19 May 2017

Year 1 Update – Wk 30

 

 
Tuesday 23rd May – Year 1 Bake Sale- please send your cakes in on Tuesday morning. The children will need $5 or $10 to buy a cake or biscuit. Please do not send in more than $10.
Monday 29th May – BHS CPD – School closed
Tuesday 30th May – Public Holiday
Friday 2nd June – 1F class assembly – 1F Parents please arrive by 9am
Friday 9th June – 1L Assembly (Changed from 26th May) – 1L Parents please arrive by 9am

This week the children have been spending time on completing the year long unit, How the World Works. The children have rounded up all their learning from this unit and completed a summative assessment to conclude it. Please note that 1F and 1L have also been preparing for their upcoming assemblies.

In preparation for our final unit starting next week, the children enjoyed a fantastic puppet show performance this week. We saw examples of shadow puppets, string puppets and hand puppets.

Outdoor Classroom Day Website

 BHS took part in Outdoor Classroom Day where classes all around the world take the opportunity to spend more time outdoor than they usually would. The children enjoyed reading and doing their word level work outdoors.
Sleep
Some of the Year One children have been complaining of feeling tired at school. Please make sure that each day before your child comes to school they have had 10-12 hours of continuous unbroken sleep. The children going to bed and then being woken up a few hours later, or mid-day napping could be the cause of tiredness during the day.
Bake Sale
The Year One Bake Sale is next Tuesday. Please take the time to bake some cookies or cakes with your child this weekend. You do not need to donate too many, but every little will help.

How We Express Ourselves
People tell stories in different ways to communicate
We are already coming to our final unit of this school year. This is a fabulous unit which is always very popular. The children will be learning about different ways that stories can be told, including using puppets, dance, film, music, dress-up and role-play, animation and even yoga, among many ways. The children are exposed to many stories, new and more familiar and learn to tell their own stories too. We will be setting a stage up in the shared area from next week.
 
Cooking at Home

We are so pleased that the Year 1 children are continuing to enjoy baking and preparing their meals at home. Here are the photos to show Marcus making naan breads and Shanica making cookies. Well done everyone!

maths

Estimate, compare, describe and measure the length, mass and capacity of objects using nonstandard units

For the next three weeks Year One will be focusing on measurement. Each class will take a different focus each week, including, mass, capacity and temperature.

The children will be working to estimate how much something could weigh/ fill/ feel and learn to make comparisons. There is a lot of vocabulary related to measuring and the children will be learning to use a wide range of words in the correct context.

Mathletics

Please refer to the measurement section of mathletics to reinforce what we are learning at school, at home. Children need to complete their mathletics learning with an adult. Together please focus on each question by drawing, acting or playing with manipulatives. Ask your child to explain their thinking. If your child can explain what they did it means that they understand it. At school we expect a thorough explanation rather than “I thought of it” or “I just know”.

Narrative Writing
With the start of our new unit the children will start to move onto narrative writing. This week they will be telling stories verbally with books with no words. The children will also be writing their own stories in small books to show what they know already about story writing.
Big Universe  
Please help your child to log on to Big Universe at home and enjoy reading books together.
Phonics
Next week we will be introducing Unit 6 phonemes and camera words. The phonic bookmark will be sent home early next week. Please support your child at home by playing the suggested games and activities on the phonics bookmark.

Phonemes: qu, ng, x, ck

Camera Words:  away, see, look, very, once, we

 

Congratulations to this week’s Golden Book recipients.

1F – Charlotte Ma

1L – Khristie Turnwald

1W – Daphne Luk

ICT- Mona Chen

Experience Suggestion