D1 Class News Week 1 Term 3

100 DAYS OF SCHOOL

This coming Thursday will be the 100^th day of school for the year and we will do some fun activities to celebrate.  I am hoping some parents will spare us some time in the first hour of the morning from around 9:00 to supervise a small group of children while they do an activity. Please let me know if you can help out.

COLLECTION OF 100 THINGS

During this week I would like everyone to bring a collection of 100 things in a small (sandwich size) plastic bag for display in the room. Things brought in previous years have included – toothpicks, grains of rice, bottle tops, paper clips etc. As long as the bags are named, all items will be returned after a few weeks.

SCI TECH

Please send the money in for the Sci Tech incursion  if you haven’t already done so. If the paper work has been misplaced, please ask for another one.

WELCOME BACK MRS GLEW

The teacher replacing Mrs Glew has another position for the next seven weeks so we will have Deb back for the second, fourth and sixth Wednesdays this term.

OLYMPICS

With the Olympics starting at the end of the week, we will make this our focus for the next few weeks. We will start with a little history of the games and then investigate some of the sports involved and then later some of the countries participating.

One of the major projects the children will do in class as long as we have access to computers is to research some of the Olympic sports. The children will find information about the rules, the number of players, a little of its history and previous stars in the field. I am hoping they will then track how the Australians are doing in the games in their sport so they can keep the class updated if possible. By the end of the games I anticipate the children will be aware of what medals the Australian team has won and how they are doing overall. Any help from home to find information would be really appreciated. It would be of great benefit if the children could watch at least some of the opening ceremony at home but I will try to tape it for those who do not get this opportunity.

I will post the framework for the sports investigations on the homework page of the blog.

READING BOOKS

We still have several reading books yet to be returned and your help in finding them would be truly appreciated. I have put out new books but the children MUST date the name of the book they take home and highlight it when it is returned. If they had done this properly last term it would have been much easier to track where these missing books were. If you have a few minutes to spare in the morning I would love someone to check the children as they take a new book.

CHANGES THIS TERM

The school motto is Pride, Excellence and Respect and I aim to develop each of these as much as I possibly can. This term I plan to have samples of work or photos as evidence of each of these on display in the room as they happen in the class. I am also recording when the children demonstrate personal organisation and respect and will acknowledge and celebrate that publically on a regular basis.

I am changing the way we will do spelling this term in the hope that the children will master the phonics they require for successful writing. In the class the spelling will be based solely on phonics but I am sending home a list of sight words for the children to practise for homework. Instructions will be sent home with the list. The children will not take home a separate list each week so please read the note I am sending home.  For access to all the lists please look at the link below.  This will encourage the children striving for excellence to push themselves as far as they can.