Year 1

Welcome to our Classroom Communication

Specialist Timetable

Monday - P.E. with Mr Asquith.

Tuesday - Art with Ms Wilson.

Wednesday - Japanese with Sensei Mizushima.

Friday/Tuesday - S.T.E.M. with Mrs Williams - Alternates fortnightly

St Vincent de Paul Food Drive

Wow! What a pleasure it was to go with the students to pick out food donations for St Vincent de Paul. So much thought and careful consideration went into our purchases and we know that it will be greatly appreciated by the people in our community. A huge thanks to our families for their generous donations!

Junior Excursion

Last Friday we embarked on our Junior Excursion to Kidstown and to see the stage performance Imagine. Students thoroughly enjoyed the experience to go on a bus and use up all their energy at on the Kidstown equipment. The performance Imagine was a great adaptation and students were in awe of what they saw. Apologies we don't have many pictures.

Readers

Just a reminder that students should be reading each night for approximately 10 minutes. We change our readers weekly on the day that we have our reading group. I know some people are finding a book to read weekly very repetitive and this is an essential part of the InitiaLit program. The science of learning cannot stress enough that repetition is key to consolidating learning. Don't forget that you can read the reader in separate parts over the night and alternate with the sight words that have been sent home. More sight words will be coming home this week. 

English

InitiaLit has continued to expand our knowledge of the types of words we read and the words we use with our writing. Over the past few weeks we've been learning about base words and suffixes. A suffix is a letter or letters added to an end word to change its meaning, for example cat+s, jump+ing, etc. The suffixes that we've been working on are s/ed/ing.

Throughout the weeks we've been exploring the some of the following digraphs and trigraphs; 'er' as in fern, 'ar' as in star, 'or' as in fork, 'ore' as in snore, 'ir' as in stir, 'ur' as in surf.

Storybook Lessons

Our Storybook lessons have looked at The Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack. The word study words in this text were adverb - swiftly, adjective - pale, verb - moving.

We've also spent quite a bit of Time investigating 'Imagine' by Alison Lester in preparation for our excursion. We can truly look at each page and find something new in the illustrations. 

Mathematics

During Mathematics we've been fascinated with the concept of time. Time in terms of an event taking a short or a long duration of time. We've had quite a few heated discussions concerning how long it might take to buy a loaf of bread down the street. Some students deciding if they went with mum it would take a loooong time because she likes to chat with everyone and if they went with dad it would be much quicker because he doesn't like talking as much. 

We also considered events that might occur in days, weeks, months and years.

Don't Flush It!

It is that time of year again when we enter GV Water's water week 'Don't Flush It!' initiative. The clip below if is a fun story of what happens if we flush things that should go down the toilet. 

Students were invited to design a toilet paper roll label with a 'Don't Flush it!' message on it. Each grade has 3 finalists that will be entered into the major draw. Below are our finalists depicting items that shouldn't be flushed down the toilet. Items such as rocks, goldfish, undies, and your cat!

Religion

Over the last few weeks we've moved on to your new topic of Baptism. We've explored the way in which Jesus was baptised in the river Jordan by John and how it is similar to the way in which people are baptised today. We've explored the symbols of baptism; oil, white garment, water and candle flame. We've even done some virtual tours of other churches to see all the different baptismal fonts. Some of us were stunned to see that some churches use a pool!

Inquiry 

We have become fully qualified cartographers! We have thoroughly enjoyed looking at maps online and working out where we are in the world and we've even constructed our own maps of Binney St. 

BOOK WEEK UPDATE

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Katherine & Karen