Dont Forget!!!!!
Class Presentation coming soon!!!
Hopefully your child has been busy asking their grandparents questions about the olden days.  Your child will need to prepare a 2 minute talk to present their findings about their grandparents life to the rest of the class.  Photos would be great if possible!  They can make a poster, a powerpoint or just speak to the class about the answers their grandparents gave.

Presentations will commence next Monday 17th June, so please help them to practise at home before this date.

Any questions please dont hesitate to see me!

Thank you in advance for your support!
Shannyn

Reminder : No School this Monday! 

Everyone have a safe long weekend.  See you Tuesday. 

Thank you from 1SD!

A huge thank you to the following for all your support in getting our fish tank up and running!

Lachlan Kaing and family for donating fish and plants,

Tyra and family for the weeds,

and Lisa - Marie and family for all your efforts.

THANK YOU ALL. It looks AMAZING!

FEEL FREE TO COME AND CHECK THEM OUT!

Here is what some of the kids had to say on the way home in the bus!

"I liked going to school. The lady was very grumpy." By Hayley.
"I liked writing on the slate boards. I liked it when the teacher smacked the bambo stick on the table. By Jay
"My favorite part was eating the damper and going on the train." By Ashleigh
" The best part of the day was making the bread and writing on the slate board at school. By Lisa-Marie
"The best part of the day was playing on the play ground." By Jada
"The emu was so annoying. By Mikayla
"My favorite part of the day was when the emu tried to get us." By Liam

What a fun day!

Hi from Coal Creek!

Congratulations to the Coady Family for the safe arrival of their little girl 'Kiara'.

                     A BIG WELCOME TO OUR NEW FAMILIES!                            

                                                   WHAT A FUN DAY WE HAD!!



P.J Day

 

PLEASE CLICK ON TERM 2 FOR NEW UPDATE!

Welcome back to Term 2

Hello and welcome back to term 2. What a bumpy week we have just had. I think all of the kids bar one child, including myself came down with a horrible bug. I hope everyone is feeling better and I look forward to seeing you all on Monday.

Congratulations to Erica Coady and the family on the arrival of their little baby girl. We wish you all the best and look forward to seeing you soon.

This term you may here the words Daily 5, Read to Self, Read to Someone, Word work. As a whole school we are implementing the Daily 5 program during our reading groups. The content is the same, however the structure for the reading groups change.  What I am enjoying about the program is that it is allowing me to catch up more often with your children to discuss their reading with them working on areas of need. This occurs sometimes one on one or in a small group.

Reading strategies discussed this week. We want children to do these independently. 
-Attention to Punctuation - full stops, comma, talking marks. When children pay attention to these there reading sounds fluent and phrased.
-Reading needs to make sense.  If it doesn't make sense children need to re-read to gain more meaning.
-We read for enjoyment. How to pick best fit books. Books that interest us and are not to hard.

Sound/Letter blends discussed this term. Please reinforce at home when reading readers.
Words beginning bl, br, cr, cl
Endings including ing, s, er, ed

Free Dress Day this Friday!

Bring a gold coin or an Easter egg to go into our Easter Raffle.

Harmony Day - Next Friday 

Don't forget to complete your page about your family! Looking forward to seeing them. Please return by early next next! 

Hello Everyone,

This week in 1SD we have some exciting news. We have water in our fish tank! Yeh! A BIG thank you goes to Paula Markakos (Lisa-Marie's mum) for giving up 2 hours to install and set everything up along with organising the parts required. THANK YOU Paula from everyone in 1SD. Fish to come soon!

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Swimming

Swimming has started with no problems and the children seem to be enjoying the experience. I will be going Thursday so I will see you there. Just a reminder the bus leaves at 9 am. Please have children here by 5 to as we start to head over to the bus.

 

Classroom Helpers

Big thank you to the mums that have come in and let me know when they are able to assist with Reading, Writing and Maths. If you would like to assist please come in and we can organise a time.
 

Class Reps

A big thank you to Soozie Krcevinac and Pauline Sivell for volunteering to be our class reps for 2013. A note went home this week with children's details and an outline of their responsibilities. Don't hesitate to get in contact with either if you have any great ideas throughout the year.
 

REMINDER NO SCHOOL THIS FRIDAY and MONDAY!
 

BIRTHDAYS FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH!!!
 

Happy Birthday Alyssa, Zane, Ashleigh and Ketaki!!

 

Welcome to 1SD

Welcome to 1SD's class blog!  Here you will find up to date information about what we are getting up to in the classroom!  You will also find class notices and any reminders for the up coming weeks. 

This will be updated throughout the week as required.

Updated : 28th March 2013

Hi Everyone. I hope you are all having a great week. I can’t believe that it is already March and we have only 4 more weeks till the end of term.

 

CALLING FOR PARENT HELPERS! J

I am now looking for PARENT HELPERS who would like to come and assist in the classroom with Reading and Maths.  Please check out the Class Timetable Page on this blog for more information regarding times!

Please come and see me or leave me a comment if there is a time that you would like to assist.

 

Just a reminder to let you know, this year we have a change of policy with notices and who they are given to.  All notices need to be given to the classroom teacher, along with any money.  I then collate them into a class list and forward it on to the office.  Please understand that our office staff are very busy and have other things that they must do so I please ask that they come to me.

 

Reminders/Upcoming Events

*Don’t forget swimming starts next Tuesday.  Changes were made recently to our times and we are now swimming first, leaving at 9 am.  We ask that all children are here by 8.45 am. Could all children please arrive at school ready for swimming, with caps on, bathers under their clothes and thongs on.  Please have their school shoes in their bags so they can get changed into back at school after swimming. 

For parents who wish to come and watch down at the pool the lesson will start at 10.05 am and will go for 40 mins.  We look forward to seeing you all there.  For those parents that offered to assist with coming on the bus I would like to say a big thank you to you however due to limited spaces on the buses and a re-gig of classes we are short of room.  Thank you and apologies for the late change.  We will see you there!

 

*Next Friday is a Public Holiday!  No School.

 

Till next time….. Keep Smiling!  And please come and see me if you have any concerns!
 

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