YEAR 1

FROM THE CLASSROOM

It has been another busy and exciting week in Year 1. Thank you to all the families for coming to our Student Led Conferences. The students really enjoyed sharing their work with you.

In Mathematics, students have been exploring location and positional language. They coded BeeBots to follow a path and created maps for students to follow. Students played games and used ordinal language to describe who came first, second or third.

In Writing, students have continued learning our new text 'Hansel & Gretel'. They are exploring using adjectives to describe the time of day, weather and setting. Students used sentences from the text as a model to create their own sentences. They also identified sentences from the text that used our focus toolkits.

In Inquiry, students have continued investigating our new unit 'Schools Then and Now'. Students participated in some fun 'olden times' games such as hula hoops, hacky sacks, jacks and hopscotch. They had a great time playing with others and learning the rules for these games.

FROM THE STUDENTS

"What did you enjoy this week at school?"

"I liked PE because it has been very fun." - Essa

"I have enjoyed doing the content review in Maths." - Lebron

"We liked marbles in Inquiry because we enjoyed flicking them out of the circle" - Sofia & Ibraheem

"My favourite game in Inquiry was hacky sack because it was my favourite and I just liked it." - Shiraz

"I liked the hula hoops in Inquiry because I can do tricks and spin them." - Mehrish

"I liked playing Jaxx in Inquiry because it was hard and I liked it because if it was easy, you'd get bored." - Hardev

LEARNING INTENTIONS FOR NEXT WEEK

READING

• I can find interesting words in books.
• I can find the main idea from a story.
• I can retell the story in my own words.

WRITING

• I can use toolkits to innovate sentences.
• I can pile up 2 or 3 adjectives to describe a setting.
• I can use commas and the conjunction ‘and’ to separate words with similar ideas/meanings.
• I can identify different parts of the story and the toolkits being used.

PHONICS

• I can revise stage 7.3 sounds.

• I can read and write words with the stage 7.3 sounds.

   

MATHS

• I can use the ‘counting up’ strategy to solve addition problems.
• I can count on to find the missing number.
• I can solve addition worded problems. 

WELLBEING

• I can ask adults for help.
• I can explain what the problem is when asking for help.
• I can use the ‘Sparks of Joy’ toll when feeling overwhelmed.

REMINDERS  

COAL CREEK EXCURSION | WEDNESDAY 29TH O JULY

Permission and payment due on Compass by Friday 24th July.

TAKE HOME READERS

We are missing a large number of our levelled take home readers. Please have a look around your homes for any hiding books to return to school.

NIGHTS OF READING

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