What has been happening in Room 7? 

Introduction

The Pre Primary and Year One children have had a wonderful start to the school year. They have settled into the class routines and enjoyed visiting the specialist classes.

In our classroom, the children are learning how to work together in groups. Each week, they participate in a team building activity. 

Team Building with balloons

 

 

 We have six home teams called...

 Team One: West Coast Eagles

 Team Two: Adelaide Crows

Team Three: Richmond Tigers

 Team Four: Essendon Bombers

Team Five: Western Bulldogs

Team Six: Fremantle Dockers

Parent Information Session

Thank you to all the parents for attending the Parent Information Evening. I hope you gained a better understanding of our routines, classroom management, my expectations and school policies. 

Term One Learning Outcomes 

In the classroom, the children are learning to:

Pre Primary 

English skills 

• Write their first and last name accurately. 
• Recognise upper and lower case sounds.
• Blend and segment sounds orally.
• Identify title, author, word, letter, space and page.

Mathematics skills

• Counts forward in sequence to 100.
• Count backwards from 20.
• Count collections in a variety of ways i.e. placing objects into a bag.
• Subitise collections to 6 both regular and irregular. 
• Compare collections according to quantity i.e 'more', 'less', 'same as' and 'not the same as'. 
• Read numerals, identifies numerals and matches to quantities 0-20.
• Copy and continue a pattern with objects, drawings, sounds and movement

Year One

English skills 

• Identify constant digraphs, which are two letters coming together to make one sound.
• Identify antonyms and synonyms. Use full stops, capital letters and question marks appropriately.
• Recognise words beginning with sh, ch, th and wh.
• Understand the meaning of words in sentences.

Mathematics skills 

• Accurately use the five counting principles.
• Read, write and order numbers to 100.
• Subitise collections up to 15.
• Orally count starting from 0 by 2’s, 5’s, 10’s to 100.
• Read the word numerals for 1 to 20.
• Read and understand basic facts to 20 (addition and subtraction).
• Represent and solve simple addition and subtraction problems to 30 using concrete materials, illustrations, counting on and counting back, partitioning and rearranging parts.

Great Resources

To support the children in counting, I have been incorporating some entertaining songs into our daily Mathematics Warm Ups. The songs focus on counting from 1 to 100, counting by 2s, counting by 5s and 

counting by 10s. I have saved the songs into the Resources Section of our blog. At home, I encourage you to provide opportunities for your child to orally count from 0 by 2s, 5s and 10s to 100.

Special Events

Student Councillors

Congratulations to Matilda and Jacob for being voted by their peers as the Student Councillors for Room 7.

Fortnightly Tests

Congratulations to Matilda, Chloe, Urshia, Bryan and Jaydon for achieving 100% on their first Year One Fortnightly Test. 

Merit Certificates 

Congratulations to Caitlin, Chloe and Jaxon for receiving their well- deserved Merit Certificates. Keep up the outstanding effort. 

 

Class Awards

Congratulations to the children for winning the Italian and Music Awards. You are all Superstars! 

Australian Day

On the 15th February, the children participated in a 'Australian Day' celebration. The children looked stunning in their costumes. Thank you for your time and effort in helping your child with their costumes, and for your donations. The children helped the school raise over $952 for the Queensland Flood Appeal.   

Thank you

Thank you very much for your wonderful support over the last few weeks. If you have any questions or would like to chat, please come and see me. 

Kind regards

Miss Ryan