Grade 1 Fortnightly Snapshot - Term 2 Week 4
May 12 2021
Grade 1 News
We hope that all of the Grade 1 mothers enjoyed a happy and relaxing Mother's Day on the weekend.
By now all parents will have received their QR code to access SeeSaw, which we will be using as a digital portfolio this year. Please ensure you have downloaded the FAMILY app and logged in through this app, rather than the CLASS app which students used during home learning. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact class teachers.
English
Reading
Over the past fortnight students have continued to develop their ability to identify features of fiction texts including:
- Identifying the beginning, middle and end in various fiction texts,
- Summarising a story in time order including setting, characters, beginning, middle and end.
- Using a variety of transition words e.g. firstly, finally, when retelling a story.
Students have also been exposed to and supported to practise strategies to help improve their fluency and expression such as 'make your voice match the feeling' and reader's theatre.
Students will move on to learning about features of non-fiction texts in the coming weeks.
Writing
In writing this fortnight students have been developing their ability to expand sentences. This includes:
- Building vocabulary.
- Using conjunctions but and because to make sentences more interesting.
- Using question words.
- Correctly punctuating sentences with full stops and capital letters.
Students have also continued to build on their ability to write creativity and will move on to writing single paragraph informative texts.
Word Work
Students are continuing to revise the codes they learnt in Prep as well as adding new codes to their classroom working pack each week. Below is a PDF of the first 60 codes if you would like to continue revising these at home. If you click on 'present' and then click the code it will play the sound/s each one makes. A link to a video of the codes being said is also included below for students to revise.
The past fortnight students have been boot camping job 1, 2 and 3 of rule #7 silent final e (SFE).
#3: SFE jumps over the consonant to make the vowel say it's second sound.
#2: SFE stops v and u from being at the end of an English word. “Job 2, v and u.”
#3: SFE makes c and g say their second sounds. “Job 3, c and g.”
Students have boot camped the following rules so far this year:
Rule #1 - q doesn't go anywhere without u.
Rule #6 - y replaces i at the end of an English word.
Rule #2 - c makes its second sound /s/ when followed by e, i or y.
Rule # 3 - g usually makes its second /j/ when followed by e, i or y.
Rule # 26 - Capital Letters
Handwriting and letter formation is a focus during each boot camp session as this year we are trialing print instead of Victorian Modern Cursive.
Below you will find the handwriting script and the codes for your own use at home.
Mathematics
This fortnight students have been learning about all things length, including:
- Measuring and comparing lengths of objects.
- Measuring and comparing heights.
- Ordering heights from tallest to shortest.
- Length investigation - The Longest Finger
In order to consolidate, learn and extend the above skills, students participated in numerous hands on Maths experiences as you can see from the photos below.
Students will move on to addition in the coming weeks.
Unit of Inquiry
As part of our How We Express Ourselves unit, this fortnight students inquired into:
- Similarities and differences students have in cultural practices with their classmates.
- What 'Dreamtime' stories mean.
- Features of Dreamtime stories.
- Comparing students culture to Aboriginal Culture.
- How stories help us understand things we have in common.
Next fortnight students will move on to our Sharing the Plant unit of inquiry where they will explore how 'Actions Have Consequences.'
Well-Being
As part of our weekly well-being sessions students have been learning about how to be learning how to be a gracious loser and will move onto how our actions can have positive and negative consequences.
Reminders
*Lapathon - Thursday 20th May
*Queen's Birthday Public Holiday - Monday 14th June
*Last Day of Term 2 & Fun Lunch - Friday 25th June
Grade 1 Team
Tessa Woodgate 1A
Nicole King 1B
Zoe Picton/Jewel Jackson 1C
Michelle Flood 1D
Amy Chadwick HU