VOICE MAIL: 1B: 3347 7159 tchalmers@bne.catholic.edu.au VOICE MAIL: 1W: 3347 7161 lsellwood@bne.catholic.edu.

au

VOICE MAIL: 1O: 3347 7171 lhillas@bne.catholic.edu.au

Week 5 Term 1 Week Beginning Monday 20 February 2012

Language Groups Parents, we would like to thank you for your support with morning reading and language groups. Please remember to sign in at the office before you come to the classroom. Late Arrivals and Early Departures Just a reminder that if your child is late and their class teacher has marked the roll, they will need to be signed in at the office. This also applies to children leaving early for appointments. The office needs to be notified before departure.

AWARDS
congratulations to:
1B Sofia and Jacob 1W Josh R and Sophia 1O Emmerson and Jiwon

These children will receive their awards at next weeks assembly.

Happy Birthday to Samuel, William and Adrian in 1Blue. We hope you all have a wonderful day!

WEEK OVERVIEW
LETTER/SOUNDS: o, u, l, f SIGHT WORDS: here, come MATHS: Counting on, relating number names and numerals RELIGION: Lenten Promises/ Ash Wednesday

Building Confidence in Children

Confidence is one of the most powerful, and one of the most elusive, qualities that helps create success in life. Building confidence means that we develop the courage to try out new things. Unless we are exceptionally talented, most of us approach new activities with a slight apprehension, which is usually followed by bewilderment and confusion. Our first attempts may be feeble but if we persist we often gain a sense of mastery. If however, someone rescues us when we are bewildered we learn that someone else can do what we cannot. This is why rescuing children when they are struggling with a new activity is toxic to confidence. There are several steps to creating and building confidence. In the coming weeks we will include steps that clinical psychologist Andrew Fuller suggests to create and build confidence.

SHOW AND TELL TOPIC: Bring in an item from the past. Tell the class how this item was used? HOMEWORK Revise sounds in their scrapbooks SIGHTWORDS AND HOMEWORK GRID
Have a WONDERFUL week. Tiffany Chalmers, Lauren Sellwood, Lorraine Hillas

Dates to Remember Monday School Assembly 2pm (Nano Nagle Centre) School Photos Wednesday 21 March

YEAR ONE TEACHERS