Around the Traps - Foundation/1

Literacy

In Literacy this week, our shared text in the F/1 class is the wonderful book Alexander’s Outing by Pamela Allen. Students enjoyed listening to the story and have centred their writing around this text. We started by discussing the location and the setting of the story followed by character profiles. We are using ‘colourful semantics’ to help construct our sentences. Students have been using prompts such as who? what doing? where? what? like? why? joining words and feelings to add more detail to their sentences.

Maths

Foundation

This week we are becoming familiar with our ‘Friends of Ten’. We have experimented with different combinations of making 10 using two different coloured counters. We will thread beads onto pipe cleaners to show the different combinations 10 can be made.

Grade One

We have been learning about the patterns we can see on a 100s chart when we skip count. This has been helping us to play a range of games involving skip counting. It is important that students are able to see these patterns on the 100s chart. Students have also been learning about 2D shapes and have created their own picture design using a range of shapes.

Inquiry

Students have continued to think about what it means to grow older this week by thinking about questions they have about getting older. We had some great discussions about different things that might happen when they grow older. Here are some of the wonderings the students came up with…

I wonder if I will be a mum. - Scarlet H

I wonder when I can be a professional cricket player. - Leo B

I wonder if I will live in America. - Hunter I 

Will I ever be a gymnastics star? - Eve M

Will I be a teacher like my Mum and Dad? - Charlie B

Will I be a famous singer? - Freya H

I wonder if I will ever jump out of a plane. - Aidan K

RE (Religious Education)

Foundation and Grade One students have begun their new unit ‘Sharing with Others our Call to Mission’. We have begun this unit by listening to some stories about what it means to share, as well as what we can pass on to others. Students came up with some lovely ideas that we could pass on to others such as smiles, friendship, happiness, food, love, presents and kindness.