IMPORTANT SCHOOL DATES

Important school dates to remember:

7/12 – Grade 6 Graduation

8/12 – Elephant Ed – 5/6

8/12 – School Concert

12-14/12 – 5/6 Camp

14/12 – Gr 6 Big Day Out

15/12 – School swimming carnival

16/12 – Christmas themed bake sale

16/12 – Grade 6 leavers assembly 2.30-3.30pm

20/12 – Last day of Term 4 – 1.30pm finish

Help Needed!

As the school concert is next Thursday the 8th of December. The PFA are in need of some helpers to serve sausages, drinks & icy poles. If you are able to give the PFA a hand between 6:45pm till 7:30pm (or until sold out) please let Brogan know. Any help is greatly appreciated.

                                                   Thanks heaps PFA

SCHOOL CONCERT: Thursday December 8^th, 5.30pm

Dear Parents and Friends,

Next week, on Thursday 8^th December, we will be holding our school concert at 5.30pm, outside the music room. It will be followed by a BBQ hosted by the PFA at 6.45. All students will be performing. We hope you will come along and enjoy the music and socialising.

• Please bring a chair and or cushions and blanket to make yourselves comfortable.
• Feel free to bring a picnic to eat with your BBQ sausages.

SENIOR SCHOOL CHOIR CAROLS BY CANDLELIGHT Saturday 17^th December 6.30pm

This year on Saturday 17th December, the Badger Creek Children’s Choir have been invited to sing at the Healesville Carols by Candlelight celebrations. We will be joining the Women’s Choir and will be singing 2 songs. Admission is free. We are very excited about our contribution to this fantastic community event, after a 2-year break for COVID.

• We will be singing at around 7pm. Please arrive at 6.30pm.

Students will need to have black clothing on their bottom half, including black shoes if possible. WE WILL BE WEARING OUR CHOIR SHIRTS FOR THE PERFROMANCE. These will be supplied on the day when the children arrive at 6.30.

We hope to see as many choir members at the event as possible, we rely on each other to make a great sound. This concert is free, so this is your chance to see your child performing at this very special community event.

Have a great week,

Jenny Legg Music Teacher

It’s that time of the year where we get to bring the Christmas cheer into the classroom!

The Preps have shown so much pride and joy towards our Christmas tree. Piling a beautiful collection of wrapped up books for us to admire and choose from each day. This is absolutely the most suspenseful reading sessions we’ve ever had. Not knowing what books will be guiding our learning has kept the Preps (and the teachers) on their toes. But the excitement and love that comes from opening a well-loved book to share with the Prep family is truly priceless.

Across Reading and Writing, we have been learning about narratives. We’ve been identifying the main parts within stories in Reading, and using this knowledge of beginning, middle and ends to create our own narratives in Writing.

What a fantastic job they did with setting the scene, introducing the characters, creating a problem, and wrapping it up nicely with a solution. So many creative and original ideas came out in these stories. We can’t wait to begin our Christmas stories next week, now that we have mastered this art of story writing.

What’s the time Mr. Wolf? Time to learn about time! With so many of our little cherubs coming in with their watches and just last week learning to spell the word ‘watch’, we knew it was perfect timing for us to revisit the concept of time. But more specifically, am vs pm, digital vs analogue, and the key features of clocks which help us to read the time. We were blown away with just how quickly they were able to identify the difference between the minute and hour hands on an analogue clock, and how this translates on a digital clock. Such rockstar learners!

PMP has been a success this term! The Preps are loving jumping into activities where they are moving their bodies, throwing, catching, bouncing and targeting balls, skipping and crawling. It’s amazing watching their gross motor and coordination build in such a short time. They surprise themselves with how they can attempt these activities with ease.

Nothing else to report from us…

Your little one is probably fast asleep in bed as you’re reading this- they are all exhausted! It’s been a massive term. So many adventures, so much learning!

Thank you for continuing to motivate and support your little person. We know it’s not an easy task at this time of the year, but we’re nearly there!

Have a wonderful weekend.

What a week! This week has flown – you know what they say, time flies when you’re having fun!!

In Reading this week, we have been analysing the author’s purpose (to entertain, inform or persuade). We’ve analysed our own Good Fit Books and have ensured a ‘healthy reading diet’ of both fiction and non-fiction texts. Take a look at our reading photos – our students were so focused! 🙂

In Writing, we have been hard at work on planning and drafting a persuasive piece on our allocated devices. All students now have unique logins and are able to access Google Drive, just like their teachers! This allows their work to be saved automatically. We add our work to a folder titled ‘Writing’ and feel very much like we’re working in an office building!! We are also continuing to access Typing Club… and we’re improving every day! Check out our photos! It is helping us become more familiar with the keyboard and our laptops/ipads. Would you like your child to access Typing Club at home? Guess what, IT’S FREE! Click here or type Typing Club into Google, then click on the ‘jungle’ for heaps of fun lessons! Happy typing!

In Maths, we’ve had a highly interesting week, full of engaging concepts including fractions (halves, quarters and eights) and sharing into groups, area and perimeter. Take a look at our Maths photos, and ask your kids about the silly alien that helped us learn about fractions…

In Inquiry, we investigated minibeats that live underground, and above ground, and why these habitats are best suited to each.

Next week in Literacy, we’re practising multiple choice questioning when comprehending a text, and responding to both persuasive and narrative prompts, with a given timeframe. In Maths, we are moving on to transformations of shapes and objects, and interpreting calendars.

We also very much look forward to our Christmas concert performance next Thursday, and to Mr Anderson’s birthday on Monday!!!

Happy weekend!

The Year 1/2 Team