What's Happening in Grade One 

What’s happening in Grade One

What an amazing start to the year! The grade one students have been busy getting into a routine and forming positive friendships within their classroom.

Mathematics

The year one students have been using a range of concrete materials to help them learn about place value up to 120. They are using unifix, tens frames and bundles to learn about how many tens and ones are in a 2-digit number and learning to count large collections using efficient counting strategies.

Our students are also learning about Data Representation and Interpretation. They have been taking part in activities where they have collected information in the form of a tally and then represented this information in either column or picture graphs. Our students have also been learning about interpreting the information they can see in graphical displays. 

English 

In English students have been busy learning about narratives. We have established what an orientation is and have been including who, what, when and where in our narrative writing.  Students have also been exploring a variety of action verbs and describing words. They can list describing words that relate to texture, number, colour, position, shape and size. Our students have also been learning new sounds to support their decoding skills. The grade ones can now say that a digraph is when two letters make one new sound like sh, ay,and ch.

Social and Emotional Learning

As part of our Social and Emotional learning sessions students have been participating in the Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships program. This aims to develop students' social, emotional and positive relationship skills. We know that efforts to promote social and emotional skills in children and young people have been shown to improve health related outcomes and subjective wellbeing. Our Buzz awards system is also in full swing with students earning a buzz award when they display our school values of respect, resilience, teamwork and learning. 

We are looking forward to the year ahead. 

Grade One Teachers, 

Donna Iannunzio 1A (Wed, Thurs and Fri)

 Perri Telford 1B (Mon.-Fri) 

and Renata Cugliari 1A (Mon and Tues)