✨Mrs Sim’s Weekly Update – Term 1 – Week 5 ✨

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Dear Parents,

Happy Friday to you all! I hope you have all had as much fun as we have had this week! 🙂 Let’s take a look at our learning and events from this week.

 English

This week, we planned our stories for the upcoming writing assessment. Each story has a clear objective, and this unit’s is to write a version of Troll Swap by changing the main character. The children have carefully planned their stories and drafted detailed beginnings. Next week, we’ll continue with the middle and ending, then practise before the final assessment.

 Maths

  • Year 1 reviewed their first unit on Place Value. We will start our next unit Addition and Subtraction within 10 next week.
  • Year 2 completed their assessment and started the next unit:
    • Aut.2.1 – Bonds to 10
    • Aut.2.2 – Fact families (addition & subtraction bonds within 20)
    • Aut.2.3 – Related facts

 IPC

We read the beautiful book The Colour Monster and explored how different lines in drawings can express emotions. Using oil pastels, the children created their very own colourful monsters representing different feelings. The results were fantastic and tied in perfectly with our field trip. Due to the Chuseok Event, we didn’t have IPC on Wednesday.

Field Trip

What a day we had! The centre was fantastic and the children really enjoyed exploring emotions through messy painting, creating clothes for characters, and designing outfits to show different feelings. The painting turned out to be much messier than I expected, so I was very glad we had worn clothes that could get dirty. After the workshop, we went on to Ochigol Park where the sun was shining and the children had such a wonderful time. They loved the zip line, climbing the giant spider web, chasing mantises, and even finding “chocolate treasure” in the sand. I had also prepared a small toy for them to play with at the park, which was a big hit, though perhaps a little noisy! It was such a joyful day and a perfect fit with our IPC learning.

We took lots of pictures for you all, so I have collated them in this folder. Enjoy! 

🌸 Community

It was wonderful to see some of you at the Chuseok Festival—thank you for coming! After such an exciting week, I’m sure the children will sleep very well tonight.

Have a lovely weekend and see you all next week!

Mrs Sim 🙂