Junior School Newsletter: Term 4, Weeks 6 & 7

Junior School Newsletter: Term 4, Weeks 6 & 7

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It's hard to believe it's nearly December and only four weeks of school left until the end of the year. We are very proud of the student's achievements and we look forward to watching their learning journey in the future. 

We were very excited to have the 2018 Preps join us for some fun games and a sausage sizzle on Wednesday. The grade 5s did an outstanding job of leading the morning. The current Preps also joined in and felt like the big kids!

Our Transition 'Up Days' for 2018 have commenced for all Levels. All students came back very excited on Monday after experiencing their new Levels.

Students are very excited to be participating in the STOMP Dance Program in preparation for our Christmas Carols night. It's delightful to watch their enthusiasm as they learn a new dance sequence each week.

Not long until our end of year celebration excursion! Further details and payment required will be sent out shortly. We look forward to sharing this fun session with all our students.

IMPORTANT DATES & NOTICES

23rd, 30th, 7th, 14th November - STOMP every Thursday

28th November - Curriculum Day

1st December - A-Thon 
4th December - UP Day
8th December - House sports
15th December  - Carols night
20th December - Excursion to Kid Space
22nd December - Last day of term 1:30 finish

Please return the Essential Education and Voluntary Payments 2018 forms as soon as possible, thank you.  

IN THE JUNIOR SCHOOL WE ARE LEARNING TO: (WALT)...

READING – WEEK 6

F:  I can identify some important parts of the story e.g.main characters and  setting

1: I can identify some important parts of the story including characters and  setting 

2: I can identify some important parts of the story including characters,setting, the problem and the solution

READING – WEEK 7

F:  I can identify words in books and songs

1: I actively listen, contribute ideas and pose questions when discussing texts

2: I listen for specific purposes and information to discuss and extend my ideas

WRITING - WEEK 6

F: I can write a letter using familiar words 

1: I can write a letter using correct structure

2: I can write a letter organising my ideas in the correct structure

WRITING - WEEK 7:

F: I can use known words in my writing

1: I can write interesting stories. 

2: I can work out the beginning, middle and end of a story

MATHS – WEEK 6:

F: I can understand how money is used in everyday situations

1: I can recognise, describe and order Australian coins

2: I can count and order a small collection of Australian coins

3: I can represent money values in multiple ways and count change for simple        transactions

MATHS – WEEK 7:

F: I can understand how money is used in everyday situations

1: I can recognise, describe and order Australian coins

2: I can count and order a small collection of Australian coins

3: I can represent money values in multiple ways and count change for simple        transactions

INQUIRY - YUMMY IN MY TUMMY:

Week 6: exploring how plants and animals are grown for food, clothing and shelter (VCDSTC015)

Week 5: identifying and categorising a wide range of foods (VCDSTC016)

WELLBEING:– WEEK 6:

Foundation:

• Students describe characterisitics of good behaviour

• Students identify ways in which individual strengths are use in play

Grade 1 and 2:
Students recognise partnership skills used in a collaborative task. 
Students describe where these social skills are needed in the playground and classroom. 

WELLBEING:– WEEK 7:

Foundation:

• Students recognise the kinds of characteristics that may trigger emotions

• Students identify partnership skills that are needed in the playground

Grade 1 and 2:

• Students practise listening and self-regulation skills

• Students identify listening as an important skill for learning

      

ICT:

F:  I can use a keyboard/touchpad to create a simple sentence using key words. I can use the keyboard i.e.use the delete, return, capslock button and space bar.

1/2: I can type in a specific web address to view information. I can use the delete, return, caps lock button and spacebar.

SPELLING - WEEK 6

F: wh as in wheel

1: all as in ball

2: ll as in bell hill

SPELLING - WEEK 7

F: oo as in book

1: ss as in grass

2: i-e as in white

WORKING WITH CHILDREN CHECK

All parents/guardians, visitors & volunteers to the school MUST sign in & out of the school and display their WWCC in a lanyard, which is available at the school office. The Department of Education requires any person involved in an activity where children may be present to have a current WWCC or have supplied proof that they have applied for a WWCC with the Department of Justice. All schools are required to comply with the Working with Children Act 2005. Volunteers are expected to carry the WWCC card with them at all times when working or volunteering at the school or during school related activities. There is no fee for this check. Apply now by visiting: www.workingwithchildren.vic.gov.au  The Junior School encourage and appreciate parent helpers. Please see your child's teacher if you are able to assist.

Junior School Newsletter: Term 4, Weeks 3 & 4 & 5

Junior School Newsletter: Term 4, Weeks 3, 4 & 5

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Term 4 is flying past and with exciting events like our Play is the Way Open Day, the Art Show, 2018 Prep Transition, new lunchtime clubs (Chess, Drama, Coding, Choir and Mandala drawing), Nude Food Week, and the fantastic Market Fresh in-visit, we are thoroughly enjoying it so far! We are looking forward to STOMP commencing next week, and Grade 2s attending the Remembrance Day ceremony tomorrow at Mentone RSL. Big Writes continue to be a fun and engaging task for our students and we are so proud of the creative and imaginative work they are producing as part of the VCOP program! Across the Junior School, we are watching our plants grow and we are looking forward to some delicious school-grown produce at the end of the term!

