Red Dragons Class news

Hi Families!

Well what an amazing day we had for our Project Day! It was fantastic to see all the groups working, discussing, testing and building their boats together! Sharing ideas and solving how they would build a boat that could float from random items in a tote tray! I was really impressed with the discussions going on as the groups were working toward completing their boats! Well done everybody!

Friday is Walk Safely to School Day! There will be a Police Officer at the crossing at Australia Street supporting all you safe walkers!

Also, on Friday I will be representing the school as the Federation Rep. for the two hour stop work meeting in regards to the Local Schools Local Decisions policy. Red Dragons are very lucky to have Principal Webber taking the class for the morning!!

So what have we been doing in class:

Our sight words this week are Year 1: ate, be, black, brown. Year 2: call, fast, gave, made. Our blends this week are Year 1: tr. Year 2: 0a, ow. We have been learning about The Titanic. We did a book study on Samson’s Titanic Journey and looked at how much Samson’s journey reflected what really happened with the Titanic. Our grammar focus this week are adjectives. We looked at different pictures from Samson Titanic and used describing words that matched the pictures in detail and feelings.

In Maths, we have continued our counting by 2s, 5s and 10s. We are learning about using doubles and near doubles when adding. ”Its no trouble for me to add doubles!” (Get a Red Dragon to sing the song to you!) We continuing reviewing 3D shapesby naming and describing their features. We are also continuing to look at volume and capacity to go with all our wonderful learning of floating and sinking. 

The Buddies  topic this week is: Co-operation. Co-operation is when people work together to get something done. Sometimes we have different ideas on  how to do something and by cooperating we can get those things done. If we don’t cooperate then things don’t get done!

In Science we continue to look at Floating and Sinking. We learnt about the concepts of density, buoyancy and displacement. Again we got to go down to the grassed area and experimented with different items in the water tray to see these concepts in action. It was a great sunny day on the grass!

Hope you are doing well and I will catch you on the playground!

Keep Smiling,

Michael Kristic

Hello Families!

We have been gearing up to our big project day next week learning all about things that float and sink. The day will involve the students working in groups to make a sea worthy vessel! Should be great!

As part of that day we are also having an Anaphylaxis Awareness day. Students need to bring in a gold coin donation for No Uniform Day!

So what have we the Red Dragons been up to:

Our sight words this week are Year 1: all, am, are, at. Year 2: take, think, always, before. Our blends this week are Year 1: cr. Year 2: 0_e . We continued looking at Procedure. We built an origami boat following a tricky procedure! Also the news item procedures have been great. Milly did a great on on face-painting, Tilda on Surfing, David on Sushi and Maia on her her own “Bag made out of a piece of paper and sticky tape!Our grammar focus this week are verbs (to go with our Procedure actions)

In Maths, we have continued our counting by 2s, 5s and 10s. We are learning our time, o’clock, half past and quarter to and past.  We continuing reviewing 3D shapes by naming and describing their features. We are also looking at volume and capacity linked with our float and sink theme. 

The Buddies  topic this week is: Support. Support is when we help people in all different kinds of situations. We can support people when they need help, when they are sick, for encouragement and when they are sad.

In Science we continue to look at Floating and Sinking. We experimented with different materials and shapes and first predicted which would float and sink. We then went down to the grassed area and tested our predictions in the water tray. It was very interesting to see the reactions to their predictions!

Hope you are doing well and I will catch you on the playground!

Keep Smiling,

Michael Kristic

Hello Families!

Welcome back! I Hope you all had a wonderful break!

There is no assembly on tomorrow as it has moved to Friday 2:15pm for a special farewell assembly for Mr. Cheng’s last day!

Year 2 had their Buddy Leader Camp on Monday and had a blast! The Year 2’s worked together discussing what it means to be a leader and how to work together as a group. Year 2 broke off into groups and worked together beautifully to design, make, solve problems and test different group challenges such as building a stable tower of BBQ skewers and building a bridge to span a water obstacle and support a car.  I was so proud how they all worked so well together and think they are going to be fantastic leaders!

So what have we been doing this week:

Our sight words this week are Year 1: we, where, yellow, you. Year 2: his, left, old, put. Our blends this week are Year 1: dr, fr. Year 2: -igh, -y. This term we are doing Procedure. We have had a look at the features of a procedure and have started making many things. We made a fishbowl spinner last week that the students really enjoyed! Our grammar focus this we are homophones (words that sound the same but spelt differently)

In Maths, we have continued our counting by 2s, 5s and 10s. We are reviewing our column addition with remainders from last term. We are reviewing 3D shapes by naming and describing there features. We are also looking at position and how to explain directions using left, right, turn and forward. This was a fun activity making directions for each other and seeing where we would end up in the classroom!

