Year One Team News

Hello Year One families,

Wow, the first four weeks have certainly flown by! The kids have all settled back into school life and it has been lovely getting to know them all and adjust to their new classroom routines. We are really proud of how well students are coming into the classroom and setting themselves up for the day independently. 

It was great to finally have face to face conversations with most of our Grade 1 families and as a collective we would like to thank you for your time during ‘Meet the Teacher’ afternoon. It was a great opportunity for us to learn more about our students.

Next week we will begin our Year 1 ‘Show and Tell’ program, where students will stand up and share parts of their life with the class. Each student will have an assigned day to speak about the weekly topic. A note will be going home. If you have any further questions about this, please speak to your child’s teacher. 

Curriculum Focus: Weeks 5 - 6

Reading: We are continuing the Little Learners Love Literacy program that students commenced last year in Prep. During this term we will be revising stage 7.1 of the program which focuses on vowel graphemes. Our focus for week 5 will be the two syllable words that end in the phoneme ‘e’ represented by the grapheme ‘--y’, and our focus for week 6 will be the phoneme ‘i’ represented by the graphemes ‘igh’, ‘ie’ and ‘-y’.

Writing: Writing ideas will be inspired through the picture books we read. We will be working on remembering our capital letters and full stops and having a go at our spelling by using the great strategies that we learned in Prep. 

Numeracy: The next two weeks we will continue our focus on place value and counting up to and beyond 120.

Inquiry: We are discussing what it means to keep our community, body and mind safe. Students will be looking at a variety of ways to ensure we have healthy minds, bodies and being safe in the community.

Willy Kids/Respectful Relationships: Our Willy Kids focus for weeks 5 and 6 is “Willy Kids are problem solvers. We will be discussing how problem solving means being brave enough to have a go, even when something feels challenging. Willy Kids show persistence and don’t give up easily. They understand that mistakes are an important part of learning. 

Warm regards,

The Grade One Team –  Steph Keswick (1K) & Emma Chang-Kum (1C)