Yr1 Weekly Update - 23/9/16

Central idea: To function as part of a community people take on different roles and responsibilities.

The Year Ones have shown that they are excited to be back at school after a long weekend! The students have demonstrated that they are remembering classroom routines and have really settled into their recess and lunch-time play with the rest of the school.

The buzz on the children's lips this week was the LEAP van (Life Education Activity Programme) parked in KJS! The children got to go inside and learn how to make friends and how to live a healthy lifestyle by identifying important body parts that help us breathe, think and pump blood.

In maths the children are practising counting forwards, backwards and finding the the missing numbers in number lines up to 100. We are starting to use thinkcharts that help us to gain various strategies on what we know about specific numbers by writing the number before, after and using all kinds of math manipulatives to display our thinking!

Literacy

In literacy we have started to look at our writing hexagons to help us understand that we use writing to convey a message and are working on matching our pictures to our writing. We have also further explored rhyming pairs and finding other words that rhyme by creating our own rhyming books.

• Please notify the school office and the bus mother of any changes in your child's going home schedule. It is important that both the school office and bus mother is informed. Teachers are unable to always get to their email at the end of the day, so please call as soon as you know of alternative home arrangements to be made with your child.


• Please label every item of clothing and belongings with your child's name – including shoes and their school bags.


• Please remember to pack a school hat, a waterbottle and a snack every day, labeled with your child's name. Your child should also have a snack box and water bottle that he/she can open by his/herself.