	Email Address
1A - Nimanthi Perera	nperera@cranbourneeast.catholic.edu.au
1B - Amanda Karam	akaram@cranbourneeast.catholic.edu.au
1B - Crystal Krytenberg	ckrytenberg@cranbourneeast.catholic.edu.au
1C - Linzi Honan	lhonan@cranbourneeast.catholic.edu.au
1C - Ben Dixon	bdixon@cranbourneeast.catholic.edu.au
1D -Alona Naidoo	anaidoo@cranbourneeast.catholic.edu.au