Grade 1/2 News

Key Dates: 

• Friday 13th June - Capital Theatre Bendigo - 'Imagine' - Alison Lester 

Maths Challenge

Well done to 3/4 Mitchell for winning last fortnight's Maths Challenge!

Please find this fortnight's challenge below:

What we have been up to...

For reading, we enjoyed sharing two texts by the author Alison Lester. Last week, we followed the adventures of Wild and Woolly in The Journey Home. This week, we read Imagine and tomorrow, we look forward to watching it come to life on stage at The Capital Theatre.

Our Writing focus for the past two weeks has been procedural texts. One activity involved the students writing a procedure on how to make a sandwich. We chose some of these samples to test out how well the steps were written and we learnt that it is important to be very clear with our instructions.

In Mathematics, we continued our focus on efficient addition strategies such as doubling, counting on, bridging to ten and tens partners. The students also conducted a number of surveys to collect data and then they presented their findings in the form of a bar graph. 

Students have continued to explore different Science concepts over the past two weeks. Last week, it saw us try to blow up a balloon using bicarbonate soda and vinegar. The students were very excited with the results.

Photos from the last fortnight...

Upcoming Learning

Reading, Writing and Spelling: 

Our focus texts for week 9 and 10 are:

• The Most Magnificent Thing
• The Patchwork Bike

Students will practise using the reading strategies predicting, making connections and also tuning into interesting vocabulary, whilst reading these books.

Our Writing lessons will continue looking at procedural texts.

Phonemes and Heart words for the remainder of term 2 will include: 

Week 9: eer

💗 – dear, hear, year

Week 10 and 11: Revision will be based on student need.

Mathematics: In Mathematics, we will begin learning about subtraction and investigate its links with addition.

Topic: We are coming towards the end of our Stimulating Science unit. Next week, we will be exploring the idea of sound and creating a string telephone.

Respectful Relationships: As part of our Respectful Relationships lessons, students will be completing the final activity of the topic by creating a list of trusted people that they can go to for help.