We are starting Buddies this week and the topic is: Integrity. A person with integrity is both honest and fair. Being honest and fair is the right thing to do.

In Science this term we are going to look at the theme of Floating and Sinking. In class we will be looking at the materials, shapes and items that help things float or sink. This will be lead up to a huge project day in Week 4 were the buddy groups will work together with this knowledge to make a boat! I can’t wait as the teachers had a go at building boats and had a great time!

Let me know how you are all going and if you have questions or concerns let me know!

Keep Smiling,

Michael Kristic

Hello Families!

Well its the last week of term! Its seems like yesterday we were all getting to know each other and our shoes playing shoe and tell!! I am very lucky to have my Red Dragons and they have all been wonderful this term!

Our last assembly is on this week on Thursday at 2:30pm!

It is a crazy last week as I am away for two days doing professional development. The first day I will be training to become the schools Anti- Racism Contact Officer and the second is learning about using quality literature in literacy! The Red Dragons are very lucky to have Miss Collen from pre school to teach them while I am away. She is very excited to see all those lovely pre schoolers she taught again and see how they have grown up!

Don’t forget as part of our Healthy Food science unit I am organising Red Dragons to make rice paper rolls on Thursday on the last day of school. Kerrie Cant is helping out and we’d be happy for others to join us. If there any food allegies to veggies, let me know! We are beginning the rolling at 12pm!

So this week in class is a revision week and also looking at the Easter celebration.

Our sight words this week are Year 1: jump, little, make, said. Year 2: every, would, found, because. Our blends this week are Year 1: revision. Year 2: revision. We continue to work on Recount in writing looking at books linked to Easter this week. We looked at the book Duck’s Easter Egg Hunt!  We are revising our grammar knowlege on nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and pronouns. 

 In Maths, we have continued our counting by 2s, 5s and 10s. We are looking at Position and how to follow direction and describe the space you are in. We started looking at Time and reading time on the hour, half hour and quarter hour. We are continuing to look at addition and subtraction and continuing the column format when adding and subtracting.

 In Art, we will be doing all sorts of art and craft revolving around the Easter celebration.

Hope you all have a wonderful and safe break!! I’m going to try to get myself fit and in shape!

Keep Smiling!

Michael Kristic

Hello Families!

Well Grandfriends Day was a blast! Red Dragons sang so beautifully to the Flying Rock song and bopping along ! We had a great time showing our Grandfriends what we get up to on the active board and showing them around the class! Then to finish it off we got to have a delicious sausage sizzle! Thanks for popping in Grandfriends!!

So what have Red Dragons been doing class…

Our sight words this week are Year 1: run, said, see, the. Year 2: myself, pick, six, today. Our blends this week are Year 1: adding ’s’s to short 3 letter words. Year 2: -ea. We continue to work on Recount in writing looking at books linked to Grandfriends. This week we looked at the book Grandpa’s Cardigan. We continue our grammar focus this week on pronouns, (words that replace a noun; he, she. i it, they) 

 In Maths, we have continued our counting by 2s, 5s and 10s. We continue to look at Money and adding and subtracting using coins and notes. We started looking at Hundreds in Place Value and was surprised how quickly Year 1 picked them up! We are continuing to look at addition and subtraction and introducing the column format when adding and subtracting..

In Personal Development, we talked about why rules are important and why we should follow them. Red Dragons role played what happens when there are no rules in games and how games a ruined. We also discussed following rules in class and how it is unfair to our friends.

 In Art, we finished off our wizard hats for our performance and they all looked amazing! They looked like they could have really put a spell on a rock to fly!

As part of our Healthy Food science unit I am organising Red Dragons to make rice paper rolls next Thursday on the last day of school. Kerrie Cant is helping out and we’d be happy for others to join us. If there any food allegies to veggies, let me know!

If you have any questions about what we’ve been doing, come and have a chat!

Keep Smiling!

Michael Kristic

Hello Families!

Miss McGinty has been working hard with all the classes to prepare them for St. Patrick’s Day next week. As part of a special assembly that will be on next Friday 16th March 2:30pm the classes will be performing some Irish dancing! Be there for the craic!

