Year One Team News

Hello Year One families,

We cannot believe we are heading into Week 7 already! The Year One team would like to extend a big congratulations to our students for the stamina and resilience they have displayed so far this term. 

Life Education

We had the pleasure of hosting Vanessa from Life Education Victoria this week to work with our Willy Kids. We spent our session learning about how to keep ourselves safe when out and about. The students learnt about the times where calling 000 is necessary and when it is not. The important homework that was given after this session was for the students to learn their address and one phone number of a parent. It would be great to follow up with this, so that your children have the confidence to step up in an emergency. Of course, Harold the Giraffe made an appearance, which is always a highlight.

Curriculum Focus: Weeks 7 - 8

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 7 will be the phoneme ‘o’ represented by the grapheme ‘oa’, and our focus for week 8 will be to revise the phonemes and graphemes we have learnt so far this term.

Writing: Writing ideas will be inspired by our work in Inquiry and through the picture books we read. We will be working on sentence structure and 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: We will be looking at learning about and practising different strategies to represent and solve subtraction problems.

Inquiry: We are investigating and learning about what we can do to be healthy and safe whilst we are at home, at school and in the community.

Willy Kids/Respectful Relationships: Our Willy Kids focus for weeks 7 and 8 is “Willy Kids are considerate". We will be discussing what it means to be considerate and we can demonstrate it towards others. Our focus for Respectful Relationships this term is “Emotional Literacy”. We have been learning and will continue to focus on recognising and identifying our own emotions and describing situations that may evoke these emotions.

Warm regards,

The Grade One Team –  Zoe Kitchen & Anna Swan (1K), Edan Bacegga (1B) & Claire Davies (1D)