1/2 K
Welcome back to 2022
Miss Ella, Miss Vanessa and myself would like to welcome all our families back to a new school year. We are very excited for a promising year ahead full of fun and learning.
House keeping
Just a reminder that the following school supplies are required at school as soon as possible as the student will require them in the upcoming weeks:
- Art smock
- Library bag
- Blue folder for take home readers
- Hat
- Headphones
Specialist Timetable
Students will beginning specialist classes next week, our lessons will be on the following days
- Monday: Italian & Performing Arts
- Wednesday: Sport (sport uniform)
- Thursday: Kinnect to Dance (runners)
- Friday: Library & Art
Our First Week of Learning
This week in Literacy we have explored a range of texts all based around the ideas of friendship, kindness and trying our best.
One of our favourite books this week was 'The world needs you to be, who you were made to be' by Joanna Gaines.
The students discussed key words from the story including what is means to be courageous, compassionate, resourceful, considerate and gracious. Student chose the word they thought best described them and wrote a sentence. Look at this amazing work your children completed.
This week in Mathematics we have been practicing our counting skills. First we began by counting collection of items by ones but found this was slow and when we needed to count a large group such as a handful of pasta it was sometimes not accurate.
Then we explored counting by twos, we found this was much quicker but many students needed practice counting beyond 20.
Finally we found that the most efficient way to count a large group of items was by tens. First we placed the items into groups of tens then we counted to check how many we had.
If you would like to practice counting skills with your children at home here are some great videos, or get out the pasta and ask them to count by ones, twos and tens.
Counting by twos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvTcpfSnOMQ
Counting by tens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0ZEaGsM5CE
Here are some pictures of your wonderful children counting.