Thank you to our parents who came and helped!

Helping out with our new chicks!

Enjoying the Market Fresh in-visit

Presenting at assembly - sharing our experience of Nude Food Week

Keeping our school tidy!

Wow! Look at those carrots and cucumbers go!

Making observations about our plants

We LOVE Coding Club!

We LOVE Coding Club!

IMPORTANT DATES & NOTICES

10th November - Grade 2s walk to RSL for Remembrance Day Ceremony

16th November - STOMP commences

20th November - Future Care Mobile Dental Clinic this week
28th November - Curriculum Day

1st December - A-Thon 

Please send in forms for the Future Care Mobile Dental Clinic ASAP if you would like to utilise their services. See the office for a new form if required.

Please return the Essential Education and Voluntary Payments 2018 forms as soon as possible, thank you.  

IN THE JUNIOR SCHOOL WE ARE LEARNING TO: (WALT)...

READING – WEEK 3

F:  I can predict what might happen in different parts of a story (VCELY186)

1: I can use clues from the text to make inferences and predictions (VCELY186)

2: I can use clues from the text to make inferences and predictions (VCELY222)

READING – WEEK 4

F:  I can predict what might happen in different parts of a story (VCELY186)

1: I can use clues from the text to make inferences and predictions (VCELY186)

2: I can use clues from the text to make inferences and predictions (VCELY222)

READING – WEEK 5

F:  I can use the beginning of words to help me solve unknown words in texts

1:I can sound out different letter combinations.

2:I can change the end of words to help me read and understand words

WRITING - WEEK 3 

F: Understand that language can be used to explore ways of expressing needs, likes and dislikes (VCELA166)

1: I can write informatively (VCELY194)

2: I can write about my opinion and convince people to agree with it (VCELY230)

WRITING - WEEK 4

F: I can use known words in my writing

1: I can write interesting stories.  (VCELY194)

2: I can work out the beginning, middle and end of a story (VCELT219)

WRITING - WEEK 5

F: I can reread my own writing most of the time

1:I can check my writing to see if it makes sense.

2:I can check my spelling using a dictionary.

MATHS – WEEK 3:

F: Name and order days of the week & connect them to familiar events and actions (VCMMG080)

1: Describe duration using months, weeks, days and hours (VCMMG096)

2:  Name and order months and seasons (VCMMG118)

     Use a calendar to identify the date and determine the number of days in each month (VCMMG119)

3:  Tell the time to the minute & investigate the relationship between units of time (VCMMG141)

MATHS – WEEK 4:

F: Compare and order the duration of events using the everyday language of time (VCMMG079)

1: Tell time to the half-hour (VCMMG096)

2: Tell time to the quarter-hour, using the language of 'past' and 'to' (VCMMG117)

3:  Tell time to the minute and investigate the relationship between units of time (VCMMG141)

MATHS – WEEK 5:

F: Foundations: Sort, describe and name familiar two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional objects in the environment - sorting and describing squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, spheres and cubes

Level 1: Recognise and classify familiar two-dimensional objects using obvious features

Level 2: Describe and draw two-dimensional shapes, with and without digital technologies

Describe the features of three dimensional objects

Level 3: Make models of three dimensional objects and describe key features

INQUIRY - YUMMY IN MY TUMMY:

Week 3 & 4: developing an understanding of food that keep us healthy

Week 5: Explore how food is selected and prepared for healthy eating (VCDSTC016)

WELLBEING: Play is The Way Open Day

Foundation:

• Students are able to name emotions

• Students express emotions through facial and body expressions

• Students practise recognising other people’s emotions

Week 3 & 4 Grade 1 and 2:

• Students identify emotions in others

• Students empathise with others

• Students suggest ways to help others

Week 5 Grade 1 & 2:

·         Students recognise what sorts of sounds are associated with different emotions.

·         Students identify times when they have shown an act of kindness to a peer or family member

·         Students describe what emotions they felt at this time

·         Students suggest emotions that others might feel when people show kindness to them

ICT:

F:  I can use a keyboard/touchpad to create a simple sentence using key words. I can use the keyboard i.e.use the delete, return, capslock button and space bar.

1/2: I can type in a specific web address to view information. I can use the delete, return, caps lock button and spacebar.

SPELLING - WEEK 3

F: oa as in boat

1: ch as in chair

2: f as in fish

SPELLING - WEEK4

F: oo as in moon

1: ch as in chair

2: f as in fish

SPELLING – WEEK 5

Review week – no homework

WORKING WITH CHILDREN CHECK

All parents/guardians, visitors & volunteers to the school MUST sign in & out of the school and display their WWCC in a lanyard, which is available at the school office. The Department of Education requires any person involved in an activity where children may be present to have a current WWCC or have supplied proof that they have applied for a WWCC with the Department of Justice. All schools are required to comply with the Working with Children Act 2005. Volunteers are expected to carry the WWCC card with them at all times when working or volunteering at the school or during school related activities. There is no fee for this check. Apply now by visiting: www.workingwithchildren.vic.gov.au  The Junior School encourage and appreciate parent helpers. Please see your child's teacher if you are able to assist.

