Year 1 Update – Wk 28
Sharing the Planet: This week clay, extra music and media lessons continued. In the classroom, children starting planning and making their diorama as well as begun to create paper.
Green week: This week the children participated in many of the ‘Green Week’ activities that happened throughout the school. The children enjoyed watching The Lorax, finding the animals for the hunt and dressing up in green colours today.
Well done to the children who participated in the ‘Trashion Fashion’ competition! We were impressed by so much creativity!
Zen Organic Farm: Thank you so much to the parents who came and helped on our trip to the Zen Organic Farm. For many of the children, this was the first time that they had been to a farm. The children experienced picking tomatoes, seeing where a variety of different vegetables grow, feeding a pig and some rabbits as well as making pizza and salad for their lunch.
Year 3 Action Day: Year 3 will be having an Action day on Friday 5th May to support the following charities; Indochina Starfish Foundation, Christina Noble Children’s Foundation, OneSky and Crossroads. The children have organised and will run a series of different activities and stalls to help raise awareness and funds for the below charities.
IndoChina Starfish foundation is an organisation commited to changing the lives of disadvantaged children in Cambodia.
OneSky aims to unlock the vast potential hidden in our world’s most vulnerable young children.
Crossroads Foundation is a Hong Kong based non-profit organisation. Their goal is to connect people in a broken world.
The Christina Noble Foundation is an international partnership of people dedicated to helping underprivileged children. Christina Noble strives to raise funds to support those in need in neighbouring countries, Vietnam and Mongolia.
The stalls will include a toy, book and juice stall at snack time. The lunchtime activities will include a Y1-3 football tournament, The movie Sing and popcorn, a danceathon in the drama room and Maths and book making activities in the Art Room. All items and entry fees will be between $5-$15.
Central Idea: Plants and animals depend of each other for survival in their environments
Next week the children will continue with making their diorama, they will draw, cut and stick living things into their box making connections as they go. Children will also continue with their artwork in the style of Eric Carle. You will get to see the children’s amazing work during sharing on the 12th May.
Song
As part of our preparations for Year 1 Sharing Day the Year 1 children have been learning a song in their music lessons. Please help your child to learn the words. Here is a link to the song,
Plant song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-l-gsWOKzk
Cooking at Home
Here are some photos from 1F. Gavin Lo and Avery Wu cooked at home on the weekend.
Here is Yuto from 1L cooking his favourite breakfast at home.
Numbers can be added and subtracted
Next week in maths we will continue to build upon the children’s understanding of addition and subtraction strategies. The children will have the opportunity to apply some of the strategies that they have learnt when solving a number task as well as play a variety of board and activity card games. Games that we play in school help the children to practise their maths skills as well as encourage turn taking, quick thinking and teamwork. Over the holidays, please spend some time with your child working through some of the activities on Mathletics. Your child could also spend time on the live part of Mathletics, this is a fantastic way to practise number facts.
Next week we will be continuing with the Set 5 of phonics:
ch, sh, th, wh
Camera Words: like do says what going give
Please continue to support our work in school by playing the suggested games on the back of the bookmark that was sent home a few weeks ago.
The next Golden Book assembly will be on Monday 8th May
Book recommendation: The book ‘The World Came to My Place Today’ has been reread and enjoyed by the children over the past couple of weeks. If you are looking for a new book for your home library we definitely recommend this book.
Grandpa shows George and his sister how plants from all over the world affect their daily lives, from the cereal they eat for breakfast to the rubber in their bicycle tyres and wood in their toys. The lively, simple text follows George’s day as he discovers the wonder of plants. Eye-catching illustrations are coupled with photographs of grasses, fruits and plants to make a highly original book, building awareness in children of the natural world.
