Year 1 News

We have had another wonderful week in the Year 1 learning community! We have been reflective learners and thoughtful writers as we continued building important skills across our learning.

As resilient learners, we continued our mindfulness practices as part of The Resilience Project. After lunch each day, we take part in short moments of meditation to help us feel calm and ready for our afternoon learning. We have also been checking in with our feelings by moving our faces on the Zones of Regulation chart to show how we are feeling throughout the day. We then consider and apply different strategies to help ensure we are in the Green Zone. 

As writers, we continued engaging in recount writing. We wrote recounts about our long weekends and practised organising our ideas using the structure of a recount. We have been learning about the different parts of a recount and the types of language that help us retell events in the order that they happened.

Next week, we are looking forward to participating in our Peace Pole Ceremony, which will be a very special moment for our school community. We are also excited to begin exploring lots of new concepts across Literacy and Numeracy.

What’s happening this week?

• Tuesday 17th - School photos
• Tuesday 17th - St Patrick’s Day
• Friday 20th - Ride to School, Peace Pole, Ice-cream Day

This week, we will be learning about…

• Numeracy: Place Value - Number lines
• Reading: Predicting, Identifying Verbs and Nouns, Retelling
• InitiaLit: Revising learnt sounds and digraphs and building, reading and spelling words and sentences (Learnt sounds: m, s, t, a, p, i, f, r, c, o, d, h, e, n, g, l, k, u, b, j, w, ck, ll, ff, ss, sh, qu, ee, z, zz, ch, v, x, th, wh, y, ng, oo, ay), New sound: ai
• Writing: Writing structured recount texts
• Inquiry: Health
• Religion: St Patrick’s Day and Palm Sunday
• TRP: Peace Pole - Peace and Harmony 

Have a wonderful week!

Year 1 Team, 

Alycia Marsico, Chloe Wang and Olivia Bovolato