Grade 1/2 News

Reminders: 

• Zoo Excursion: Tuesday, 5th September - please see the event details on Compass and complete the permission as soon as possible.
• Estimation Challenge: Tomorrow we will have our first Estimation Challenge (please see Compass post from Monday for further details). We are looking forward to seeing the challenge play out at Assembly and discussing in our grades next week who made our closest estimation!

What we have been up to...

During the last fortnight students have continued to develop their knowledge of place value. On Friday they solved a problem where there were unknowns to the equation e.g. _4 + _ =_ 0 students could work individually or with a partner. It was great to the see the collaboration and the students work together to find a pattern or rule to follow.

Our Topic lessons have involved the exploration of sound including pitch, volume and the way sound travels.

Today the students have enjoyed their experience at the Ecolinc Incursion titled 'What keeps us up?' Students enjoyed exploring the concepts of vertebrates and invertebrates and checking out lots of the bugs and creatures on display.

Learning in Week 5 and 6

Mathematics: Over the next few weeks students will be learning about Subtraction. They will focus on using their place value and addition knowledge to support them to solve subtraction problems.

English: During reading sessions students will be comparing and contrasting different texts looking at the similarities and differences between them. We will focus on the phonemes 'th' (as in thin) and ng (as in ring). Students will be practising the words because, want, friend and favourite. 

In Writing lessons, students will be learning about the structure and features of narrative texts and will be practising the planning, drafting, editing and publishing process.

Topic: Our topic sessions will have continued focus on sound but we will also begin to introduce the concept of light. Students will look at things which translucent, opaque and transparent. 

During Fire Education students will be learning about smoke alarms and talking about a family fire escape plan - this could be a great conversation to have or continue at home.

Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR): In Respectful Relationships lessons students will be focusing on the concept that 'labels are for jars not people'.