Term 1, Week 9 24/3/16 Junior School

Junior School Newsletter: Term 1, Week 9

CONNECT WITH YEAR 1/2

As the term draws to a close, we would like to thank all families for their support throughout the term and wish everyone a very safe and happy holiday period. We are looking forward to Term 2 and have many exciting things planned!

Learning and Teaching

In year 1/2 We Are Learning To (WALT)...

READING: 

Week 9: ask questions- before, during, and after our reading

Term 2, Week 1: ask questions about a text and identify the who, what, where and when of the story

SPELLING: 

Grade 1 -  

Week 9: Spelling revision

Term 2, Week 1: 'air' as in hair

Grade 2 -  

Week 9: Spelling revision

Term 2, Week 1: 'ck' as in duck  

WRITING:

Week 9: structure rhyming patterns in our writing

Term 2, Week 1: sequence events in the order they occur   

MATHS: 

Grade 1 

Week 9 - model and solve subtraction problems beyond 20

Term 2, Week 1: count collections to 100 by partitioning numbers using place value

Grade 2 

Week 9 - model and solve subtraction problems using trading to explore the relationship between addition and subtraction

Term 2, Week 1: count collections to 1000 by partitioning numbers using place value

UNIT OF STUDY: 

Term 1: We are learning to understand the roles and responsibilities of members within the community. Term 2: explore a variety of external features that living things inhabit

ICT: 

Term 1: We are learning to understand basic computer skills and use them more efficiently.  Term 2: Identify and explore digital systems for a purpose

TERM 1 & 2 CALENDAR DATES

24th March: Last day Term 1 (Assembly 1:50pm, students finish 2:30pm)
11th April: Curriculum Day (Student free day)
12th April: First day Term 2 - Tuesday

25th April: ANZAC Day

27th April: PFA Council Meeting

                                           

Important Notices

Kids Cafè Class Roster

The Kids Cafe are calling for parent volunteers to help out and hopefully win your child's class a prize! Each class has been allocated a particular date, so please get involved - contact details are available on TiqBiz.

2O: Friday 15th April

2UO: Friday 22nd April

SunSmart

During Term 1 and Term 4, students are required to wear their Mentone Park wide-brimmed hat when outside. If a student does not have a hat, they will be required to play in a shaded area, as we do not lend hats. Students may bring sunscreen to school but they must be able to apply it independently.

Uniform

As the days become colder, please remember that school uniform does not include leggings with school dresses. Please wear pants or the tunic with stockings or socks.

Homework

Homework will be due Thursday and new homework will be sent out on Fridays. Please remember to check they are doing their spelling words and reading to a parent nightly.  

Making News

A Photo Display of What's Been Happening in Level 2

A visit from Joel, our local Policeman

A visit from Anna, our local Vet

Krystal was a Vet for a day!

Phoenix was a Policeman for the day!

 

Achievement Awards Week 7 & 8

1A: Zara S - for showing resilience and modelling features of our BOUNCE Back program.

1O: Mitchell - for always showing enthusiasm with his reading and working hard to achieve his best.

2O: published in last newsletter

2UO: Tyson - applying himself and working hard to achieve amazing vertical addition results, with carrying!
Allegra - for ignoring distractions to help achieve her very best in letter writing to thank local community members. Great work! 

Term 1 Week 7 9/3/2016 Junior School

Junior School Newsletter: Term 1, Week 7

CONNECT WITH YEAR 1/2

We have had a wonderful term in the Junior School getting to know your children as they have settled into their new classes. It is lovely to see their happy, smiling faces each morning ready to start a fresh day and learn new things. Students have readily adopted the 'growth mindset' way of thinking that we are encouraging, and are always eager to challenge themselves with new ideas and concepts.Learning is a life long journey and we look forward to travelling along this road together.

Learning and Teaching

In year 1/2 We Are Learning To (WALT)....

READING: 
Week 7: Knowing How Words Work - how nouns, verbs and adjectives help us understand what we are reading.

Week 8: Determining Importance: find the main idea in a piece of text.

SPELLING 

Grade 1 - Week 7: 'e' as in bed

               Week 8: 'ck' as in duck

Grade 2 - Week 7: 'dge' as in bridge
               Week 8: 'air' as in hair
 

WRITING: Understand the structure of a poem and how nouns,                         verbs and adjectives add interest to our poems.

