Wonderful1/2
0ne-two-rful 1/2s
Term 1 Week 2 2022 - Friday 10th February
What have we been up to?
The 1/2 teaching team would like to welcome back all our 1/2 students and parents to 2023. We have all had an amazing start to the year and are excited to see what the rest of the term and year bring! It has been wonderful to see so many happy faces at school, and hear about everyone’s holidays.
The students spent the first week working on a series of activities to jump start our school year, while focusing on our school and classroom culture. We centred our learning around the 7 Habits and how we can become leaders at school and at home. Each class has created their classroom mission statement as well as individually creating their Personal W.I.G (Widely Important Goal) for Term 1. These activities have had the students participating in classroom discussions, working and collaborating as a team (in pairs and small groups), as well as working independently. Week 2 saw the start of our learning in all areas. Students dove straight into Reading, Writing and Mathematics and enjoyed the beginning of our new phonics program Little Learners Love Literacy. This program will teach them letters and sounds in a sequence and provide them with the skill and knowledge they need to become successful decoders and readers. They also enjoyed learning AUSLAN, they have already learnt to sign Hello, Good, me, AUSLAN, happy, grumpy and sad.
The 1/2 team would also like to welcome Miss Luff who has joined the Le Page staff this year. The children are already forming beautiful connections with her, and she has enjoyed getting to know all of the students across our 1/2 classes. She looks forward to working with our students and families throughout the year.
Little learners this weeks focus was on the letter B - Ben the Bear
Here are some photo highlights from the fortnight that was!
1/2A – We loved meeting our new 3/4 Buddies!
What is coming up?
Reading
Over the next fortnight the 1/2 students will learn what they need to remember when they retell and sequence a story. They will retell, re-enact and draw sequences using sequence words such as first, next, then and last.
Writing
The text type the students will be focusing on over the next fortnight is Recount. The focus of our writing will be to identify and list vocabulary in a recount, engage in highlighting, editing and rewriting important parts of a recount, and using a variety of nouns, verbs and adjectives to enhance their writing.
Maths
To kick off our number and algebra exploration, students will be focusing on counting and modelling numbers. They will be investigating number sequences and discovering different ways that numbers can be recognised, modelled, represented and ordered.
Inquiry & Science
This fortnight the students will begin their Inquiry unit ‘My Learning Brain.’ They will look at the different emotions they can feel and what effects them, and look at distinguishing the difference between right and wrong. Science will see the students begin a biological science unit. They will learn the difference between living and non-living and how to classify into these categories.
Important reminders:
- Please don’t forget to bring in your hats and water bottles as we have had and will be having more hot days.
- If you have not bought any school supplies yet, please make sure you purchase them through our school supplier, KAKA Kids School Supplies.
- If you have any questions or concerns, please contact your child's classroom teacher through Compass or via the school email and it will be passed on to them.
- Specialist Days
- Monday – AUSLAN (with classroom teacher)
- Tuesday - Health, Art/Cultural Studies & Music
- Thursday - PE & Art/Cultural Studies
