Dear All,
Another exciting week! Thank you to everyone that came to the class information meeting. It was fantastic to meet or re-meet you all. The slides from the meeting will be posted to the website so you can review at your leisure. Also, for anyone who would like to get involved in our PTA community, we are looking for some PTA representatives for our class. Please get in touch if you’d like to be involved 🙂
On with the learning!
Our Learning
In Maths, the students are really getting used to the flow and routines. They’ve made excellent progress on their number formation and place value knowledge. On Friday we used the computers to practice our maths on Sumdog. We’ve covered:
Aut.1.5 – Understand 11 – 15
Aut.1.6 – Understand 16 – 20
Aut.1.7 – 1 more
Aut.1.8 – 1 less
Next week we will finish the first part of place value (numbers to 20) and begin addition and subtraction (up to 20).
In Literacy, we have continued to read our book and considered our favourite animals. The students wrote mini-fact files about their animals and we all guessed what animal they had written about. It was a lot of fun! We have also become researchers and learned all we can about penguins, so we know what to do if one turns up at our door!
This week the class has started our IPC unit – Superhumans! We had sensory stations set up around the classroom and the students explored their 5 senses. We then used those senses to explore an object and a place. As the students enjoyed the year 7/8/9 cake so much on Monday, we had no choice but to make another on Friday! Similarly, everyone went down to the garden to use our 5 senses there. Seeing all the bugs was a little scary for them!
Lastly, Phonics has begun this week. Everyone has worked so hard in their groups, so please let them wow you with some reading at home. Let me know how they’ve done in their reading records 🙂
Reminders!
Class Trip
Most have signed up but for those that haven’t please see below about our upcoming class trip:
My class and Miss Staines’ class have a trip coming up! We will visit Hyundai Art Center Anthony Browne Exhibition on Wednesday 9th September (W3). We have been reading his stories throughout the week and the students are excited to see even more of his work. This will take place during the school day and students will be back for usual pickup. There is no fee required.
If you have any further questions, please feel free to reach out to the Admin Office.
Please fill in the permission slip below by Sunday 6th September if you would like your child to attend:
Homework & Library Books
Please return library books on Thursday. These can go in their backpacks or their yellow folder. Homework can be returned anytime, but please bring their yellow folders back on Friday for next week’s RWI books and homework 🙂
Thank you!
It has been a fantastic week of learning and the students should be so proud of their efforts. Have a great weekend!
All the best,
Mr Browning