MATHS: 

Grade 1 - Subtraction: model & solve subtraction problems to 20

Grade 2 - Subtraction: model & solve subtraction problems beyond                  20

UNIT OF STUDY: 

We are learning to understand the roles and responsibilities of members within the community.

ICT: 

We are learning to understand basic computer skills and use them more efficiently. Grade 1: Use basic formatting techniques when processing text in Microsoft Word (including inserting images/clipart).

  Grade 2: Using formatting and editing techniques (including      inserting images/clipart and shapes/lines) to create a sentence

TERM 1 CALENDAR DATES

Monday, March 14: Labor Day long weekend
Thursday, March 17: Curiosity & Powerful Learning Parent                                              Information Night at Mentone Primary School                                  7:30pm - 8:30pm 

Friday, March 18:     NDAB (National Day Against Bullying)        
Saturday, March 19: Working Bee 11:00am 

                                           

Important Notices

Kids Cafè Class Roster

The Kids Cafe are calling for parent volunteers to help out and hopefully win your child's class a prize! Each class has been allocated a particular date, so please get involved - contact details are available on TiqBiz.

1O: Friday 11th March
2O: Friday 15th April
2UO: Friday 22nd April

SunSmart

During Term 1 and Term 4, students are required to wear their Mentone Park wide-brimmed hat when outside. If a student does not have a hat, they will be required to play in a shaded area, as we do not lend hats. Students may bring sunscreen to school but they must be able to apply it independently.

Homework

Homework will be due Thursday and new homework will be sent out on Fridays. Please remember to check they are doing their spelling words and reading to a parent nightly.
Subtraction activities have been set on 'Mathletics' for your child to complete at home. These activities are optional and support the work we are doing in the classroom. 

Making News

A Photo Display of What's Been Happening in Level 2

Vinny, Connie and Penny have been helping us with our writing. We are looking forward to meeting Ollie next week.

Connie Connective

Vinny Vocabuary

Number plate Maths outside with 1A and 1O

1A Pyjama Class Selfie

Penny Punctuation

Sustainability with Miss Oates

Can we find the fur seal's food?

Millions tons of rubbish are pulled
from our oceans each year

Making our sustainability bunting

We pledge to keep our environment clean

Dominoes Addition

Working on our addition strategies

Achievement Awards

1A: Kathleen:  demonstrating an amazing growth mindset and determination to improve her work
Eva: making a huge effort with her reading every day 
1O: Christina - using Vinny Vocabulary to assist her to write an outstanding narrative about the monster who visited our classroom.

Zara - practicing a growth mindset to extend and challenge her thinking when completing addition with missing number problems.

2O: Luke A. : demonstrating high expectations through consistently striving to do his best and ensuring his work is well presented at all times.
Theophania: for using lots of super 'WOW' words in her writing. 

2UO: Elly- amazing enthusiasm and persistence in maths when completing addition tasks.
Ava- sensational narrative writing and use of Vinny Vocab. Amazing! 

Term 1 Week 3 10/2/16

Junior School Newsletter: Term 1, Week 3

On behalf of the Grade 1 and 2 teachers, welcome to 2016 in the Junior School. We look forward to an amazing year ahead!

CONNECT WITH YEAR 1/2

Learning and Teaching

In year 1/2 We Are Learning To (WALT)....

READING: Create pictures in our heads to help understand what is happening in the story.

SPELLING 

Grade 1 - Week 3: a as in ant

               Week 4: y as in fly

Grade 2 - Week 3: ai as in snail
               Week 4: ur as in fur
 

WRITING: Understand the structure of a narrative.

MATHS:

Grade 1 - Understand place value to make and order two digit numbers.

Grade 2 - Understand place value to make and order three digit numbers. 
UNIT OF STUDY: Form positive relationships within the classroom.
ICT: Understand procedures and expectations for ICT.

TERM 1 CALENDAR DATES

Tuesday, February 16:    Parent Teacher Meeting Sessions

Thursday, February 25:   School Photos

Friday, March 4:             Ride2School Day

Thursday, March 17:       Curiosity and Powerful Learning Parent                                            Forum at Mentone Primary School

Important Notices

Parent Teacher Meeting Sessions 

Tuesday the 16th February between 1.30pm and 6.50pm

Book online at: https://www.schoolinterviews.com.au/ Enter the code: JYPKJ 

Select your child/ren, teacher/s and choose your time
You will receive an email confirming your booking/s. Sessions are 10 minutes in duration. If you feel this is not long enough on the night, you can make another time with the teacher. 

