Posts By foong.kristy
Purposeful Practice Grid Weeks 9-10
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Time in Year 1G
Week 6
In Week 6 we celebrated Book Week. We dressed up as our favourite book character and enjoyed sharing this character and our chosen book with our friends and Year 5 buddy. We also were very lucky to watch an incursion performance for Book Week 2017 called, ‘Super Duper’.
Week 7
During week 7 we celebrated Fathers Day by immersing ourselves in many different activities.
We really enjoyed making our personalised message key rings and Minion cards!
We also made an acrostic poem to share with our dads!
To top it all off we presented our special Fathers Day Assembly item after the Fathers Day Breakfast!
Week 8
This week we began looking at Aboriginal Dream Time stories.
We have read a few of these books now and are simply captivated!
Miss Foong showed us the front cover of the story ‘How the Kangaroos got their Tails’ and we then wrote our own predictions and created a chalk art piece.
We cannot wait to show these at Open Night next week!
We have also been participating in our ‘Hand eye’ Clinic.
Our coaches help us with many different hand eye coordination skills through playing tennis.
Some of the games we really like are ‘Jail’ and ‘Countdown’.
We have also learnt how to swing a forehand and a backhand shot.
We are looking forward to learning the Serve shot next.
Its always so much fun in Year One!
YEAR ONE PURPOSEFUL PRACTICE WEEK 7 AND 8
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Creative Dance Troupe!
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On Friday night, the 18th of August, 40 talented students represented St Emilies in the Creative Dance section of the Catholic Performing Arts Festival.
They danced with precision, emotion and heart and truly reflected our theme of ‘Homeless Youth’.
As part of our whole school focus on ‘Social Justice’, the students danced a piece that reflected their own thoughts and questions about homeless kids in our world. Candles were used to symbolise the light of Christ as a beacon of hope.
To the students, we are beyond proud of each and everyone of you. You gave it your all and danced beautifully. Thank you for all of your effort and commitment this year. Congratulations and well done!
-Miss Kristy Foong, Miss Chantelle Goodall and Miss Tiana Massimi
Below is the introduction to our dance for 2017
Homeless
To be without a home or a family. The feeling is an empty one.
What would people think? How would they see you? Would they even see you at all?
What does it mean to be truly homeless? Without love, without feeling, without light.
All we can do is hold the light of Christ close to us.
And we hope.
Hope that everything will be alright.
Week 5 in One Gold
There is never a dull moment in Year 1G and this week was no exception.
We are have been very busy and we are loving every minute of it!
We had a visit from Harold the Giraffe. He lives under the Life Van. Harold and his friend Gina taught us about the importance of eating right and exercising. We learnt about different organs in the body and how we can exercise our minds when we are feeling sad or nervous.
We have also been learning all about non-fiction texts and how to write a Report. Over the last few weeks we have written reports on different types of fruit and vegetables. This week we researched an Australian animal called the Rainbow Lorikeet and wrote our own report. We learnt about report structure and paragraphing.
We also made our own ‘magic paper’ and created a Rainbow Lorikeet using scratching art. We cannot wait to show these pieces at our 3 Way Interviews next week. We are very proud of them because we worked very hard!
Week 4 in Year 1G
It has been a very eventful and exciting week in Year 1G!
On Tuesday MacKillop House celebrated to Feast Day of Mary MacKillop. We wowed St Emilies with our House Assembly by singing our MacKillop song and our House cheer.
This week we learnt about a new fruit called a lychee and it is a part of Miss Foong’s Chinese Culture.
We wrote a report on the lychee fruit and we even got to eat some lychee’s.
For some of us it was our first time tasting a lychee!
There were mixed reviews 🙂
We were also very lucky and had a visit from some Year 1 and Year 2 parents for our Cultural Fair.
We would like to thank these mums and dads for coming in to share their different cultures with all of us.
A special thank you to Mrs O’Donnell who looked beautiful in her traditional Philippines outfit.
On our classroom window there is a painting of the world. Surrounding this world are our handprints with our names. We decorated our hands to reflect our personality. This art piece reminds us that even though we are all different we are also very similar. We should accept others and treat everyone to same no matter where in the world they come from.
YEAR ONE PURPOSEFUL PRACTICE WEEK 4 AND 5
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Week 3 in Year One
We have continued learning about Fractions this week.
We learnt that by cutting something into four even pieces we are making quarters.
We had a lot of fun creating our own Pizza Fraction which we cut into quarters and decorated like our favourite pizza. Every day at lunch time we are excited to open our lunch boxes to see who has a whole, half or quarters.
In Literacy we always enjoy participating in our Literacy Rotation Centres. We practice different Literacy skills in each of our centres every week. These tasks all help us to practise and improve our reading and writing!
YIPPEE!
Having lots of fun in Year One!
We’re Back for Term 3!
The Year Ones have wasted no time since getting back from holidays!
We have been busy learning lots of different things and are having lots of fun at the same time.
We have started learning about fractions. We’ve explored a whole, a half… and will soon be learning about quarters too.
We have been looking at report writing and the differences between fiction and non-fiction texts.
We have also read reports on Ladybirds, Teddybears and have written our very own report about Bananas.
Get ready, everyone. There’s much more learning to do!
