Term 2, Week 1, 2017

Hi everyone and welcome back to school.  I hope you all had a great holiday with your children and took advantage of some of the great weather we have had.  
Here we go for week 1....

*Portfolio's: all portfolio's went home on the last day but because we finished early, I didn't get the parent comment forms in.  I will send them home tomorrow and hope you will take a few minutes to give your child some feedback and feed forward and praise them on all their hard work.

*Liturgies: There is an ANAZAC Liturgy tomorrow at 10am in the hall and one on Tuesday at the same time for the Resurection.  All families are welcome to join us.

*Assembly: Room 13 is responsible for Assembly this week.  If you can come along it would be great for your kids to see you there.  Assembly begins at 2:05pm on Friday.

*Trip: We will be going on our trip to Rainbow Springs in Week 3.  If you would like to come along, we will need parent transport and supporters while at the park.  A note will go home this week for you to fill in if you can help.  If you didn't get a chance to send the money in for the Art Auction, please do so this week.  Many thanks for your support with the auction, it was a great learning experience for the children and they really feel like they have worked to earn the money for their trip.

*Reading: I would love to see all Reading Logs returned this week please.  We will continue with Guided Reading, Buddy Reading, Independent and shared reading this term.  Every child will bring at least 2 books home a week.  It is important for their understanding of the story and for fluency that they reread their stories often.  Please encourage them to read every day.

*Writing: this term will continue writing every day, focusing on recount, explanation and imaginative writing.  We will also be focusing on spelling patterns and blended sounds such as ai, ou, ar etc.

*Mathematics: This term we will be spending a good amount of time working on building maths knowledge and how we can use it to problem solve.  Week 1 will be around Halves and doubles.

*R.E: We will be focusing on the Resurection and Personal Prayer for the first part of this term.  We will then look at God and Jesus.   The Prayer book will come home with every child and inside will be a reflective journal where each family can write a prayer.  It is a lovely resource to have in the classroom and the children are very proud of their families prayers.  It does not have to be long and can be thank you , I am sorry or an asking prayer. Thank you for your support with this.

*Concept: Our concept this term is Sustainabiity: conserve, preserve, maintain.  We will  be setting up a recycling station in our classroom and looking at ways we can help our countries clean, green image.  If you have any clean recycling: buttons, small cardboard boxes, tubing, plastic containers, etc, please send them to school over the next two weeks so that we can design our recyclable art pieces.  Ooh nuts and bolts would be great too.

*We have another busy term ahead of us, thank you for your ongoing support which makes my job so much easier.  
Have a great week
Annie