Year One Team News

Hello Year One families,

Swimming

There is already a great deal of excitement about our upcoming swimming program. Starting in Week 7, on Thursday we swim every day for 10 days at Sweeney’s Swim Centre in Altona. The event is open on Compass for you to provide consent and payment for your child to attend. Please also return the paper form that went home last week if your child has asthma. If you have signed up to help us please remember to complete the online Parent Helper Course and have a valid WWCC, sighted by the office to attend. We appreciate everyone who has signed on so far, we cannot run this program without your support, thank you!

Curriculum Focus: Weeks 7-8

Reading: During this term we will be covering stage 7.4 of the Little Learners Love Literacy program. Next week we will be learning about the soft ‘g’ and soft ‘c’ sounds when followed by an e, i or y. 

Writing: We are going to begin a new narrative piece, based around the theme of travel. This links nicely with our inquiry topic where we are learning about many different countries.  

Numeracy: Over the next two weeks we will be focusing on measurement. We will be measuring and comparing lengths, masses and capacities of objects using informal units. 

Inquiry:  Our topic this term is around Geography. So far we have ‘travelled’ Australia, England, France and Italy. During the remainder of the term we will be learning about other countries including their geography, cultures and celebrations. 

Willy Kids/Respectful Relationships: Our Willy Kids focus is “Willy Kids Display Perseverance". We will be learning to understand what perseverance is and discussing how to use it to overcome difficulties in the classroom, in the yard and at home. Our focus for Respectful Relationships this term is “Positive Gender Relationships”. 

Warm regards,

The Grade One Team –  Edan Bacegga (1B), Claire Davies (1D) & 

Kayleen Dumic & Anna Swan (1K)