Year One

Communicating with the Year One Team

We look forward to partnering with you in 2022, and welcome your input:

Laura Kelly (Class 1A) Laura.McQueen@education.vic.gov.au

Andrew McFarlane (Class 1B) Andrew.McFarlane3@education.vic.gov.au

Inquiry Overview - Term Two

The Inquiry unit for Term Two is 'The Senses'. Throughout this unit students will develop their understanding of different objects, and how they are made of different materials.

They will learn to consider theses objects and materials relate to the 5 senses of sight, sound, smell, touch and taste. Through scientific inquiry, students will investigate how different materials can be changed or combined with other materials in a variety of ways, including by mixing, and learn to use their senses to investigate these changes. Throughout this term students will engage in different scientific experiments and will complete their own science journal to record materials, their observations and outcomes.

Mother's Day Celebrations

On Friday 6th May 2022 we held our Mother's Day activity afternoon. It was so lovely to have many mums, grandmas, aunties, sisters and special visitors join us on this day.

Students enjoyed visiting the classrooms and participating in a range of activities with their very important visitors.

Tricky Words

Through the InitiaLit program a range of Tricky Words are taught. These words are referred to as Tricky Words as they cannot be spelled by sounding them out. Due to the nature of the program, the sets of Tricky Words get taught in groups of three and are taught during any given lesson.

Please keep an eye on Compass for the posting of the most current set of Tricky Words that have been taught. You can assist your child at home by practice sky writing them. Each set of Tricky Words contains six words. We will expose the students to the words first at school and then post once the students are familiar with them.

Take Home Readers

Every Monday, all Year One students will be given two InitiaLit Readers to take home and read nightly. Research has shown that the repeated reading and exposure of texts can boost student's confidence when reading and consolidate their reading skills. We urge families to read the InitiaLit readers daily to help support the learning that is happening within the classroom.

Readers will be given on a Monday and are required to be returned on Friday the same week.

If you can, please encourage your child to read other books too.

InitiaLit readers can also be accessed online. The login details are the same as last year. If you need your child's login details please email your child's classroom teacher.