School Photos
Please return your filled in school photo envelope prior to February 25th so that we can have them ready for the photographer on photo day.

Tri-Skills 

Friday 12th February

Friday 19th February

Friday 26th February

Friday 4th March 

1A: 12:00pm

1O: 11:30am

2O: 12:30pm

2UO: 2:00pm

SunSmart

During Term 1 and Term 4, students are required to wear their Mentone Park wide-brimmed hat when outside. If a student does not have a hat, they will be required to play in a shaded area, as we do not lend hats. Students may bring sunscreen to school but they must be able to apply it independently.

Homework

Homework will be due Thursday and new homework will be sent out on Fridays. Please remember to listen to your child read nightly.

Mrs O'Connor
We are very excited to announce that Mrs O'Connor and her husband Dash are expecting their first child later in the year. We are actively working to ensure a smooth transition for Grade 2O when Mrs O'Connor goes on maternity leave. 

Making News

A Photo Display of What's Been Happening in Level 2

Achievement Awards

1A: Arthur - for using creative writing in his recount.

1O: Boki - for creating a descriptive and creative fact flower.

2O: Zoe - for demonstrating excellent listening skills and being a fantastic role model for our class expectations.

2UO: Sienna J - for settling so beautifully into MPPS and for being a Place Value Bingo champion.

Term 4 Week 9

CONNECT WITH YEAR 1/2

Term 4 2015

Walk-A-Thon

A very big THANK YOU to everyone for supporting the Walk-A-Thon! We cant wait to get our new playground!

REMINDERS

Carols
Friday 4th December
This Friday is Mentone Park's Carols night! From 6pm-8pm come and join us for a great night of performances. Students will be singing the carols they've been practicing in class and perform their dances they've learnt in Footsteps. It is sure to be a fantastic night so don't miss it!

Excursion to Fairy Park
Tuesday 8th December
Next Tuesday is our excursion to Fairy Park. Please ensure you arrive at school by 8.30am as we are having an earlier bus and don't want you to miss out. Please make sure to bring a hat, a drink bottle and play lunch and lunch in 
separate named bags.

House Sports
Friday 11th December
The House Sports day is on next Friday. Please ensure your child dresses up in their house colours: Hinkler - Red, Hawker - Green, Kingsford-Smith - Blue, Flynn - White. The children will require a hat, a drink bottle, sunscreen and runners. Please come along and support the children and have lunch with us between 11.40 and 1pm. 

Incursion - Craft Power 
Tuesday 15th December
This is a hands-on woodwork experience using the creativity thinking skills we have been learning about in our unit of work.


A Photo Display of What's Been Happening in Level 2

Shape Maths

2D and 3D shape exploration

Aths Practice

Instead of PMP this week we have been practicing for our House Athletics next Friday. 

Mad Hatter's Tea Party

What a wonderful morning for celebrating our Wonderland Unit. Students rotated around four activities using the thinking hats to challenge themselves to think more critically.

Poetry

I went to school

and learnt how to get cool

I like to learn to read

I always succeed

When I get home I swim in the pool

By Isabella and Niamh

There was an old man who wore red

He brought presents to children in bed

He flew through the air

Delivering presents everywhere

Landing his sleigh in a shed.

By 1O

There once was a big brown bear

Who had very long luscious hair

He went to the shop

To buy a new mop

But he didn’t get anything there!

By 1B

One day there was a girl

Her name was not Pearl

Her name was really Little Red Riding Hood

She was feeling very good.

One day her Grandma was sick

So she decided to go very quick!

By Mia L

Alice

Sleepy, nice

Dreamer, curious, lovely

Alice meets the Queen of Hearts

Ali

I'm a Christmas tree

I'm as happy as can be.

I fell down a chimney

and I love singing glee.

As you can see I'm very twinkly

I'm a little happy Christmas tree.

By Maya W and Giaan P

Responsible Pet Ownership

Last Monday we went to the performing arts room to learn about Rory the dog and his owner Simon.

If you see an angry dog you stand still with your hands by your side, look to the ground and stay as quiet as a mouse.

If you want to pat a dog you stand in front of the dog, you ask the owner, you put your hand in a fist and the dog will sniff tour hand. Then you can gently pat the dogs back.

By Isabella B and Morgan D

Not long until Christmas! Enjoy!