In the newsletter there was an order form for the sausage sizzle on Grandfriends Day 28th March. Please bring the order form by Friday 23rd March. No form, no sausage! : )

Lastly, just a reminder that no children are allowed to play on the equipment before or after school due to lack of supervision and the high number of injuries that occur to students and sibling toddlers.

So what have we been doing class…

Our sight words this week are Year 1: is, it, jump,little. Year 2: or, sing, their, us. Our blends this week are Year 1: short u. Year 2: a-e. We continue to work on Recount in writing looking at reviewing books and different texts. This week we looked at the book Dear Dragon. We continue our grammar focus this week on verbs and trying to improve our writing using them.

In Maths, we have continued our counting by 2s, 5s and 10s.  We continue to look at Money and adding and subtracting using coins and notes. We will also continue or work on Data by making column graphs and using tally marks to record data of our favourite things by interviewing our fellow Red Dragons.

In Art, we looked at the works of Picasso particularly his cubism portraits of the Weeping Woman and The Three Musicians. We discussed what we could see in the pictures and what they reminded us of or how they made us feel. There was a great variety of differentthoughts and feelings discussed about the two portraits. From looking like a bird nest, looking like a relative (not sure if that’s good or bad) to reminding us of a funeral or the cold. Red Dragons then tried their hands at cubist portraits with some very impressive results from our pint sized Picasso’s! Well done Red Dragons!

If you have any questions about what we’ve been doing, come and have a chat!

Keep Smiling!

Michael Kristic

Hi Families!

Wow! Half way through the term already!! Time flies when your having fun! And that’s something the Red Dragons have been doing a lot of in their learning. I am so happy with how everyone has settled in and are working together as one big team! I have assessed everyone’s reading and maths levels and am impressed with Red Dragons’ abilities! Keep up the good work Red Dragons!

So what have we been doing class…

Our sight words this week are Year 1: help, here, I ,in. Year 2: buy, don’t, found, it’s. Our blends this week are Year 1: short o. Year 2: revision. We continue to work on Recount in writing looking at reviewing books and different texts. Our grammar focus this week are verbs! We have also doing lots of work on punctuation. Capital letters and full stops are something that Red Dragons can forget to put in their wonderful writing and we have been working on reminding ourselves how important they are to make a sentence!

In Maths, we have continued our counting by 2s, 5s and 10s (something I think that can easily be practiced anywhere).  We looked more at place value and all the Red Dragons now have a great understanding of tens and ones and how to make two digit numbers using them. We began to look at Money and using different coins to make an amount. (This is another great opportunity for real world practice). Some are still wrestling with the concept of dollars and cents. But as I always say, “If you can count from 1-10, you can count any number!” We will also be continuing or work on Data by making column graphs and using tally marks to record data.

As part of our Healthy Eating science unit we made a healthy food restaurant menu. The Red Dragons made up names for their restaurants and made a menu of healthy food options which we made into a paper menu and laminated! (Yes Christine!) They turned out beautifully!! If you get a chance, check out these fine establishments: Tom’s Cooking Wonderland, Dom’s Famous Food, Jack’s Food Adventures, Darcy’s Cool Fish, Paddy’s Perfect Pad Thai’s or Milly’s Fancy Wonderland Shop among others!

Hope you’re doing well! Come up and say hello!

Keep Smiling!

Michael Kristic

Hello Families!

Don’t forget Ann Lambert is running a Parent Helper Workshop this Friday at 9am. It is a good opportunity to learn ways to help support our kids literacy from our very own reading guru!

So what have the Red Dragons been up to in class…

Our sight words this week are Year 1: go, for, find, funny. Year 2: stop, then, when, been. Our blends this week are Year 1: Revision short a,e, i. Year 2: compund words. We have been continuing to work on Recount in writing. The Red Dragons are showing some impressive recounts and are doing a great job! Our grammar focus this week is adverbs!

In Maths, we have had some of our own Maths Discos! Singing and dancing while counting by 2s, 5s and 10s. We also had a walkthrough Mathletics to make sure everyone knew how to use it and show each other were all the really cool stuff is!  We continued our work with 3D Shapesfocusing on edges, corners and faces as well as looking at the shapes that make 3D shapes! We will also be starting our work on Data by making column graphs and using tally marks to record data.

As always we like to get a bit Arty in Red Dragons! After reading “I Wish I Had Duck Feet” we made drawing of what animal part we would like to have and why! Also we made some beautiful Bubble writing patterns for our names as part of or theme about looking at ourselves.

If you have any questions come up and have a chat!

Keep Smiling!

Michael Kristic