What a fantastic start to the term we have had. We are loving seeing so many smiling faces and getting to enjoy the beautiful weather. There have been a few times where we have taken learning outside and the students enjoy the change of environment. Just this week, we went outside to do some reading with a peer in the class and enjoy our oval space.

Our reading, writing and oral language has come a long way since the beginning of year. Learning how to use our bossy ‘e’ has been fun as we need to remember to apply the long vowel sound to the word and add the e on the end when writing. We have been enjoying our informative text unit and learning about how the texts are different to fiction/imaginative text.

In our Math lessons we started the term off with grouping and knowing how to share objects evenly amongst people. This past week we are back into addition and learning new strategies to assist us when counting bigger numbers. We will use some of these strategies when we do subtraction next.

Religion lessons have all been about seeing God’s presence and appreaciating the little things in life. We have learnt about God’s presence in the sacrament of batptism and also The Last Supper. Students have started to recognise God in the everyday things we do.

In History lessons we are learning about our families and what it means to be a family. As we know they come in all sorts of forms but having these conversations are great for the students as they see families that are similar and different to theirs.

Next week we start our PE lessons in skipping. If you haven’t registered your child yet for Jump Rope For Heart, please do so. We can’t wait to learn to skip and do some tricks with our skipping ropes.

Important Dates/Days:

Homework & Library- Wednesday

PE uniform- Wednesday

Father’s Day Liturgy and Smoko- Thursday, 29^th August

Pupil Free Day- Friday 30^th August

Year 1 Assembly Prayer- Friday 6^th September