Plastic Bottles & Cabbage Moths

We still haven't collected sufficient number of clear, 2 Litre plastic bottles for Play & Inquiry experiments. If you have them in your recyling bin, can you drop them in to Elke please?

We are also trying to capture cabbage moths to observe their life cycle in action. If you have any in your vege patch, can you bring some in please? 

Walkathon Wednesday 1st June

Luisa is very short of helpers to assist with preparing, cooking and serving sausages for the Walkathon this Wednesday. If you are able to assist, please see Sia, Sheryal or myself or alternatively, contact Luisa directly.

Please remember the Green Sponsorship forms are due in on Wednesday so that teachers can tally the number of laps children complete. The forms will be sent home on Wednesday afternoon.

Many thanks!

Walkathon: Wednesday 1st June

This is the last weekend students have to collect sponsorship for this year's annual PHPS Walkathon. Please make sure that forms are returned to your child/ren's homegroup teacher so that the forms can be tallied at the end of the day and returned home. Students have selected their preferences for sausage and fruit which they will have once completing the walk. Please read the green sheets for information from Luisa and assistance/parent help required on the day.

Additional sponsorship forms are available on the information trolley at the entrance to the Grade 1 Neighbourhood if somehow you missed out on getting them last week.

Thank you in advance!

Melbourne Museum Excursion

Yesterday the Grade 1 teachers booked our Year 1 Neighbourhood into the Melbourne Museum. We are booked in on Wednesday 22nd June and will be leaving at approximately 10 am and returning to school at 2:15 pm. Further details of the learning experiences we'll be viewing there will be confirmed shortly.

Readers' and Writers' Notebooks

Whilst students are still on occasions, working on Mathletics during class times can parents remind students to have their Notebooks in their school bags everyday? This includes the plastic document communication wallet where home reading material and notices are transported between school and home.

Teachers will be aiming to review students' reading and writing reflections on Tuesday morning in homegroups and with their peers.

Please continue to list the books and reading students complete in their home reading.

The Year 1 Neighbourhood blog address will be pasted in the inside cover of these books in the next week or so.

Play Inquiry Update

This week, students selected their Play Inquiry focus areas that they will be investigating for the remainder of the term.

Sia will be scaffolding students' learning of change in groups comprising of: Cartooning; ICT; 3-D Box Panels and Natural Collections.

Sheryal will be exploring change and means of communicating change through Music, Movement and Drama

Elke will be exploring scientific ideas of change through experiments involving Materials & Decomposition; Life Cycles; Planting and Weather patterns.

Please view the Play Inquiry Board in the Hall area to see which area of interest you child/ren have selected.

Currently, I am collecting 2 Litre clear bottles to conduct experiments (with lids). If you are recycling these at home, could you instead pass them on to Elke?

Parent helpers are welcome to assist in the morning sessions of Play Inquiry (Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays) and for reading every afternoon from 12:10 pm Mondays-Thursdays. Please let your Home group teacher know which day/s you are willing to assist and remember to sign in and sign out at the completion of your time in the classroom.

Bikes parked near Neighbourhood 1 entrance area

Could parents please make sure that bikes are parked away from the Grade 1 Neighbourhood entry point? On Monday, students in their rush to get indoors, managed to get themselves caught on handlebars and often the area can get congested with the management of Play Inquiry equipment and people waiting to get indoors.

Many thanks,

Elke