Year 1 News

Pizza Making 

Our Pizza Making Day gave our students the opportunity to continue to demonstrate their reading and mathematical ability as they volunteered to read aloud the ingredients, utensils and the method involved to create the pizza dough whilst discussing the different fractions that could be made when slicing our pizzas! 

We had a great day cooking and eating our delicious pizzas.  

Growing Seeds 

Who needs a Farmer’s Market when you have a mini greenhouse in your classroom? 

 The students inquiring minds have led us down the track of looking at the process involved in growing plants from seed. The children had many wonderings at the onset of our Unit of Inquiry, exploring ‘Food Goes Through Many Stages of Production Before Reaching Us’.  

We have included focused guided reading activities within our literacy lessons, which have helped to explore many of the children’s wonderings, with mentor texts including “Just a seed” and “Bean Plant Lifecycle”.   

A fortnight ago the children learned how to germinate a seed. We followed the process to create a mini greenhouse, germinating bean seeds in a plastic bag on the classroom windows, our “Germination Station”.  

The children are completing a weekly diary where they are tracking the growth of the plant. This has tied in beautifully with our measurement lessons. Last Friday the children happily planted their germinated seeds into soil and were thrilled to see the majority had grown into seedlings over the weekend.  

Alongside our Mini Greenhouse, the children have also partaken in a planting experiment, growing seeds under a range of variable settings. As a class, we have experimented and made predictions about which variable/s will be successful in growing a bean plant. 

• Water and sunshine 
• Water, no sunshine 
• Sunshine, no water 
• No water or sunshine   

 Book Week  

The Year 1 students enjoyed participating in Book Week. Throughout the week they were immersed in many of the shortlisted books and completed many activities linked to each story. 

The students also learnt how to write a book review and shared their favourite books with their class. At the end of the week it was so exciting to see everyone dressed up as their favourite book character for our whole school parade. 

A big congratulation s to Mia R from 1D you won the colouring competition. She did a beautiful job.