Dear Parents,
Wellbeing Week
This week has been our school wellbeing week. Each day there has been a focus on a different kind of activity that can help to promote positive wellbeing for everyone at OLC. Some activities that have taken place so far are yoga, guided meditations, mindfulness tapping, mindfulness colouring, square breathing and expressing gratitude.
- Tomorrow, students are asked to wear their favourite T-Shirt that makes them feel good - it can be a band, a colour or one with a positive message on it...up to them! Please still wear their regular sports bottoms please.
Our Character Strength that we are focusing on this week is: Love of Learning.
Science
The children are really enjoying our topic of Living Things. Our silk worm moths have begun laying more eggs!!!
Last week we did an experiment to see if cut flowers are still living. Our question was Do they still drink water? To do this we put cut flowers in water containing dye. We kept one flower in plain water as a control. The dye being a variable. The children have loved watching the flowers gradually change colour.
English
As part of our Talk4Writing programme the children have been looking closely at sentences. They have identified and used adjectives and nouns. They have also written questions.
Tricky Words
You will notice that the children have brought home some highlighted tricky words to focus on. They may have mastered them when practising at home but sometimes they don't remember them when writing in the classroom. It is a good idea to practise writing all of the words they have learnt as often as possible as they are easily forgotten. They can be practised by calling them out randomly or even writing them in a sentence.
Maths
Last week we looked at the days of the week. We needed to be able to order the days of the week and tell what day it was yesterday and what day it will be tomorrow.
This week we will begin to look at the concept of sharing.
Have a wonderful week everyone,
Kristie Leahy and the PPL Team
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