Junior School Newsletter: Term 4, Weeks 1 & 2

Junior School Newsletter: Term 4, Weeks 1 and 2

CONNECT WITH THE JUNIOR SCHOOL

Welcome back to Term 4! We have hit the ground running, enjoying our first few weeks together learning about how plants grow, starting our own school gardens, having fun with Big Writes, and preparing for the Art Show which was a terrific success. Thank you to all families who were able to spend time viewing and hearing about the amazing art that students have created with Mrs Unwin over the year, we are so proud of their creativity. Thank you to Angus & Aileen for their presentation about the harvesting, packing and marketing of fresh fruit and vegetables, the kids LOVED it and learned a lot!

IN THE JUNIOR SCHOOL WE ARE LEARNING TO: (WALT)...

READING – WEEK 1

F: Explore the different contribution of words and images to meaning in stories and informative texts (VCELA145)

1: Compare different kinds of images in narrative and informative texts and discuss how they contribute to meaning (VCELA180)

2: Identify visual representations of characters’ actions, reactions, speech and thought processes in narratives, and consider how these images add to or contradict or multiply the meaning of accompanying words (VCELA215)

READING – WEEK 2

F: Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students’ own experiences (VCELT148). I can make connections between myself and the text. (VCELT148)

1: I can make connections between myself and the text. (VCELY186)

2: I can make connections between myself and the text. (VCELY222)

WRITING - WEEK 1 

F: Understand that punctuation is a feature of written text different from letters and recognise how capital letters are used for names, and that capital letters and full stops signal the beginning and end of sentences (VCELA156) I can write upper and lower case letters correctly most of the time

1: Recognise that different types of punctuation, including full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, signal sentences that make statements, ask questions, express emotion or give commands (VCELA190) I can - use full stops in my writing

2: Recognise that capital letters signal proper nouns and commas are used to separate items in lists (VCELA225) I can - use capital letters for proper nouns in my writing

WRITING - WEEK 2

F: Understand that language can be used to explore ways of expressing needs, likes and dislikes (VCELA166)

1: I can write informatively (VCELY194)

2: I can write about my opinion and convince people to agree with it (VCELY230)

MATHS – WEEK 1:

F: understand place value of numbers to 50 and what it represents

1: understand place value of numbers to 100 and what it represents

2: understand place value of numbers to 1000 and what it represents

3: understand place value of numbers to 10000 and what it represents

MATHS – WEEK 2:

F: Establish understanding of the language and processes of counting by naming numbers in sequences, initially to and from 20, moving from any starting point (VCMNA069)

1: Develop confidence with number sequences to and from 100 by ones from any starting point. Skip count by twos, fives and tens starting from zero (VCMNA086)

2: Investigate number sequences, initially those increasing and decreasing by twos, threes, fives and ten from any starting point, then moving to other sequences (VCMNA103)

3: Recognise, model, represent and order numbers to at least 10 000

INQUIRY - YUMMY IN MY TUMMY:

Week 1 & 2: considering the suitability of a range of tools when cultivating gardens, mulching and building garden structures. Identifying products that can be designed and produced from plants

 

WELLBEING: 

Foundation: Students develop vocabulary to identify emotions. Students identify the ways in which emotions are shown in body language.

Grade 1 and 2: Students name some of the commonly experienced emotions. Students identify the ways in which emotions are shown in body language.

ICT:

F:  I can use a keyboard/touchpad to create a simple sentence using key words. I can use the keyboard i.e.use the delete, return, capslock button and space bar.

1/2: I can type in a specific web address to view information. I can use the delete, return, caps lock button and spacebar.

SPELLING - WEEK 1

F: br as in brown

1: or as in fork

2: wr as in wrist

SPELLING - WEEK 2

F: ck as in duck

1:th as in feather

2:kn as in knee

WORKING WITH CHILDREN CHECK

All parents/guardians, visitors & volunteers to the school MUST sign in & out of the school and display their WWCC in a lanyard, which is available at the school office. The Department of Education requires any person involved in an activity where children may be present to have a current WWCC or have supplied proof that they have applied for a WWCC with the Department of Justice. All schools are required to comply with the Working with Children Act 2005. Volunteers are expected to carry the WWCC card with them at all times when working or volunteering at the school or during school related activities. There is no fee for this check. Apply now by visiting: www.workingwithchildren.vic.gov.au  The Junior School encourage and appreciate parent helpers. Please see your child's teacher if you are able to assist.                                                                              

IMPORTANT DATES

23rd October - 27th October - Children's Week

27th October - Play is the Way Open Day (11:30am-1:30pm) BBQ LUNCH
27th October - Scholastic Book Orders Due
28th October - Bunnings BBQ
3rd November - Market Fresh In-Visit
Week starting 20th November - Future Care Mobile Dental Clinic

NUDE FOOD WEEK - students are excited for our Nude Food Week and there are prizes to be won with a raffle that grants an entry for every day that students bring 'nude food'. For more information, please click this link:How to pack a NUDE FOOD LUNCH

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