Year 1 Update

Upcoming Learning:

English	To revise the digraphs in Stage 6 of the LLLL sequence. To investigate fairytales and identify the key elements such as the characters, setting, problem and solution. To write simple sentences using correct punctuation and adjectives.
Maths	Week 4 - To compare and measure the length of different objects using informal units and appropriate language (longer/shorter/longest/shortest) Week 5 - To form numbers correctly and subitise regular and irregular sets of numbers.
Inquiry	Week 4 -To identify the Australian Aboriginal flag and understand what the colours represent. Week 5 - To learn that in Australia there are Australian Aboriginal communities who use different symbols to tell stories.
SEL	To identify emotions that others may be feeling and make suggestions about how people might feel when others exclude them from play. To also suggest ways to help classmates play well together.

Teaching phonics and reading through Little Learners Love Literacy (LLLL)

At Hillsmeade PS, we utilise the LLLL framework in our Prep-Year 2 classrooms to support literacy development. It is an explicit and sequential literacy approach for teaching children to read, write and spell with confidence based on the Science of Reading – a huge body of research that is currently prominent in educational circles. It explicitly introduces phonemes (sounds) and corresponding graphemes (written representation of sounds). It teaches children how to blend these phonemes together to read words. Concurrently, students learn to correctly form graphemes and use their letter-sound knowledge to spell and write words.
LLLL has seven stages. Whilst working in a particular stage, students will have access to texts, known as decodable readers, that contain words based predominantly on those sounds. This means students can use their knowledge to decode the words promoting fluency and developing their confidence. These readers will be utilised in the classroom and for home reading. Look out for these decodable texts in their reader bags.