Grade 1

Literacy

In the past fortnight, students have begun learning about plurals, specifically using the suffix ‘s’ to show when there is more than one of something. The Grade 1’s engaged in multiple activities to extend their knowledge of this. This included activities that allowed students to practise reading, spelling and writing simultaneously. In addition to this, students also learned about new digraphs such as ‘ar’ and ‘or’.

Writing

Over the last 2 weeks, students have been delving into the story of “The Pencil”. The story tells of a talking pencil who can draw anything to life. The pencil starts with drawing a boy ‘Banjo’, who wants a dog, who wants a cat to chase! The pencil draws a helpful paintbrush that brings colour to the world. But when issues start arising in the town, the pencil draws an eraser to fix all the problems away. However, the eraser starts erasing the whole entire town! And you’ll need to ask your child what the solution to this story was! During this inquiry, students have learnt the definition of the words: shiver, hesitate and ridiculous to help utilise in their writing. They participated in a writing learning task where they needed to write a recount story about the ‘The Pencil’, making sure to include the characters, setting, problem and solution. 

Maths

In the previous week students got creative to demonstrate their skip counting by 2’s skills. Students were able to create different crafts such as skip counting caterpillars! 

This week we have been working on improving our length of knowledge. Students have been using different vocabulary such as short, shorter and shortest to measure objects and shapes. 

Integrated

In Integrated, students have continued exploring the differences and similarities between leisure time today and in the past. This has included looking at how we can find out about toys in the past, which toys were popular and the main differences between past and present toys.