Connect: Year 1

Week 5 already, WOW! This Term is well and truly in full swing and we have another full week ahead. We are all looking forward to book week and can't wait to see everyone at the parade on Wednesday. 

IMPORTANT DATES AND REMINDERS

LITERACY

Our phonics focus this week has been 'oi' 'oink oink' and 'oy', 'Foy's jelly joys'. Students have been practising identifying fact and fiction sentences along with writing their own. Students have been diving into the mentor text Bin Chicken by Jol and Kate Temple. Performing their own Bin Chicken play students put their punctuation (.?!) knowledge into action performing with expression. 

We are so lucky to have bought Little Learners books as take-home readers. Your child should have brought one home. We will only send them home in a satchel so that they will be

protected. The books are ones they have read before and they will change weekly.

NUMERACY

We have been exploring place value and how understanding the number of tens and ones helps us to order numbers and place them on a number line. Practising splitting, or partitioning, two-digit numbers into tens and ones using physical materials, drawings and number sentences has let students visualise and solidify this learning. Students have loved playing 'Double Hat-trick', take a look at the link below to give it a go at home!

INQUIRY

Our focus is on Chemical Science seeing students looking at different materials that change shape. We have been researching different materials that can be bent or stretched to change shape. Making Mr Squiggle pipe cleaner art was a fun way to explore bending and stretching students' creative thinking. 

WELLBEING

We are continuing to focus on different strategies to help us stay calm when we are faced with things that may have us feeling frustrated, upset or angry. Children are learning these important social skills inside and outside of the classroom. 

Bullying No Way!

For Bullying No Way Week, we saw a performance encouraging students to be a good friend as well as staying true to themselves. In class, we have explored this further by participating in team-building activities and discussing what we can do if we ever experience bullying. Take a look at 1B's classroom chain they made, full of kind messages!

Year 1 love the library! 

Pizza Lunch! Yum!

Shanae, Michelle, Julieanne and Fiona.