1 AC

1AC BUSY BEES

Welcome to Year One with Miss Czislowski and Mrs Mercer.
Please make sure you check our class webpage regularly for news, reminders, important dates, curriculum information, special work we have been doing and photos of your little superstars in 1AC! If you have any queries please don't hesitate to contact me by email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

See you soon!

Updated Sunday 20th May, 2013

 L A T E S T  N E W S...

NEW! The Fair

The Fair is on this Saturday!

NEW! Revision and Testing

This week and next week (Weeks 6 & 7) we will be conducting revision and assessment in preparation for our Semester 1 reporting. Your support in ensuring the children are well rested and ready and organised for school each day is greatly appreciated :)

NEW! Under 8's day

...is this Wednesday morning.

NEW! Socks

Don't forget to send along a sock for our sock puppets this week!

 

Seeking some lovely Grandparents...

...to talk to 1AC students about what it was like when they went to school! We are learning about 'School in the Past' as part of our History studies this term and we would love some authentic accounts from our special family members. We would be looking at Monday afternoons between 2-2.30pm over the next few weeks - and just a 10-15 minute chat about what school was like for them would be perfect! If you know of a grandma or grandpa that might like to come in and talk to the students please let me know.

1AC HPE lessons - now on Monday
Now that swimming lessons have concluded, our sport day has changed from Tuesday to Monday. Please send your children to school on Mondays wearing their sport uniforms with their coloured house shirts. Wednesday sport remains as per Term 1.

Sports Choices this term

Preferred Name	Surname	Class	Week 1-5	Week 6-10
Ethan	Capiaghi	1AC	Rugby	Athletics
Dashiell	Comiskey	1AC	Rugby	Cricket
Hugo	Cornacchia	1AC	Hockey	Rugby
Ava	Covell	1AC	Athletics	Hockey
William	Djura	1AC	Playground Games	Athletics
Christopher	Dowling	1AC	Hockey	Athletics
Gisele	Eden-Gaal	1AC	Dance	Athletics
Zoe	Guard	1AC	Playground Games	Dance
Charlotte	Guildford	1AC	Playground Games	Dance
Cate	Hardinge	1AC	Dance	Athletics
Xavier	Hargreaves	1AC	Rugby	Cricket
Layth	Johnston	1AC	Playground Games	Cricket
Milan	Korte	1AC	Dance	Hockey
Sophia	Laflin	1AC	Athletics	Hockey
Jack	Leishman	1AC	Cricket	Playground Games
Heidi	Luhrs	1AC	Hockey	Athletics
Harrison	McKeown	1AC	Playground Games	Rugby
Evelyn	Montgomery	1AC	Playground Games	Dance
Phoebe	Morris	1AC	Playground Games
Gabriela	Moyle	1AC	Dance	Playground Games
Verde	Paton-Williams	1AC	Cricket
Sienna	Poxleitner	1AC	Athletics	Dance
Henry	Rudkin	1AC	Rugby	Athletics
Lachy	Sandford-Bell	1AC	Playground Games	Athletics
Chloe	Tompkin	1AC	Hockey	Dance
Yani	Weber	1AC	Playground Games	Rugby
Kelina	Wright	1AC	Playground Games	Hockey

U P C O M I N G E V E N T S

 

Monday 10 June:  Queen's Birthday
Friday 14 June:  Nambour Show Holiday
Wednesday 19 June:  P - 3 Athletics Carnival

 

 

 

1 AC T I M E T A B L E

Monday
Assembly
HPE(House coloured uniform)
Computer Lab

Tuesday
Library
Religion

Wednesday
Sport (Sports uniform with red house shirt)
Music

Thursday
Chinese
Art (even weeks)

Friday
Chapel
Buddies

 

 

 

C U R R I C U L U M I N F O R M A T I O N

 

LITERACY

 

Text type focus: Procedures

This term we will be revising the alphabet and short vowel sounds (a as in cat, e as in pet, i as in ink, o as in pot, and u as in cup). We will also be introducing blends and digraphs, focusing on 2 each week.

Letterland Sequence:

Week 5: br, wh

Week 6: sn, gh

Week 7: gl, fl

Week 8: -ed
Week 9: -ing
Week 10: revision

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NUMERACY

Our main focus in Year 1 is to revise understanding of all aspects of the numbers 1-20 and beyond. This means writing the numbers correctly, understanding positions/order and value as well as addition and subtraction. Along with number we will also be looking at patterning, shapes, units of measurement and probability.

 

 

SOCIAL STUDIES

What was school like 100 years ago?

In Year 1, students will analyse the past and present family life within the context of their personal world. Students will learn how family life has changed or remained the same over time, and on the similarities and differences between students’ daily lives and life during their parents’ and grandparents’ childhoods. They will explore what school was like 100 years ago and investigate the clothing worn to school and leisure activities.

Guiding Questions:

* How can we show that the present is different from or similar to the past?

* How do we describe the sequence of time?

* What was school like 100 years ago (classrooms, students, desks, teacher, rules)?

* How have the clothes changed?

 

 

SCIENCE

Up, Down and All Around - Earth and Space Science
Look out your window and you will see a constantly changing world. The Sun rises and sets and the sky reflects many different hues over a day. The landscape, everything we know about the environment began by observing it. Environmental modelling, space exploration and city planning all rely on careful observations of the land and sky. This unit provides opportunities for students to explore natural, made and managed features that undergo change. Through outdoor observations and photographic records, students investigate the daily, weekly and seasonal changes in their local environment.

Guiding Questions:
* What features of the sky and landscape change over time?

* How does human activity affect features of the landscape?

* Compare the changes over different timescales

 

 

ART

Coming Soon!

LOTE

Coming Soon!

CURRICULUM
For the Year One 2013 Curriculum Parent Guide, please click here. For St Andrew's Primary School curriculum, teaching and learning questions, please contact Sue Bambling at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

H O M E W O R K

The Year 1 students will receive a homework grid each Friday. This grid is glued into the homework book and gives details of the homework activities to be completed for each week. The homework is then due the following Thursday and we will mark and return the students homework books each Friday with the homework to complete for the following week. By distributing the homework each Friday, it allows for its completion either over the weekend or during the week, as we find that some families are busy with after school committments during the week.

Home readers

When you receive your child's home reader, please sign the record sheet and return it each day and we will send home a new reader. You will also have the opportunity to complete a digital reader using 'Bug Club' over the weekends.

W E B S I T E S

Click on the links below to take you straight to these great websites!

Mathletics

Bug Club

Reading Eggs

 

Numeracy Websites

Use these links to practice your maths skills!

Hundreds Chart

Numerical Order

Connect the dots

Math Popper

Sharks

Ten Frame

 

 

Kind regards

Alena Czislowski               Mrs Mercer
Year 1AC Class Teacher   Class Teacher Aide