Howdy to Everyone,

The students in JS1 entered as young students and have become a wondrous group of teenagers. We continue with our usual balanced literacy and have assessment tasks well underway or completed. The year has gone way too fast for my liking.

We welcome the addition of Ms Bree to our class on Tuesday and Wednesday. Ms Bree has quickly developed positive relationships with our class and is already an important member of our classroom. Fortunately, we still have Mr Darren on Monday, Thursday and Friday.

In English we continue to explore countries including Japan, Canada and Italy. We now have passports and are getting passport stamps to show the countries we have explored. Our PowerPoints include the airlines of the particular country, aeroplane food and interesting features of each country. All the students have created their own trip to a country of their choice to demonstrate their knowledge. In addition, we continue to alternate our book of the week with imaginative and informative texts. Last week we read, ‘Wave the flag, blow the whistle.’ During reading, one student gladly whistles for me as I have never been able to whistle. Our co-written book focused on the different train stations on the Gympie to Roma Street line.

In Science we will create action plans to help us in the event of the natural phenomena we have covered. The students engaged well with topics like floods, storms and bushfires as they can relate to them. During maths the students have increased their knowledge of money and number. We have played shops and continue to engage in a range of maths activities and develop new strategies to remember our work.

We look forward to relaying more news next time,

JS1 students, Mr Darren, Ms Bree and Ms Deb.